The Dave Bennett Quartet

$10.00$25.00

Saturday, August 19 | 7:00pm | BIC Center Theater

We are pleased to bring island favorite Dave Bennett and his Quartet back to the BIC Center Theater to continue our 2023 summer season as part of the second annual Beaver Island Jazz Series. Dave and his band delight audiences of all ages and musical tastes–from boogie woogie to country to pop to jazz.  “We always look forward to our summer visits to the island,” says Bennett. “The BIC Center is a great venue and island audiences are second to none!”

Ticketed Reserved Seat Event. Adults $25 – Children 13 & under $10. Seating selection made at checkout.

Description

Dave Bennett doesn’t fit the mold.

For starters, you don’t find many jazz clarinet players who name Alice Cooper, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Chris Isaak among their influences. You won’t find many musicians who are equally conversant with the music of Benny Goodman (the “King of Swing”) and Roy Orbison (“The Soul of Rock and Roll”). In fact, you may not find even one other clarinet virtuoso who breaks from his Swing Era repertoire to sing rockabilly hits while accompanying himself at the piano or electric guitar.

In the early days of jazz, the clarinet joined with trumpet and trombone to create the music’s signature sound, and it ruled the roost in the Swing Era, when jazz was America’s popular music and dance- party soundtrack. If anyone can return the clarinet to its heyday, it’s Dave Bennett, who fuses serious jazz improvisation with a host of modern pop influences.

Dave has been a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops (2013) and has been featured with 35 other US and Canadian orchestras including Nashville, Detroit, Rochester, Omaha, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Orlando, San Antonio, Jacksonville, Portland, OR and Portland, ME.  Some of his annual appearances include The Elkhart Jazz Festival, The Suncoast Classic Jazz Festival, The Arizona Classic Jazz Festival, The Sacramento Hot Jazz Jubilee, The Clambake Music Festival, and The Redwood Coast Music Festival. He has been featured on NPR Radio’sJazz at Riverwalk.” He made his European debut in 2008 at the The Bern Jazz Festival (Switzerland) in a combo with jazz legends and Benny Goodman band alumni guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and vibraphonist, the late Peter Appleyard. In March 2022, Dave and his band performed to a sold out audience at New York City’s Birdland Theater.

Dave is a Mack Avenue Records artist. His 2013 CD “Don’t Be That Way” met with critical acclaim.  His second release, Blood Moon, which features five originals and six pop/jazz covers, reached No 24 on the Billboard Jazz charts in 2018.  During the 2020 Pandemic, Bennett composed new music that will be featured on his first album of rock originals entitled “Nowhere Fast,” which will be released June 7, 2022.  His music is featured in WVBI’s Jazz and Local Artists rotations.

The BIC Center is glad to add Dave Bennett’s annual appearance on the island to the new Beaver Island Jazz Series brought to you by the BIC Center, the Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance and WVBI.

 

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Event Details

Ticketing. You will receive an email confirming your transaction shortly after you make your purchase.  We will then process the transaction after which you will receive an additional two emails one of which will include your tickets to the event. Please allow one business day to process your transaction. (Purchases on the day of the performance will be processed as soon as possible or at the event.)  If you purchase your tickets with a check, we may not process the transaction until we confirm payment. More information on using the BIC Center Ticket Site is available at store.biccenter.org/tickettips

Admission to the Event. For admission to the event, please either (a) save the email with the tickets and bring it with you on a mobile device or (b) print out the ticket document attached to the email and bring it with you.

Safety Requirements. All events at the BIC Center will comply with health and safety requirements mandated by state and local authorities in effect at the time of the event.  Click here for current details. If necessary events may be moved to an outside location, postponed or canceled. Please understand that our first concern is the safety of our guests, performers and staff.

Special Accommodations.  The BIC Center Theater is equipped with a T-Coil assistive hearing system.  If you use hearing aids that are T-Coil capable, check with your audiologist about activating the that technology to provide hearing assistance in the BIC Center Theater.  If not, BIC Center provided headsets may be used with the system.  Just ask at the front desk.  If you need other accommodations to attend the event, please check with the BIC Center front desk at least 48 hours in advance so that we are able to determine if we will be able to meet your needs.  The BIC Center Theater is wheel chair accessible.

Date: August 26, 2023

Start time: 07:30 p.m. EDT

End time: 10:30 p.m. EDT

Venue: BIC Center Theater

Coordinates: 45.74730, -85.51932

Directions: Across from the ferry dock...

Phone: 231-448-2022

Email: info@biccenter.org

Donation to BIC Center & WVBI

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