8 DAYS A WEEK: Your look at Valley Arts Tweet Published October 15. 2021 09:03PM Piano woman: Champian Fulton Trio, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15, “Jazz OnStage,” Miller Symphony Hall, 23 N. Sixth St., Allentown. Champian Fulton is regarded as one of the most gifted jazz musicians of her generation. Her piano and voice skills are widely recognized by peers and critics as possessing distinction and sophistication. Fulton, with 12 albums to her credit, was recognized as a “Rising Jazz Star” in Downbeat magazine’s critic’s poll and was named “Pianist and Female Vocalist” of 2019 in Hot House magazine’s readers’ poll. Her “galvanizing presence” (New Yorker) and her alluring musical presentation have made her “a charming young steward of the mainstream jazz tradition” (New York Times). “Champian is the most gifted pure Jazz singer of her generation” stated the Detroit Free Press. The trio is: Fulton, vocals and piano; Hide Tanaka, bass; Fuku Tainaka, drums. Tickets: https://www.millersymphonyhall.org; 610-432-6715 Tony Bennett tribute: “A Tribute to Tony Bennett with Eddie Bruce,” 1 p.m. Oct. 19, Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Lunch: noon. Eddie Bruce is a passionate fan of jazz standards, especially the music of Tony Bennett. Bruce is one of the United States’ foremost interpreters of Bennett’s music. His concerts include songs written by such legendary composers and lyricists as Sammy Cahn and Johnny Mercer and songs recorded by Bennett, Anthony Newley, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Frank Sinatra. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com; Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000; Penn’s Peak box office; Information: https://www.pennspeak.com; 866-605-PEAK; 877-SO-GO-EAT Brit songwriter: Robyn Hitchcock, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling, ArtsQuest Center, 101 Founders Way, SteelStacks, Bethlehem. Hitchcock, one of England’s most enduring contemporary singer-songwriters and performers, has recorded more than 20 albums. Of his most recent album, released in 2017, stated American Songwriter: “These 10 gems slither, rock, roll, glide and shape-shift, coalescing around Hitchcock’s typically anxious, strained but striking and immediately identifiable vocals.” He starred in “Storefront Hitchcock” (1998), a concert film directed by Jonathan Demme. Tickets: https://www.steelstacks.org; 610-332-1300 CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY ANNA YATSKEVICH CONTRIBUTED PHOTO CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
