Jazz Cabaret Series Debuts at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will open its all-new Infiniti Cabaret Series with The Jazz Divas in Concert on November 1, 2008, followed by the Anat Cohen Quartet on November 22, 2008. Performed in the Center’s newly renovated atrium, these intimate, cabaret-style shows feature table seating for two to four people as well as wine and food available for purchase.

All tickets for The Jazz Divas in Concert are sold-out. Tickets for the Anat Cohen Quartet and other upcoming cabaret performances are available for $25 online at http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/ or through the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts box office at (480) 994-ARTS (2787). Seating is limited.

The Jazz Divas in Concert originated five years ago as a one-time Jazz in AZ performance and has since become a much sought-after act. It will showcase favorite Valley vocalists Delphine Cortez, Nancy Gee, Margo Reed and Sherry Roberson, performing the songs of jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan as well as the classic music of the American Songbook.

Israeli saxophonist and clarinetist Anat Cohen has toured the world as a member of Sherrie Maricle’s Diva Jazz Orchestra and won accolades for her highly original fusion of jazz, classical and world music. Cohen and her dynamic, young quartet will be joined by her brother, acclaimed trumpet player Avishai Cohen.

UPCOMING CABARETS
The Infiniti Cabaret Series at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will feature the following artists in 2009:

Esperanza Spalding – February 28, 2009, Saturday @ 8 p.m.
If “esperanza” is the Spanish word for hope, then bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding could not have been given a more fitting name at birth. Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops, a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren and a natural beauty that borders on the hypnotic, the 23-year-old prodigy-turned-pro might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music.

Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues – May 9, 2009, Saturday @ 8 p.m.
New fans and longtime followers of Corky Siegel’s blues career have been quick to embrace his genre-busting Chamber Blues, which feature Corky on harmonica and piano, The West End String Quartet and percussionist Frank Donaldson. The freshly innovative sound captures the sparkling qualities of classical music merged with the emotional melodic style of blues, all within an intimate chamber setting. Corky has boldly discovered the musical and cultural boundaries between two distinct and important musical forms, and just as boldly dissolved them.

LOCATION AND PARKING
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is located at 7380 East Second Street in downtown Scottsdale, four blocks south of Indian School Road and three blocks east of Scottsdale Road. The amphitheater is located on the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall at 75th Street and Main Street. Free parking is available in the public parking garage located to the west of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and directly behind Los Olivos restaurant on Wells Fargo Avenue. Additional free parking is available at the Old Town Parking Corral at East Second Street and Brown Avenue and at the Civic Center Library parking garage located on Drinkwater Boulevard at East Second Street.

ACCESSIBILITY
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers performance accommodations to enhance audience members’ experience, including: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation or live audio description with two weeks advance notice. Assisted listening devices and wheelchair seating are always available. Visit the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ Web site at http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/ or contact the box office at (480) 994-ARTS [TDD: (480) 874-4694] for further details. Please inquire about services when ordering tickets.

SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Opened in 1975, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents a dynamic, culturally diverse season of dance, jazz, classical and world music, theater and satire. Approximately 1,000 performances, educational programs, festivals and other events are showcased annually serving more than 300,000 people and contributing substantially to Scottsdale’s high quality of life and vibrant arts scene. Performances take place in the Center’s 838-seat Virginia G. Piper Theater (closed for renovation during the 2008-09 season) and 136-seat Stage 2 as well as the 2,200-seat amphitheater on the grounds of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall and the 326-seat Theater 4301 in the Galleria Corporate Centre. The Center’s youth education and outreach programs reach more than 40,000 school children each year, and its free programs are available to the entire public. Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts also produces the popular Scottsdale Arts Festival every March; Sunday A’Fair, a series of free outdoor music festivals held on Sunday afternoons from January to April; and Native Trails, a collaboration with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau that features free demonstrations of Native American arts and culture from January to April. Open daily and during performances, The Store @ Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers hand-crafted jewelry, accessories for the home, toys for imaginative young minds, recordings, books, greeting cards and more.

The Scottsdale Cultural Council, a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is contracted by the City of Scottsdale, Arizona, to administer certain City arts and cultural projects and to manage the City-owned Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Scottsdale Public Art Program. The programs of the Scottsdale Cultural Council are made possible, in part, by the support of members and donors and grants received from the Arizona Commission on the Arts through appropriations from the Arizona State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

HOW TO REACH US
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
7380 East Second Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Box Office: (480) 994-ARTS (2787)
TDD: (480) 874-4694
Web: www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org
E-mail: info@sccarts.org
Fax: (480) 874-4699

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