Community Calendar

Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. She shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova, where she built a fan base that follows her around the world to this day. Storm made her debut as guest vocalist with the band Pink Martini in April 2011 and has headlined with orchestras around the world.

Storm returns to the Lensic for her fourth performance in recent years—if you haven’t had the treat of seeing her yet, you don’t want to miss this. Her humor, humanity, and powerful voice are truly outstanding.

Australian music ensemble The Ten Tenors returns to the Lensic for an evening of ten-part harmonies and show-stopping choreography. The Australian group, celebrating its 30th year in 2025, has toured the world over with their irreverent and clever interpretations of operas and soulful ballads to classic rock and pop songs.

Since their very first performance in Brisbane in 1995, The Ten Tenors have established themselves as one of the world’s top vocal groups. What was meant to be a one-off corporate gig put on by a group of blokes from Brisbane’s Conservatorium of Music has turned into a musical touring juggernaut.

“The Okee Dokee Brothers are an absolute national treasure. These songs are just what the world needs right now.” — Minnesota Parent
Bring the whole family to see Grammy-winning folk and roots music duo The Okee Dokee Brothers! As childhood friends growing up outside of Denver, Colorado, Justin Lansing and Joe Mailander were always exploring the outdoors. They channeled their adventurous nature into wildly popular albums and have ended up in the hearts of American families everywhere. They’ve inspired countless, plaid-shirted fans to get outside, get creative, and sing in harmony along the way.

Trekking Mexico is a colorful educational show that takes audiences on a journey through Mexico’s historic and geographic regions, featuring folkloric music and dance. From the rumbling drums of Tenochtitlan to the sweet sounds of the stringed Jaranas of Veracruz, audiences are transported to the jungles of Tabasco and trek the mountains of Guerrero in this multimedia show. Bring the whole family and hop on board a joyful ride through this culturally rich country.

Mexico Beyond Mariachi is a multi-cultural ensemble of professional musicians, actors, dancers, and teaching artists whose love of Mexican traditions and way of life shines bright in every performance. Their philosophy is rooted in the belief that art and culture are integral to the development of every individual’s outlook on life.

60th Anniversary Farewell Tour
Rescheduled from February 26, 2026 to March 6, 2026.

Brazilian-born brothers Sérgio and Odair Assad have created a new standard of guitar innovation, ingenuity, and expression. Their exceptional artistry and uncanny ensemble-playing come from a family rich in Brazilian musical tradition and studies under guitarist/lutenist Monina Távora, a disciple of Andrés Segovia.

Their touring programs are a compelling blend of styles, periods, and cultures, including folk, jazz, and various styles of Latin music, as well as classical repertoire such as transcriptions of the great Baroque keyboard literature by Bach, Rameau, and Scarlatti, and adaptations of works by Gershwin, Ginastera, and Debussy.

With The Bad Plus, acclaimed artists Chris Potter and Craig Taborn revisit the formative repertoire of Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet. The project is not simply a tribute to one of jazz’s most influential ensembles, it’s a continuation of the American Quartet’s spirit: a fearless commitment to musical dialogue, emotional depth, and boundary-pushing improvisation.

Founding members Reid Anderson and Dave King, whose work with The Bad Plus helped redefine modern jazz, combine with Potter’s commanding tenor saxophone and Taborn’s brilliant piano to capture the raw, exploratory energy of the American Quartet while bringing their own distinct voices to the material.

It wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day without a visit from Lúnasa! These Irish music superstars return to the Lensic for the fourth time to bring joyous Celtic tunes to our stage. Not only are they standout musicians, they have a sense of humor that will leave you warmer than an Irish whiskey.

Lúnasa was formed in 1997 by members of some of the greatest Irish groups of the previous decade, an early review from Folk Roots magazine describing the band as an “Irish music dream team.” From the start, the band’s complex arrangements and unique sound reshaped the boundaries of traditional music and energized audiences.

The meeting of great minds usually happens behind closed doors, but for two of the world’s foremost bassists—Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer—the collaboration proved so fruitful that a duo album, But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody?, exploring their collective backgrounds, was born.

Now the duo is hitting the road, and we can’t wait to present them at the Lensic. The legendary bassists will meld McBride’s jazz and R&B fusion with Meyer’s bluegrass and classical sensibilities for what is sure to be an unforgettable performance of new compositions and timeless American standards.

The bass is traditionally seen as the bedrock of an ensemble, and no living bassists have done as much to bring the instrument from the background to the spotlight as Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer. Both belong to an elite cadre of musicians whose jaw-dropping virtuosity on their chosen instruments is matched only by the profound soul and emotion of their playing and the spectrum-wide range of their tastes.

Christian McBride has blazed an extraordinary trail as one of the most preeminent musicians of his time. Over the last three decades, the nine-time Grammy winner and Newport Jazz Festival Artistic Director has made momentous advances as a dynamic musician and recording artist, a prolific composer-arranger-producer, a distinguished curator of culture, and a dedicated educator and mentor.

Hailed by The New Yorker as “…the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his instrument,” Edgar Meyer’s unparalleled technique and musicianship in combination with his gift for composition have brought him to the fore, where he is appreciated by a vast, varied audience. His uniqueness in the field was recognized by a MacArthur Award in 2002.

“The Australian Chamber Orchestra is uniformly high-octane, arresting, and never ordinary.” — The Australian
The Australian Chamber Orchestra lives and breathes its craft, making waves around the world for its explosive performances that redefine orchestral music. With their fearless leader of thirty-five years, Artistic Director Richard Tognetti, the Orchestra is celebrating fifty years of invention, disruption, and unforgettable music-making.

The ACO performs more than 100 concerts each year, with programs that embrace celebrated classics alongside new commissions and ground-breaking collaborations working with artists and musicians who share their ideology.

Program:

Purcell, Fantasia upon One Note, Z. 745

Handel, Concerto Grosso in A major, Op. 6, No. 11

John Luther Adams, Horizon

Intermission

Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending (arr. Adam Johnson)

Mendelssohn Hensel, String Quartet in E-flat major (arr. strings)

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain returns to the Lensic by popular demand. Formed in 1985 as the antidote to mindless pop, egocentric rock, and the indulgent bluster of the music business, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain donned black tuxedos and began giving ‘concerts’ in tiny rooms above old pubs.

Four decades later, they’re still thrilling audiences with their off-beat humor and four-stringed virtuosity. There are no drums, pianos, backing tracks, guitars, or banjos, no pitch shifters or electronic trickery, just an astonishing revelation of the rich palette of orchestration afforded by ukuleles and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and old classics.

Come and celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this much-loved institution on a white-knuckle shopping-trolley dash through every kind of musical genre. From ABBA to ZZ Top, Tchaikovsky to Nirvana, bluegrass to Broadway, all played on the ‘bonsai guitar.