Trailblazing Women of Country – A Tribute to Patsy, Loretta, and Dolly

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Trailblazing Women of Country features the music of Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton, who revolutionized country music and blazed a trail for future generations of female artists. With their chart-topping hits and record-breaking sales, they wove threads of contemporary womanhood throughout the tapestry of country music, resulting in unprecedented commercial success and earning each a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Through their singular voices and artistry, Patsy, Loretta, and Dolly defied restrictive gender norms, proving that women can be at once beautiful and strong, vulnerable, and powerful.

Tony DeSare

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Tony DeSare performs with infectious joy, wry playfulness and robust musicality. Named Rising Star Male Vocalist in Downbeat magazine, DeSare has lived up to this distinction by winning critical and popular acclaim for his concert performances throughout North America and abroad. From jazz clubs to Carnegie Hall to Las Vegas and headlining major symphony orchestras, DeSare has brought his fresh take on old school class around the globe.

Cécile McLorin Salvant

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Cécile McLorin Salvant, is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The late Jessye Norman described Salvant as“a unique voice supported by an intelligence and  full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings”.

Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, theater, jazz, baroque and folkloric music. Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor. 

The Moth Mainstage

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Curated events featuring five tellers who develop and shape their stories with The Moth directors. Moth stories are true, as remembered by the storyteller and always told live. Beyond theater, The Moth Mainstage is a community where entertainment and enlightenment merge.

Philip Glass Ensemble

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The Philip Glass Ensemble (PGE) comprises the principal performers of the music of Philip Glass. In 1968, Glass founded the PGE in New York City as a laboratory for his music. Its purpose was to develop a performance practice to meet the unprecedented technical and artistic demands of his compositions. In pioneering this approach, the PGE became a creative wellspring for Glass, and its members remain inimitable interpreters of his work.

Brooklyn Rider & Magos Herrera • Dreamers

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Hailed as “the future of chamber music” (Strings), the veteran string quartet Brooklyn Rider presents eclectic repertoire and gripping performances that continue to draw rave reviews from classical, world, and rock critics alike. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” With the bold and expressive singer Magos Herrera.

Ulysses Owens Jr.’s Generation Y

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Drummer. Educator. Author. Creative Entrepreneur. A drummer who The New York Times has said “take[s] a back seat to no one,” and “a musician who balances excitement gracefully and shines with innovation. Performer, producer, and educator Ulysses Owens Jr. goes the limit in the jazz world and beyond.

Alan Pasqua Trio

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Alan Pasqua is an American rock and jazz pianist, a Steinway Piano Artist, Grammy Nominee and Professor of Jazz Studies at USC Thornton School of Music. He has been a member of the bands of Bob Dylan and Santana, played and recorded with jazz artists including Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Paul Motian, Dave Holland, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Joe Henderson, Stanley Clarke, Gary Burton and worked with composers John Williams, Quincy Jones, Dave Grusin, Jerry Goldsmith and Henry Mancini.

Curtis Stigers

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An intimate evening of songs and stories by the critically-acclaimed, Emmy-nominated singer, songwriter, saxophonist and guitarist Curtis Stigers and his band. His string of hit singles, millions of albums sold, and a 28-year recording career aside, his commitment to artistic growth, and to bringing new tunes to the Great American Songbook, has become unparalleled in modern music. Along the way, this musician has redefined the constitution of contemporary jazz singing.