Gateway Arts Council announces 2021-2022 season

With hits from Shenandoah, to Jefferson Starship, the Gateway Arts Council of Sidney has announced this season’s Presents Series, featuring reat songs, dynamic groups, family fun and moving performances.

“This season is going to be one of our best and we are excited to once again be bringing live music to the stage,” said Gateway Arts executive director Ellen Keyes.

David Osmond and the Osmond Chapman Orchestra Saturday, August 7,

Sidney High School,

7 p.m.

David Osmond, a vocal sensation in the mold of his famous uncle Donnie

Osmond, and award-winning bandleader Caleb

Chapman, saxophonist in the Neon Trees touring band, has joined forces with some of the hottest musicians in the country to form a fabulous Big Band that delivers electrifying performances. This thrilling concert will feature all your favorite songs as well as songs from the American Songbook.

This amazing duo delivers a fabulous show filled with everyone’s songs, swing tunes, current pop hits, and crooner classics. This remarkable live band is taking the nation by storm, performing to ecstatic audiences everywhere creating an exciting blend of pop, swing, Broadway, blues, American Standards, and rockabilly. If you like crooners such as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Michael Bublé, Bobby Darin, and Harry Connick Jr, as well as today’s biggest pop music stars like Justin Timberlake, Adele, and Bruno Mars, you’re going to love the Osmond Chapman Orchestra. No matter what style of music you enjoy, this band will rock your night.

Shenandoah

September 19, Sidney High School, 7 p.m. When country music lovers talk about the greatest groups in the genre, Shenandoah is always at the forefront of any discussion. Fueled by Marty Raybon’s distinctive vocals and the band’s skilled musicianship, Shenandoah became well known for delivering such hits as “Two Dozen Roses”, “Church on Cumberland Road” and “Next to You, Next to Me” as well as such achingly beautiful classics as “I Want to Be Loved Like That” and the Grammy-winning “Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart” duet with Alison Krauss.

Today that legacy continues as original members Raybon and Mike McGuire reunite to launch a new chapter in Shenandoah’s storied career. It all began when the guys got back together to perform a benefit concert for a friend battling cancer. “We saw how folks reacted,” Raybon says of the response to their reunion. “And then Jerry Phillips, son of legendary Sun Records producer Sam Phillips, said ‘You guys need to make a run at this. People still love what you do. You can tell by the reaction. There’s a lot of excitement in the air.”

Shenandoah had recorded nine studio albums and placed 26 singles on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The boys from Muscle Shoals have left a potent legacy at country radio with such enduring hits as “Ghost in This House,” “I Want to Be Loved Like That”, “Rock My Baby,” “Janie Baker’s Love Slave,” “If Bubba Can Dance (I Can Too)”, and “Her Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin”.

Jefferson Starship

Oct. 24, Sidney High School, 7 p.m.

The members of Jefferson Starship past and present have been exploring the mysteries of music for more than 1000 collective years, give or take. But who’s counting? Jefferson Airplane founding member Paul Kantner created Jefferson Starship with that collective spirit in mind and carried it with him throughout his life. Kantner knew that combining powerful creative forces, personalities, and talents could create something far greater than the sum of its parts. Between 1974 and 1984, Jefferson Starship released eight gold and platinum-selling albums, twenty hit singles, sold-out concerts worldwide, and lived out legendary rock and roll escapades.

Ciao Med Spa presents today’s Jefferson Starship, who remains dedicated to breathing new life into the living catalog of the Jefferson legacy, going to the edge, pushing the sonic boundaries, and staying true to the original spirit of the music, on and off stage. Times have changed, but the music remains as relevant as ever. Massive hits like” White Rabbit”, “Somebody to Love”,” Volunteers”, and “We Built This City” continue to reverberate in pop culture today.

Canadian Brass

Sunday, Dec. 19, Sidney High School, 7 p.m. With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass has truly earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group”. Canadian Brass has developed a uniquely engaging stage presence and rapport with audiences. Each of their concerts will show the full range from trademark Baroque and Dixieland tunes to new compositions and arrangements created especially for them – from formal classical presentation to music served up with lively dialogue and theatrical effects. The hallmark of any Canadian Brass performance is entertainment, spontaneity, virtuosity, and, most of all, fun – but never at the expense of the music.

With a discography of over 130 albums and an extensive worldwide touring schedule, Canadian Brass is an important pioneer in bringing brass music to mass audiences everywhere. They have sold well over 2 million albums worldwide. The Canadian Brass play to packed houses everywhere throughout the USA, Canada, Japan, and Europe. They have also toured Australia, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and South America. They were the first brass ensemble from the

West to perform in the

People’s

Republic of China

(where they returned for a

5-city tour to great acclaim in the spring of

2010 and several visits after this, including an appearance on Hunan TV for Chinese New Year) as well as the first brass group to take the main stage at the venerable Carnegie Hall. On numerous occasions Canadian Brass has been invited by the Canadian Government to play for visiting heads of states, becoming one of Canada’s greatest resources and musical ambassadors.

Millions of television viewers have had Canadian Brass in their homes with appearances on The Tonight Show, Today, and Entertainment Tonight and recently to more than 1/2 a billion viewers for Chinese New Year on China’s most popular station. They have appeared as guest artists on Evening at Pops with John Williams and the Boston Pops, Beverly Sills’ Music Around the World, numerous PBS specials, including a celebrated appearance on Sesame Street, and are frequent guests of many major symphony orchestras.

Sweet Caroline with Jay White

Sunday, April 24, 2022, Sidney High School, 7 p.m. The “Sweet Caroline Tour”: Experience the ultimate Neil Diamond Tribute! This show features the #1 Neil Diamond performer in the world, Jay White. For over 25 years Jay

White has performed all over the world while reflecting the stage persona of this

Rock & Roll Hall of

Fame Legend. Validation came from a

Las Vegas Riviera Showroom headliner, sparking national interest and recognition. In 2008 Jay was cast by Director Ron Howard to play Neil Diamond in the Academy Award Nominated film “Frost/Nixon”, and in 2012, was cast as the lead in a musical drama entitled “Beautiful Noise”. Jay has appeared on the "Tonight Show" with Legends in Concert, while Leeza Gibbons of “Entertainment Tonight” wrote: “Jay is uncanny and truly amazing!” White is also honored to have performed for First Lady Nancy Reagan, was a celebrity presenter at the world televised Miss Universe Pageant, received a 2003 “Outstanding Performance Award”, all while rubbing elbows with Hollywood celebrities like Kevin Bacon, William Shatner, and James Spader.

Tickets are on sale now; for pricing and more information on any of these programs, call the Arts Council at 937-498-2787 or visit www.gatewayartscouncil.org.