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Looking for some inspiration for performances? We asked some of our staff to pick a performance that they are looking forward to most this season. Below are their responses. You can use their picks to build your subscription package!

Staff Picks

Bobby McFerrin

by Robin Baker, Associate Director of Community Engagement Bobby McFerrin has a special place in my heart. His album of lullabies, Hush, with Yo-Yo Ma is terrific and one I enjoy giving to new parents as a baby gift. His arrangement of the 23rd Psalm makes the congregation smile whenever we sing it in at my church. Bobby’s jaw-dropping musicianship and sheer virtuosity, along with his ease of getting the audience to participate with him, is always inspiring.
Bobby McFerrinMarch 1, 3pmSymphony Hall
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Sutton Foster

by Susanna Bonta, Program Book Associate

My teenaged daughter is a self-declared musical theater nut and was thrilled to see Sutton Foster as part of next year’s Celebrity Series line-up. She first discovered her as Fiona in Shrek on Netflix and can’t wait to see her perform live. In Ma’s words: “ I think she’s really authentic…she really loves what she does and it shows through her performances. I admire that.”

An Evening with Sutton FosterFebruary 1, 8pmSander Theatre Learn More

Chris Thile & Aoife O'Donovan

by Liz Rosenthal, Associate Director of Performance Operations I am so excited to welcome both Aoife O'Donovan and Chris Thile back to Boston this season for concerts in March at Sanders Theatre!
I first encountered Chris Thile as the mandolin virtuoso in the string band Punch Brothers, and quickly fell in love with their four-movement bluegrass suite "The Blind Leaving the Blind" from their album Punch. Given my background as a violinist, I love the similarities between mandolin and violin and how Chris brings together so many genres of music in one concert: classical, bluegrass, folk, pop covers, and more.
Chris Thile's participation in the Goat Rodeo Sessions (with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Stuart Duncan) helped me discover his friend and collaborator Aoife O'Donovan, an amazing singer-songwriter whose vocals blew me away on that CD, and I was immediately swept away into her solo albums and past work with her former Boston-based group Crooked Still.
Before I started working for the Celebrity Series, I was in the audience for her 2018 concert with her current group I'm With Her, and I can't wait to hear her backed by a string quartet in March!

An Evening with Chris Thile
March 18, 8pm
Sanders Theatre

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Aoife O'Donovan - Songs and Strings
March 12, 8pm
Sanders Theatre

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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

by Alec Bleday, Major Gifts Officer

It is simple. There are a couple of reasons why Béla Fleck and the Flecktones will rock, roll, and rehabilitate our winter-worn souls on March 27 at Berklee Performance Center.

Rocket Science: If you want to smile, play this album. On the Mount Rushmore of best banjo songs ever recorded, “Gravity Lane” is basically Teddy Roosevelt. Like a bull moose, “Gravity Lane” is a positive, powerful, and bold way to kick-off the epic album. The 2011 LP is only 12 tracks, but this collection of a dozen songs does something not many albums are capable of doing - it captures every mood one might face in a day. It’s a groovy, harmonious, and jazzed up celebration of the banjo. The Wooten Brothers: Whoa! Wait what? Two Wootens on one stage. Funk runs through the Wooten brothers’ blood, and no doubt it will be on full display in March. Victor Wooten is perhaps the greatest bassist ever to live. He is the living colossus of electric bass, a wise musical soul, and the reason why I chose to play bass when I was younger.Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
March 27, 8pm
Berklee Performance Hall
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

by Paul Sayed, Digital Marketing Manager

I cannot wait for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's performance this season. The musicians who make up the ensemble, David Finkel, Wu Han, Arnaud Sussman, and Paul Neubauer, should pique the interest of any music aficionado. However, music snobs like myself will notice that they will be performing Beethoven's Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Opus 1, no. 1.

Although the trio is not the first piece written or published by Beethoven, it is the first piece he published in this young adulthood as a proper Viennese composer. This piece is not Romantic Beethoven. It's Classical Beethoven fresh with the playful and delicate influences from Mozart and the wit and humor from his teacher Haydn. If you listen carefully, you can hear the musical foreshadowing of the expressive intensity that marked his Heroic period.

Beethoven's Classical period begins the forte E-flat major chord at the beginning of this trio and ends with the forte E-flat major chords of his Eroica Symphony. Get ready for goosebumps!

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
November 17, 3pm
NEC's Jordan Hall Learn More

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