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THE 2013-2014 SEASON
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Night ater night o spectacular
perormances await you this year at the
Ferst Center. This intimate setting in
the heart o the Georgia Tech campus
provides the perect space to enjoy
music o all kinds, exquisite dance and
breathtaking artistry that inspires and
entertains you.
The 2013-2014 Season oers a number otop artists rarely seen in Atlanta, along
with audience avorites we know you
will enjoy. Say hello to hot new artists
like Push Dance Company and pianists
Alfredo Rodriguez and Steven Lin,
along with top-o-their-game musicians
Arturo Sandoval, Pat Metheny and
Peter White. The astounding dance
group Diavolo opens the season,
leading us into a all that includes the
return oBig Bad Voodoo Daddy
and the premiere oThe Hot Club of
San Francisco.
Push Dance Company
Peter White
WElcOmE!
DiAvOlO
Friday, September 20
ArTurO SANDOvAl
Friday, October 4
STEvEN liN
Friday, October 11
THE HOT club
Of SAN frANciScOFriday, October 18
big bAD vOODOO DADDy
Friday, November 1
SONic gENEr ATOr andlOrcHESTrE NATiONAl
DE lOrrAiNE
Sunday, November 3
A PETEr WHiTE cHriSTmASithrick brAuN and miNDi AbAir
Saturday, December 14
PuSH DANcE cOmPANy
Friday-Saturday, February 7 & 8
PAT mETHENy uNiTy grOuP
Saturday, February 15
cArOliNAcHOcOlATE DrOPS
Saturday, March 1
AlfrEDO rODriguEz TriO
Friday, March 7
SHufflE, SHAkE AND SHATTEr
bySANfOrD biggErS
Friday, March 28
PilObOluS
Saturday, April 5
EArl klugH
Saturday, April 12
JESSE cOOk
Saturday, April 26
THE 2013-2014 SEASON Order TickeTs TOday fOr The BesT Price and BesT seaTs!
fErST cENTErPresenTs
Diavolo Alredo Rodriguez
Earl Klugh kicks o an exciting three-
year exploration o several areas o jazz
music, and Georgia Techs own ensemble
in residence Sonic Generator will
perorm with LOrchestre National de
Lorraine. The season includes the return
oPilobolus, the Carolina Chocolate
Drops and last years sensational Jesse
Cook. Perormance artist Sanford
Biggers will oer a unique evening o
lm, music and visual art as part oArica
Atlanta 2014.
Your total experience is heightenedby galleries lled with surprising
visual arts exhibitions, discussions
held prior to most jazz concerts, and
oten opportunities to say hello to the
perormers ater the show.
Connecting to the perormers through
live experience is unlike anything else,
and once you have experienced it, you
cant wait or it to happen again.
Join us or the experience!
The new season at the Ferst Center is lled withgreat perormances! Season tickets are on salenow and subscribers get the best rewards!
THE bEST PricE!
Select any 5 shows and sav 15% o the price o
single tickets. Get the best seating or your avorite
shows, guaranteed.
flExibiliTy
Choose your avorite music and dance perormances
and design your own subscription at a great
discount price!
PriOriTy SEATiNg
Ticket buyers are seated in the ollowing order:
Ferst Friends who purchase ve or moreperormances (minimum $100 donation required)
Renewing Subscribers who select ve or moreperormances
New Subscribers who select ve or more
perormances
Single Ticket buyers
TickET ExcHANgE
Think your plans might change? No problem
or subscribers. The Ferst Center Box Oce will
exchange your tickets to another perormance.
(Exchanges based on ticket availability; handling ee
applied; upgrade charges may apply.)
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Friday, September 208 p.m.
Diavolo takes dance, daring and athletics
to the extreme. The dynamic company
returns with Fluid Infnities, the next
installment o the work they perormed atthe Ferst Center in 2010, and with Transit
Space, a kinetic new piece inspired by the
thrilling movement o skateboarding that
uses ramps and hal-pipes as set pieces.
Regular Price: $39, $49Subscription Price: $33.15, $41.65Special Childrens Price: $22
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appears to dey gravity, perormingwith astounding athleticism andinnite grace Stanord Lively Arts
ARTUROSANDOVAL
Friday, October 48 p.m.
Vivacious, talented and charismatic,
Arturo Sandoval has traveled the world
with his blend o inectious, mind-
blowing jazz, winning Grammy, Billboardand Emmy awards. Born in Cuba in 1949,
Sandoval is a protg o jazz master
Dizzy Gillespie and has evolved into
one o the worlds most acknowledged
guardians o jazz trumpet and fugelhorn.
Regular Price: $30, $40, $55Subscription Price: $25.50, $34, $46.75
Sandovals playing is unabashedlyspectacular, yet he uses histechnique with dramatic nesse.
The New York Times
Jazz Connect!Arrive at 7 p.m. or this ree pre-show talk withWCLK host Jay Edwards about Arturo Sandovaland his music.
Diavolo is unded in part by a grant rom SouthArts in partnership with the National Endowmentor the Arts and the Georgia Council or the Arts.
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STeVeN LINFriday, October 118 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere
Steven Lin, an immediately engaging
and imaginative young Taiwanese
American pianist, moves with ease
between concertos, recitals and chamber
music. The winner o several prestigious
piano competitions including the William
Kapell International Competition and the
Juilliard Schools Gina Bachauer Piano
Competition, he made his debut with the
New York Philharmonic at age 13.
Regular Price: $25Subscription Price: $21.25Seating on stage
His tone wasunailingly
beautiul, hisarticulation
extraordinary,as crystallineas could be in
bravura bits,elegantly rened
in legato lines.The Baltimore Sun
Friday, October 188 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere
The great gypsy jazz ensemble
presents Cinema Vivant, an evening
o vintage silent lms accompanied by
live gypsy swing music. The music o
Django Reinhardt and 1920s Paris will
highlight three classic short lms: The
Cameramans Revengeand The Mascot
by Ladislaw Starewicz, and There It Isby
Charley Bowers.
Regular Price: $30Subscription Price: $25.50Special Childrens Price $22
THe HOT CLUB
One o the most cohesiveand entertaining gypsy swing
bands in the United StatesThe San Francisco Chronicle
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Friday, November 18 p.m.
2013 marks the 20th Anniversary o this
bands remarkable arrival on the music
scene. In their rst years they reminded
the world that it was still cool to swing
Big Band style. Today the high-energy
ensemble is continuously perorming
and recording while expanding their
horizons with new musical inspiration
and infuence.
Regular Price: $35, $45, $60 (Club seating)Subscription Price: $29.75, $38.25, $51
BIG BADVOODOO DADDY
Makes you want to jump up, danceand smile til your ace hurts!
Pazz Magazine
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Sunday, November 37 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere
Sonic Generator, the high-tech
contemporary music ensemble inresidence at Georgia Tech, joins orces
with members o LOrchestre National
de Lorraine and their conductor Jacques
Mercier in a concert o innovative French
and American contemporary music. The
program eatures Steve Reichs City Lie,
a work incorporating digital samplers.
This concert is co-presented by the
Georgia Tech School o Music as part o
France-Atlanta 2013.
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the most stimulating addition to Atlantas musical li eAtlanta Journal-Constitution
SONIC GeNeRATOR ANDLORCHeSTRe NATIONALDe LORRAINe
wITH RICk BRAUNAND MINDI ABAIR
Saturday, December 148 p.m.
The jazz guitar avorite returns to
deliver his brand o holiday jazz!
Peter White leads an all-star lineup
eaturing Rick Braun and Mindi Abair
perorming dazzling arrangements
o holiday avorites. White has kept
contemporary jazz ans worldwide
enthralled by his spirited melodies,
soulul grooves and instantly
recognizable acoustic guitar tone.
Regular Price: $42, $52, $67Subscription Price: $35.70, $44.20, $56.95
A night o Christmas cheer and jazzthe chemistry was o the hook.
Jazz Review
A PeTeR wHITeCHRISTMAS
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Friday, February 7Saturday, February 88 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere
Raissa Simpsons Push Dance Company
builds vibrant contemporary dances
to gain a deeper understanding o
the challenges attributed to mixed
heritage. Each moment generates resh
perspectives rom intermingling diverse
dancers in raw situations that showcase
rarely presented topics. Push Dance
provides audiences an opportunity
to examine issues o identity and
intersecting cultures.
Regular Price: $25Subscription Price: $21.25Seating on stage
wITH CHRIS POTTeR,
ANTONIO SANCHez,
BeN wILLIAMS AND
GIULIO CARMASSI
Saturday, February 158 p.m.
Guitarist Pat Methenys versatility is
almost without peer, netting him an
incredible 20 Grammy Awards, including
one or his latest jazz album in 2013.
He now pours his boundless creativity
into a new project, the ve-member Pat
Metheny Unity Group, eaturing some o
the worlds best jazz players.
Regular Price: $49, $59, $74Subscription Price: $41.65, $50.15, $62.90
Jazz Connect!Arrive at 7 p.m. or this ree pre-show talk withWCLK host Jay Edwards about Pat Metheny UnityGroup and their music.
the most inspired jazzguitarist living, a musiciancapable o structuringimprovised solos asnarratives, a composero estimable lyricism
and bountiul imagination
Bualo News
PUSHDANCe COMPANY
Sleek and sexy edge
San Francisco Guardian
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Saturday, March 18 p.m.
Proudly reclaiming the Arican-
American string band tradition, the
Chocolate Drops reveal the celebratory,
interconnected currents running
through blues, country and bluegrass,
bringing brash, youthul energy to old-
time music rooted in the red soil o the
southern Piedmont.
Regular Price: $30Subscription Price: $25.50Special Childrens Price $22
Friday, March 288 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere
With live music by the band Moon
Medicine, multimedia and perormance
artist Sanord Biggers presents a
montage o his three-part lm suite
Shufe, Shakeand Shatteras part o
the Arica Atlanta 2014celebration.
The lm ollows the Brazilian Ricardo
as he navigates German society, and
continues to Sao Paulo and West Arica
in an exploration o the ormation and
dissolution o identity.
Regular Price: $15Subscription Price: $12.75
an American roots-musicphenomenonThe Wall Street Journal
CAROLINACHOCOLATe DROPS
SHUFFLe, SHAke AND SHATTeRBYSANFORD BIGGeRS
Friday, March 78 p.m.
A young pianist o astonishing virtuosity,
Cuban-born Alredo Rodrguez calls up
images o legendary jazz pianists Keith
Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum
and his compatriot Chucho Valds.
Schooled in the classical conservatories
o Havana, Rodrguez was discovered
at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006
by Quincy Jones and his star has risen
rapidly under the tutelage o the amed
producer.
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A quiet orce in the art worldArt in America
Rodriguezs talent or ndingemotional truth in the split-secondall o a piano key has broughthim to the verge o an improbablesuccess story Los Angeles Times
ALFReDO RODRIGUez TRIO
Jazz Connect at 7 p.m.
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PILOBOLUS
Saturday, April 5
8 p.m.
Like its biological namesakea eisty
little ungus that thrives in armyards
Pilobolus continues to grow toward the
light, expanding and rening its unique
methods o collective creativity. Now
in its 42nd year, the popular dance
company delights audiences around the
globe with its inventive, athletic, witty
and collaborative perormance works.
Regular Price: $39, $49
Subscription Price: $33.15, $41.65
Special Childrens Price $22
The best Pilobolus works, withno loss o wonder or pleasureas popular entertainment, aresustained fights o poetry anddrama The New York Times
Saturday, April 128 p.m.
Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso
Earl Klugh and special guests ignite
the stage in this Night o Guitars
exploring Klughs various guitar
infuences and their styles and
techniques through solo, duet, trio and
ull band perormances. The concert
concludes the rst year o a new
collaboration between Klugh and Georgia
Tech aptly titled HandPicked in honor o
his newest album release.
Regular Price: $37, $47, $62
Subscription Price: $31.45, $39.95, $52.70
Jazz Connect!Arrive at 7 p.m. or this ree pre-show talk withWCLK host Jay Edwards about Earl Klugh andhis music.
eARL kLUGH
Support or Earl Klugh is generously provided byPatrick and Gloria Stansbury.
A guitarist with impeccabletechnique The New York Times
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Saturday, April 268 p.m.
Fiery and percussive guitar work, Latin
rhythms and smoldering onstage
charisma describe this virtuoso guitarist.
Jesse Cook returns to the Ferst stageollowing his stunning perormance here
in the 2012-13 season that let audiences
calling or more!
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JeSSe COOk
Cooks relentless precision and perect
tonality will not be denied.
The Montreal Gazette
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Vibrant signs o a strategic initiative
to enhance creativity are visible acrosscampus this year, rom the new outdoor
exhibit Engineered Art: An International
Sculpture Exhibit at Georgia Techto the
2014 TechArts Festival showcasing the
creative spirit.
In addition to the Ferst Center Presents
proessional artist series, sharing the
imagination and talent o the students
and aculty at Georgia Tech is a major
part o the initiative, and the campus
welcomes the community to enjoy the
visual art, music, theatre, digital and
literary arts created here.
In 2014, Georgia Techs Ivan Allen
College o Liberal Arts will present Arica
Atlanta 2014, a citywide celebration
reinventing the cultural and economic
bonds between the Arican, European
and American cultures in Atlanta with a
rich array o arts activities.
For more inormation on all Georgia Tech
arts events, please see arts.gatech.edu.
THe ARTS AReTHRIVING ATGeORGIA TeCH!
arts.gatech.edu
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DANCE A B A B
dav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/20 . . . . . . . $49, $39 . $41.65, $33.15 ______ X $_________ = $___________
Childrens Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22. . . . . . . . . $22 ______ X $_________ = $___________
Pus da cpa. . . 2/7 (Fri.) . . . . . $25 . . . . . . . $21.25 ______ X $_________ = $___________
2/8 (Sat.) . . . . . $25 . . . . . . . $21.25 ______ X $_________ = $___________
Pbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4/5. . . . . . . . $49, $39 . $41.65, $33.15 ______ X $_________ = $___________
Childrens Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22. . . . . . . . . $22 ______ X $_________ = $___________
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P W csas . .12/14 . $67, $52, $42 .$56.95, $44.20, $35.70 ______ X $_________ = $___________
Pat metheny Unity Grp. . . 2/15 . . $74, $59, $49 . $62.90, $50.15, $41.65 ______ X $_________ = $___________
A rguz t . 3/7 . . .$49, $34 . . . . . $41.65, $28.90 ______ X $_________ = $___________
ea kug . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4/12 . . .$62, $47, $37 . $52.70, $39.95, $31.45 ______ X $_________ = $___________
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Childrens Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22. . . . . . . . . $22 ______ X $_________ = $___________
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Childrens Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22. . . . . . . . . $22 ______ X $_________ = $___________
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Jss c . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4/26. .. . . . . . .$36. . . . . . .$30.60 ______ X $_________ = $___________
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