Banjoists Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, who are also husband and wife, will take the stage at the Peoples Bank Theatre at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, October 9th, as part of Marietta College's Esbenshade Series.
The Branford Marsalis Quartet will be joined by guest-vocalist Kurt Elling in a singular collaboration of musical forces. What has emerged from the partnership, after an intense week of performance and recording in New Orleans, is a new album, entitled Upward Spiral.
The Esbenshade Series returns in the spring semester with The Shaolin Warriors, who are known throughout the world for their deadly martial-arts prowess, at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March 5.
Gavin George, a 13-year-old piano prodigy from Westerville, Ohio, will close out the fall semester of the Esbenshade Series with a concert at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, November 20th at the Peoples Bank Theatre.
Kao Kalia Yang is a teacher, public speaker, and writer. Yang is the author of the award-winning book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, 2008) and the forthcoming book, The Song Poet (Metropolitan Books, 2016). She is a graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
The Esbenshade Series at Marietta College will have its performance kick off with Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn in concert at the Peoples Bank Theatre.