Flamenco guitar virtuoso Jesse Cook will perform in Â鶹ƵµÀone night only, Saturday, June 7, to benefit Â鶹ƵµÀStage.
Jesse Cook
The concert will start at 9 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center on the Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity campus.
Doors open at 8:45 p.m. General admission tickets are $30. For more information and to purchase tickets, call the Â鶹ƵµÀStage Box Office at 315-443-3275 or visit the .
Cook and his band incorporate elements of flamenco rumba, jazz and many forms of world music. Cook is known internationally as one of the most influential figures in Nuevo Flamenco music. His music has been featured on “Sex and the City,” “The Chris Isaak Show” and in several Olympic Games.
Cook’s Â鶹ƵµÀconcert will be part of the Â鶹ƵµÀStage Gala, an annual fundraiser presented by the Â鶹ƵµÀStage Board of Trustees and the Â鶹ƵµÀStage Guild. This year’s event will celebrate Stage’s founding artistic director Arthur Storch (1925 – 2013). In addition, Jim Clark will be honored for his longtime leadership of Stage. The honorary chair of the Gala is Louis G. Marcoccia, president of Â鶹ƵµÀStage’s Board of Trustees and executive vice president and chief financial officer of Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity. Co-chairs of the Gala are Fran Nichols (vice chair of Â鶹ƵµÀStage’s Board of Trustees and vice chairman of Eric Mower + Associates) and Jacki Goldberg (Â鶹ƵµÀStage Guild board member).
Tickets for the gala (which include the Jesse Cook concert) are $200-$300. For more information about the gala, visit the .
