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The Jazz Ambassadors have appeared in all 50 states — as well as Canada, Mexico, Japan, India and throughout Europe. But don’t expect a “perfect”

Mary Chapin Carpenter thinks a concert is a chance to go on a journey. The singer-songwriter hopes that audiences will go home feeling like fellowship

Consider yourself warned: There’s a pretty good chance the audience at the Amphitheater will be in tears tonight. At 8:15 p.m., tribute band The Purple

Paul Thorn is no stranger to rolling with the punches. Before he was a singer-songwriter, he spent about a decade as a professional prizefighter, making

Bernhard Scully’s eighth-grade music teacher had a photo of Canadian Brass hanging on the classroom wall. As a young student, Scully said listening to the

  Tonight in the Amphitheater, birds of prey will be circling above the audience. There’s no cause for alarm, though. Peter Gros knows what he’s

  Straight No Chaser is now performing for sold-out crowds and singing in recording studios, but there were two original motivations the a cappella group

Brittany Nicole Waddell, better known as Britt Nicole, started singing at 3 years old in her grandfather’s church. Since then she has followed the path

On July 26, John Bertles will be a playing a plastic straw. Bertles, along with his wife, Carina Piaggio, is the co-founder and co-director of

Huey Lewis does a poll during many of his concerts these days, according to longtime manager Lol Halsey, where he asks the audience how many

There’s a lot more to Lynn Trefzger’s job than not moving her lips. Trefzger is a ventriloquist with almost 40 years of experience. She’s bringing

At 8:15 p.m. Friday in the Amphitheater, folk-rock singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle will take the stage in continuation of a musical partnership that formally

  Vaudeville is back, and it’s coming to Chautauqua Institution in the form of aerial tricks and juggling. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Amphitheater, Cirque-tacular

For Kathy and Jim Pender, community and family are paramount. And at 7:30 p.m. July 13 in the Amphitheater, Kathy and Jim Pender and the Michael

When Seth Avett first wrote “Divorce Separation Blues,” he never thought he would release it on an album. The song is hopeful, catchy and tragically

The Capitol Steps, a musical comedy satire group composed in equal of measure of professional actors and congressional staffers, will return to Chautauqua Institution to