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DECEMBER  2022





 DIVAS WITH A TWIST  ANA POPOVIC
 SAT, DEC 10 | 8PM  SAT, DEC 17 | 8PM
 $32
               $42
 Divas with a Twist is a group of five powerful female vocalists  Featuring Birch Swart. 8x-Blues Music Award Nominated
 backed by Grammy-nominated musicians. The band will play  Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter ANA POPOVIC recently
 holiday music as well as pop and rock favorites with divas  celebrated 22 years as a touring musician with her last album  DECEMBER 2022
 Christine Joyce, Paula Markowicz, Joyce MacPhee, Nicole  release being ‘Live for LIVE’ (2020) – an exciting concert video
 Malagodi and Tracy Silva commanding the stage. Think Queen,  and live album that demonstrates why she’s proudly looking
 Aretha Franklin, Gloria Estefan, The Doobie Brothers and The  back at a career of thousands of shows worldwide. Popovic’s
 Who, for starters. This is a don’t-miss-it event that will put you  passion on stage is evident and the title sums it up, this IS
 in the holiday spirit.  what she lives for. Popovic has been nominated for 8 Blues
         Music Awards, and appeared on the covers of Vintage Guitar
         and Guitar Player magazine. Her Blues Music Award
         Nominations include 3x-“Contemporary Blues Female Artist
 TD BANK LOBBY SERIES:   of the Year” and most recently in 2022 “Blues Rock Artist of
         the Year”. Nearly all of Popovic’s albums reached the top of
 MEAGHAN FARRELL  the Billboard Blues Charts. She and her phenomenal 6-piece
 THU,   DEC 15  I  7:30PM   band tour tirelessly, sharing stages with B.B. King, Buddy Guy,
         Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa and many others.
 $15
 Meaghan Farrell is an Americana/Pop storyteller out of
 Nashville, TN, with a New York City foundation. With one full
 length album and three EP's under her belt, Meaghan has the  Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Solo
 experience and confidence to express her most authentic self.  Performance by Neil McGarry
 Playing alongside some of the most influential songwriters and         SUN,   DEC 18  I  3PM
 performers in the industry, she is creating a name for herself                      $20-$25
 through the show she is performing around the country.
                                           Actor Neil McGarry returns home to Plymouth and Spire Center For The
                                            Arts with his awarding winning, solo performance of Charles Dickens’ A
                                                   Christmas Carol on Sunday, December 18th, 2022 at 3:00 pm.

 STORM LARGE: A HOLIDAY SHOW             Directed by Ross MacDonald, McGarry’s performance was named “Best Of
                                          Boston” by critic Jules Becker and won "Best Solo Performance” from the
 FRI,  DEC 16  |  8PM                                         Independent Reviewers of New England in 2014.
 $45                                       Armed only with Dickens’ words and a bare stage, McGarry delivers the

 Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome.  perennial holiday classic in a tour de force that has left audiences riveted
 She shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on the  from Boston to Prague. Joyous, witty, and gloriously uplifting, A Christmas
 CBS show Rock Star: Supernova, where despite having been  PHOTO CREDIT: DENISE MACCAFERRI  Carol is a fully staged, full-throated leap into Dickens’ most  famous story,
 eliminated in the week before the finale, Storm built a fanbase  delivered with a simplicity that disarms and touches the heart.
 that follows her around the world to this day. She was seen on  “The performance … broke my heart and renewed it … captivating, funny and thought-provoking.”     - Jessica Holcomb
 the 2021 season of America’s Got Talent. Recent
 engagements include performing her one-woman
 autobiographical musical memoir Crazy Enough at La Jolla
 Music Society and Portland Center Stage, debuts with the  ANOTHER TEQUILA SUNRISE – A
 Philly Pops, members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,  TRIBUTE TO THE EAGLES
 and the Seattle Symphony, as well as return engagements with  FRI,   DEC 30  I  8PM
 the Houston, Detroit, Toronto, and BBC Symphonies; the New
 York Pops; and the Louisville Orchestra, with whom she   $35
 recorded the 2017 album All In. Storm continues to tour concert halls across the country with her band Le  ANOTHER TEQUILA SUNRISE is America’s top Eagles Tribute
 Bonheur and as a special guest on Michael Feinstein’s Shaken & Stirred tour. Alongside Liza Minnelli and Joel  band. Originally formed in 2001, this New England based
 Grey, Storm joined Michael Feinstein as special guest with the Pasadena Pops. Storm made her debut as  tribute band has performed all over the country. They offer a
 guest vocalist with the band Pink Martini in April 2011, singing four sold-out concerts with the National  sophisticated performance encompassing all the best hits
 Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She continues to perform with the band,  from The Eagles, as well as solo material from Don Henley,
 touring nationally and internationally, and she is featured on their album Get Happy. Storm has also sung  Glenn Frey, and Joe Walsh. From soaring ballads to heavy
 with K.D. Lang, Kirill Gerstein, John Doe, Rufus Wainwright, and George Clinton.  rockers, with sweet vocal harmonies and jangling guitars, they
         cover it all. Over the years, the band has added unique
         features to its shows such as playing Eagles albums in their
         entirety.
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