co host that's evander it's just the theme of the year everything's everything's new everything's new and everything's black today right i'm going to an intense some of our staff are even in black and white you know they should all be in purple but anyway but we're announcing a couple of shows th coming up really really quickly one i'm really excited about is philip phillips and he want to merican idol and what are some of his big hits here he won season eleven of american idol and home he's most well known for his new album that just dropped bro i think people will recognize it when they hear the raging fire and go on go on go on and you know i could sing it for you folks i know you've written in the west of that but you know i'm going to hold back but that's november twelfth and as we've talked about we really are trying to diversify here at the hall and so phillip phillips is one for the young people and you know we have the american idol tour here this summer and there were a lot of older people in the audience too so american idol draws all ages and there were a i think one of the they called her the now and then we come into a bunch of holiday shows and these are the new shows we're announcing today mannheim steamroller is back they sort of come every of a year and they are a fantastic new age they have the most new age christmas music they're the number them then we come back with one of our favorites here kenny rogers by the he's mostly been here for his hit show and now he's coming with his christmas show and he does a lot of great christmas shows and he has a guest linda is davis is linda davis who a little fun then we have of course always for the kids at the holidays circle picking which these are the national acrobats of the people's republic of china that's december fourth and i can tell you having been to china they are fantastic and then colors of christmas absolutely light hearted and then of course we have christmas carol coming that is december twenty one and balancers december sixteenth and then for the kids and me and hannah is coming back and he's coming on december twenty eighth he brings all the animals everybody last time we had him here several years ago it was amazing show just fantastic under one of my favorites and looking forward to i tell you and then one of the most beautiful women in the world is coming the nesa williams yeah and i have seen vanessa williams in kiss of the spider woman into the woods so many broadway shows but of course she also was one of those voices of disney singing a lot of their themes you know the colors of the wind is one of my favorites oh yeah yeah she's saying that and many others and also she's been on six six park avenue and ugly betty and but she's originally when she was a miss america i mean she's had an amazing career and she'll be here on january the second and then it's actually the forty fifth anniversary day piece one grammys he was one of the stars of the blue collar comedy tour so he's amazingly popular then foreigner i mean i feel like foreigner saying you know most of the hips are saying you know they saying everything let's see cold as ice urgent hot blooded coming on january twenty one and all the love songs and i must say betsy i can remember when he had the long flowing hair and he would play in a renos and you know i'd just be hard struck but i don't forget the oh yeah in between those two got to be january eighteenth so we are going to really jam packed and these are just the new shows we're announcing and then we're bringing back a tribute show which every year total sellout so that is on january twenty second and then someone else to lighten up our lives in every comedian on the planet and apparently not so and then a show that was here once before and we've done a lot of elvis shows here at the band ways all but this is the best this is hell this live and they have it is amazing and that is january twenty seventh followed by on january twenty eighth a group that was supposed to be here last year and they did make a maryland and billy davis will be here this this year they sing wedding bells blues i mean i remember from high school singing is fantastic and then we have the golden voice which has frankie avalon fabian bobby ray dell we're running out of time on this so i'm just going to look through some more of the shows we have the piano guys coming on february seventh which they are a fantastic fantastic internet sensation the duke ellington orchestra on february ninth irving mayfield in the neural and jazz orchestra sinatra's centennial storing michael feinstein on february the fourteenth and that's going to be wonderful because michael transfer i'm going to say i said march eighteenth audra mcdonald my favorite march twenty second jackie evancho coming back to sarasota after being a huge hit at the ringling on march twenty fourth sezar milan who will teach my dog how to once and for all can hope march twenty sixth the temps in the tops in april april third boz scaggs we will have to talk about later another favorite johnny mathis april twelfth chris botti april seventeenth robert irvine a chef that's new to the bay and ways off and i just saw his t v show that would be incredible roberta flack which of course for us of my age you know her songs were the songs we fell in love to celtic woman performing their tenth anniversary and just to make when we come back we're going to have someone who's very special to the arts here in sarasota gre make sure you're watering your lawn on the proper day in the city of serious soda residents with a house number those ending with one three five seven or nine are allowed to irrigate on thursdays residents with an even house number zero two four six or eight can water on tuesdays for more information call the city of serious sort of public works department at nine five five two three two five or  grateful that you're our spokesperson well thank you mary and it really is important that we do that you know because you say all of you all the people that run arts then used to run our cultural organizations are busy doing exactly that yet it's important that we have somebody out there representing us cultural organizations in the county from the museums to the aquariums to the to the gardens whatever it may be it's that alliance of people that believe that culture and the arts are important in a community and really what we do want the  umbrella organization for all of the our you know we have such a wonderful performing arts community right here so the families will and they offer the valet the symphony but we also have thousands of individual artist haters so many do all kinds of people and it's really important that we have an organization that can tune into late with all of those parts and pieces but we also do a lot of work with the school system to make sure that the arts are always available in our schools we have an education taken on the role of being the advocacy organization for all of us to make sure that when school cuts have to happen that they are charter not disproportionately to everything else so we do a lot of work with that we work with the school system in developing all kinds of programming to make it easy for every young person in our community to have the arts as a part of the core composition of their education now one of the reasons we're here today is to talk about the arts award ceremony that we have had here at fenway so i guess for the last two years and it's very near and dear to us and it's coming up very shortly in october tell us jim what kind of words are given out what's the you've been programming can people do they buy tickets w is what is the whole it's a good question and really what this whole program is about mary is a celebration of the arts in sarasota you know we think of the performing arts halls we think of the venues that we have but really what makes the arts work are individuals people that are involved in producing art artistic directors are volunteers who none of us could do hundreds absolutely and what this you do because it's free and open to the public that it's great to folks here that free this is a performance as well as this year and we will have it's a great way for people to sample the arts here this year we're going to have performances by the sarasota ballet sarasota orchestra and the west coast black theater troupe that's an incredible line in addition to the awards and the various recognitions that take place so we want our community to be involved and celebrating the fact that we have the arch here so i want everybody to plan on coming it's going to be on monday night october twentieth here at the families will the program will start at seven o'clock pm last year we were nearly a packed house so you  great so we would love for everyone in the community to come and get a chance to see a lot more about the arts learn who make the arts happen out there and be a part of the celebration for the whole community i think it's a wonderful experience and  we're thrilled to have it here but one thing i also want to focus on people think of the arts is the creative singing acting dancing as you said the museum seaquarium but it's the art of the business too and we are one of the biggest businesses capital of florida with real justification and when you look at what makes a community what makes a building you know its infrastructure its people a lot of people don't understand that if we took our nonprofit arts and cultural for the hospital but we certainly are among the top three employers in the county and when you think about that when you think about it all of those people they may not always be the actor on the stage they know these days the lighting technician the plumber  they you know they're they may be any of those things but they we have families they attend our schools they buy houses they buy groceries as a matter of fact the nonprofit arts and cultural organizations alone spend over two hundred million dollars a year buying goods and services from other businesses in sarasota county absolutely and we also account for people going out at night eating in our restaurants and being a world class destination which brings in you know our tourism so it has all important bonus is really one of the big differences i think that one of the huge differences that you see in sarasota compared to other communities of this size are is actually in the size is the quality that we have here and that really drives us as a as a cultural destination which is really important because statistically we know that a cultural tourist spends a lot more money than you know they get to enjoy  beautiful beaches in the daytime you know jim we're running out of time but i do want you to give a chance to tell people how can they become a member of the arts alliance because we have individual members as well as corporate as well as i'm a member of the arts forward and so how could somebody join the arts alliance and help us in our work thank you for that question because it's important we would like to see every service in the sarasota county be a member of the alliance as the chief advocate for the arts here having numbers of people that we represent is very important if i sit down with our local politicians are representatives and say i think this means that but if i say i have my six thousand members this and that's why your friends so it's very easy all you have to do you can go online to w w w sarasota arts dot org or you can call our offices at nine four one three six five five one one eight and we can get you signed up right away memberships range from as lowest two dollars a year to as high as you would like to contribute to make your voice heard for the arts and that's what you're really doing when you join the arts and culture alliance is your saying i believe that the ar are important and we believe that the work that this organization does and representing all of archon culture in sarasota county is important and we want to support it and that's what you're really doing you're supporting the art well now you see folks why we're so grateful to have jim surely and we'll be back in a minute after then ways off the state street parking lot may be closed but downtown businesses are still open with plenty of parking opportunities looking to enjoy all the main street has to offer to make a dash for the whole foods parking garage with plenty of upper deck covered parking taking a stroll down palm avenue then look no further than the palm avenue parking garage offering clean and well lit spaces park a couple hours old the whole yeah because you know it's important that we have our own and vanity but together we are very important parts here in sarasota so what we're going to talk about some of the shows that are already on sale now some of the shows in october november are already on sale however the broadway shows have been on sale for subscription but on september thirteenth which is our big on sale day they are all going on sale for several tickets as well so we probably should have said that at the beginning september thirtieth thirteenth is are on sale and fourteenth fifteenth and you could buy tickets online come to the box office you know normally a box office you know i'll entertain sing so people like to call on the phone instead and you know we try to have a radio station here and some breakfast and we have chairs for people waiting in line and because we have every operator busy and then we have a phone you know as we said nine five three three three six eight or you can do it online right away so with so many shows going on sale at once it's really really busy and of course the brochure mean you do you feel like we do and we mention martina mcbride i'm so excited about her coming october sixteenth and then october seventeenth somebody i've been watching on television right now lyle lovett lyle lovett has this great fusion of music but he's also a performer he's on the bridge right now and i've been enjoying that he's an amazing voice mary julia roberts i mean you know that minute for that minute yes but he's october seventeenth and then one of the comedians i love the most of them are is going to be here on october twenty sixth and folks if you want tickets to see bill maher get them fast yeah those are going to quickly and he's hysterical have you ever seen capitol steps i have not but everybody around the office has been buzzing for us with all the politics going on with all the politics symphony orchestra behind them so it should be special and it's also for us the first christmas show they've ever done november true twentieth and then so you think you can dance do you watch that show every week i have no lot and you know camelot's an older broadway show but i've seen the artwork for this and it gives game of thrones a run it with with the land they have cast and it is an amazingly popular oh yeah kemel it's doing really well then we switch december and we have smokey joe's cafe and that's a great broadway show i saw before but this one is better because it has the coasters in and that's december third and that show selling really well and then cincinnati pops coming with my favorite broadway leading man brian stokes mitchell and diana krall tell me about a little bit about her new album you know he is a five time grammy award winner very popular in this area as well as the country jazz singer you know i think people really embraced her when i first moved here about a month ago that was one of the first performers that he was a long time resident yeah i've been here not so long i'm very knowledgeable about that but this is her wallflower tour and she covers a lot of things like the eagles the lot going on there so get back to your holidays early salute to vienna new year's concert on january third that's great every year ok then we go to sister act again with the popular one way that it was that it was based on which would be goldberg is not going to be with us but we're going to have a blast this talented actress you wouldn't know just watching the performance of the st petersburg state symphony no not heard them before oh they are one of the oldest orchestras in russia and they are phenomenal there's another work it's true that has a variation on their name this is the real one folks and that is on january a dinner and then we have ballroom with a twist on january twenty ninth and i'm hearing that it's going to be some incredible dancing with the stars people in that show will have to wait and see we'll talk about a little of a show on a night in nashville last year i went and every monday night in nashville vince gill when he's not on tour plays and jams with this band and there they're just fantastic so if you like this and you like country music come out to see the time jumpers and then we go to another broadway show peter in the star catcher which i saw and it won some broadway tonys and it was incredible and that's feb twelfth and peter in the star catcher sort of a a precursor to peter pan  so that will be familiar to a lot of people want to actually happen so they haven't seen it before them and next we have dancing with the pros what is different with this one you know what is different they you are going to be able to vote for the couple that you like we're going to have a special electronics and if i could say her name right i would try kareena smirnoff very good thank you for dancing with the stars will be here and the host of that show is alan thicke and then we have one of the  alvin ailey will be here on feb seventeenth and then i'm getting the sign that we have to rush again just start the clocks now at the clock we have the russian national ballet doing all sorts of those from sleeping beauty and swan league and dying swan and that's on march third and hyde march fifth the big show of the year show jersey boys this is the one every word winning mega hit here for an entire week march eleventh to the fifteenth performances a performance is get you don't want to miss this this is this is the most asked for show i've we've ever done here anything goes march sixteenth the famous famous incomparable it's not perlman here on march twenty one we have audra mcdonald here my  favorite i could go on for and we don't have any time so she's on march twenty second flashdance another musical with the water folks the water would be here just a quick thing two performances of the two performances single one two and when they first debuted this they did the water and and then we have one last friday fest and tell us about that while it's with adrian right so you can all get on your cowboy boots and kick up your heels does a little bit of classic rock as well as the country so i think really great come on out here if you haven't come just have a good time we are so excited today to have been able to announce our fourteenth fifteenth season i will tell you there are at least three or four huge concerts that we've still yet to be be announced and one of them will be our forty fifth anniversary concert in our gala and i'm so glad to welcome you back to