Jellybean Jams: The Shake Ups Play The Beatles!

The Shake Ups return to the Lafayette's Long Center for the Performing Arts for another family-friendly appearance in the Jellybean Jams concert series! Get your tickets at: https://longpac.org/events/jellybean-jams-the-shake-ups-play-the-beatles!

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Scotty McCreery - Sept. 27, 2020

Scotty McCreery Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 **NEW DATE** 7:30 PM The Long Center for the Performing Arts, Lafayette, IN Scotty McCreery is an American country music singer who won the 10th season of "American Idol" in 2011. With his third album (plus a chart-topping Christma......More

Scotty McCreery Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 **NEW DATE** 7:30 PM The Long Center for the Performing Arts, Lafayette, IN Scotty McCreery is an American country music singer who won the 10th season of "American Idol" in 2011. With his third album (plus a chart-topping Christmas record), the young star takes a huge creative step forward. He co-wrote all 11 songs on Seasons Change, working with some of the finest songwriters in Nashville to express a wide range of emotions and musical styles. IMPORTANT PERFORMANCE UPDATE Scotty McCreery concert rescheduled! NEW DATE: Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 Tickets for March 26 & Sept. 3 will be honored. Emails have been sent to current ticket holders. The COVID-19 crisis impacted Scotty McCreery's national tour. Previously announced Long Center dates are rescheduled.

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Robert Cray Band

NEW DATE: Saturday, March 20, 2021 Robert Cray Band at the Long Center IMPORTANT PERFORMANCE UPDATE The June 6 Robert Cray Band concert is postponed! The COVID-19 crisis has impacted the Robert Cray Band's national tour. Please retain your ticket. All previously purch......More

NEW DATE: Saturday, March 20, 2021 Robert Cray Band at the Long Center IMPORTANT PERFORMANCE UPDATE The June 6 Robert Cray Band concert is postponed! The COVID-19 crisis has impacted the Robert Cray Band's national tour. Please retain your ticket. All previously purchased tickets will automatically transfer to the new date! Please check your email for details. Presented by the Long Center for the Performing Arts and Friends of Bob Live Music Co-op. Sponsors include City of Lafayette, Tippecanoe Arts Federation and the Indiana Arts Commission. Over the past four decades, Robert Cray has created a sound that rises from American roots, blues, soul and R&B, with five Grammy wins, 20 acclaimed studio albums and a bundle of live albums that punctuate the Blues Hall of Famer’s career. On That’s What I Heard, Robert celebrates the music of Curtis Mayfield, Bobby “Blue” Bland, The Sensational Nightingales and more, alongside four newly written songs. “Funky, cool and bad,” is how Robert Cray describes his latest album, That’s What I Heard (released Feb. 28). The music on That’s What I Heard falls into two camps, the sweet and the funky. Of the former, “You’re the One” comes from the Bobby “Blue” Bland songbook. “There’s this thing where I feel you kind of gotta get out of your own head when you're covering one of your heroes,” Cray explained. “Bobby’s one of those. You just let yourself go, and do the song because you love it.” Don Gardner’s “My Baby Likes to Boogaloo” and the Billy Sha-Rae minor hit, “Do It” are acknowledged rarities (the originals can be heard on the compilation, Groove & Grind: Rare Soul). “Do It” is leaner and meaner, the sort of bare-bones funk that defined the Detroit club sound in the early ’70s with Sha-Rae, Dennis Coffey, and Earl Van Dyke. Cray’s steamroller rendition gets a little extra push from guest guitarist Ray Parker, Jr., who played in Sha-Rae’s band as a teen. “Burying Ground” is a sacred song from the Sensational Nightingales, inspired by Cray’s youth, when Sundays on the stereo were reserved for his parents’ gospel records. Curtis Mayfield wrote “You’ll Want Me Back” for Major Lance, and Cray wrote “To Be with You” for his late friend, Tony Joe White. “Hot” is another Cray original. “As for the lyrics, “We always say to ourselves, ‘I’m old, but I’m hot,’” he said, and laughed. Spotted hanging around the studio, Steve Perry sang harmony vocals on “Promises You Can’t Keep,” written by Steve Jordan, Kim Wilson and Danny Kortchmar. Robert’s band features Richard Cousins (bass), Dover Weinberg (keyboards), Terence F. Clark (drums), and Steve Jordan (drums, percussion). robertcray.com

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