Our special projects include some even more special talent for 2020-21… If you haven’t scheduled a meeting with us at WAA, Arts Midwest, Arts Market, PAE, or IEBA then now is the time to schedule one!
Schedule your meeting here or email us at info@edkeane.com to set up a time to meet.
Brian McKnight & Friends
With Special Guests to celebrate the Holidays, and more, including other SRG Artists Take 6, Raheem DeVaughn, and Bobby V., Brian McKnight shows why he has been the recipient of American Music Awards, Soul Train Awards, NAACP Image and Blockbuster Awards, and a Billboard Songwriter of The Year Award. He has crossed the boundaries of EVERY medium as he stepped into Broadway with a successful run as Billy Flynn in “Chicago,” hosted “Soul Session Countdown with Brian McKnight” on BETJ, been a red carpet host for “Extra!” hosted “The Brian McKnight Morning Show” on KTWV, appeared on the hit juggernaut “Celebrity Apprentice,”and more.
Máiréad Nesbitt’s Celtic Spells
A new production by one of the Founders of Celtic Woman, Nesbitt returns to the stage with storytelling and spellbinding traditions, with Celtic Spells.
Star-crossed lovers are forbidden by their religions from being together – they must leave their homes and families, cross the ocean to build a new life, a family…and cross time in the lives they create…
Tom Scott & The L.A. Express
with Kari Kirkland
Rebirth of The Cool!
Tom is a prolific and renowned composer, arranger, producer, musical director, educator, saxophonist and band leader. With 3 GRAMMY Awards, 14 nominations and a career as producer, Music Director, and Arranger for such must-watch TV as the Emmy’s, Tom’s role as guest artist/arranger spans more than four hundred and fifty recordings, by such diverse artists as Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell, Quincy Jones, Thelonious Monk, Whitney Houston, the Blues Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Aerosmith.
Kirkland’s singing evokes a direct connection to such great vocalists as Joni Mitchell and Julie London, and brings that West Coast style back to town.
Voices
An A Cappella Festival – TAKE 6 + Women of the World
About Women of the World
Formed in 2008, Women of the World has evolved into a sisterhood, as much as it is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning vocal quartet. Representing Japan, Italy, India and USA (by way of Haiti), the four vocalists perform in 37 of the world’s languages, and counting. The ensemble believes that learning about myriad cultures in the world (through song) is one of the most powerful ways to gain more understanding about each other.
About Take 6
Heralded by Quincy Jones as the “baddest vocal cats on the planet” this legendary group has 10 Grammy Awards, 10 Dove Awards, and is in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Together, Women of the World and Take 6 make a cappella the only sounds you need!
Jason Miles’ “A Love Affair” –
The Music of Ivan Lins
His amazing musical contributions to albums by artists like Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, Sting, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, AMO are well documented. His musical productions have garnered Grammy awards and numerous, Emmy and more, nominations. From The Hollywood Bowl to Capetown Jazz Festival, Miles continues to be cutting edge in the music he plays and writes and performs. As Roberta Flack was quoted as saying, “Jason Miles has raised the level of excellence for the musicians who have worked with him, myself included.”
Georgia On My Mind
Celebrating the Music of Ray Charles
If you didn’t catch the 25-city tour upcoming, act now for the next set of dates!
• Emmy Award Winner Clint Holmes
• 10-time Grammy® Award Winner and Gospel Music Hall of Famers Take 6
• Award-winning vocalist Nnenna Freelon
Ray Charles was an American treasure. He transcended all challenges to spread his music based on Gospel, Blues, Jazz and Country around the world… he was a genius! Boasting iconic tunes from the catalogue of the genius himself, the artists make each song a winning part of the tapestry that is Ray Charles’ music.
Handel’s Messiah
A Soulful Celebration…LIVE
This SYMPHONIC work by the phenomenal artist-arranger producer-composer MERVYN WARREN and the legendary Quincy Jones was recorded 27 years ago – and changed the face of this landmark Holiday work. Cast with Guest Stars and new, original works intermingled with the classic material, this now-classic celebration will fill your Holiday Season!
DON’T MISS THE NEXT ONE This show SOLD OUT at The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts with The National Symphony Orchestra in its 25th Anniversary Presentation.
The Summit:
The Manhattan Transfer
Meets Take 6
This show is a true combination of the talents of both 10-time GRAMMY-winning vocal groups – on-stage together for most of the show, The Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6 is an evening of unparalleled firsts – songs new to each repertoire, fan-favorites that bring down the house, and moments of shared vocal beauty and pure entertainment!
Monk On Monk
Thelonious Monk Celebration
This perennial favorite, launched in 1998, as a recording and then as a live show where T.S. MONK brings his father’s legacy to jazz fans around the world! In his ten-piece ensemble, taken with the instrumentation Thelonious himself employed in his legendary Town Hall concert, T. S. Monk performs iconic Monk and unknown compositions he discovered, in his tribute to Thelonious Monk, also known as “Father of Modern Jazz”