Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Close to You: Music of The Carpenters

February 5, 2017

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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From the Executive Director & ISU President Welcome to Stephens Auditorium!

Our exciting 2016-17 season features well-known performers and a little something for everyone.

Uniquely located on the campus of Iowa State University, our facility is a stunning combination of the visual and performing arts. With outstanding acoustics, the 2,700-seat, state-of-the-art concert hall is often applauded by the artists who grace our stage, as well as our audiences who enthusiastically return year after year to experience the entertainment provided only by live professional theater.

We are excited to debut our World-View Music Series – a season-long musical journey through a diverse selection of five performances including: The Havana Cuba All-Stars Ladysmith Black Mambazo National Symphony of Ukraine Celtic Fire Semi-Toned

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These high-energy performances not only create a hearty helping of musical nourishment for the soul and a thrilling feast for the senses, but they also value ethnic diversity and seek to elevate the understanding of artistic and cultural expression. This aligns with our campus commitment to establish a more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community.

With appreciation, excitement, and anticipation, we welcome you to our 48th season.

Steven Leath President Iowa State University

Tammy Koolbeck Executive Director Iowa State Center

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Helpful Hints for Your Experience In Case of an Emergency Doctors, parents or guests expecting phone calls are advised to leave their seat location (located on ticket) with the appropriate parties and with the Guest Services Desk, which is located in the main floor lobby. The emergency telephone number during performances is 515-294-2313.

Accessibility Features Wheelchair seating and special seating for the hearing and visually impaired is available.

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Finding Your Seat / Late Seating Seating begins 30 minutes prior to curtain time. Late seating is subject to the discretion of the staff and according to the artist’s contract.

Headphones with infrared listening devices are available for use at no charge at the Guest Services Desk.

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Please turn off all cell phones, beepers, video games and other electronic devices prior to the performance. All electronic devices are to be disabled during the performance.

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Parking Stephens Auditorium has convenient parking in lots adjacent to the building. Lots A-1 and B-3 are reserved for Performing Arts Fund Donors who contribute $300 or more. Parking for mobility-impaired guests is available in Lot F located west of Stephens Auditorium.

Smoking Smoking is prohibited in Stephens Auditorium and on the surrounding grounds.

Medical Assistance If you have a medical need, please notify an usher. Medical services are provided by Mary Greeley Medical Center.

American Sign Language interpretation may be arranged at least one month in advance of performances.

Guide and service dogs are welcome.

Please notify the Ticket Office in advance at 515-294-2479 if you have any special requests or concerns regarding accommodations. We are pleased to assist you with your needs.

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Children All children attending a performance must be able to sit quietly in their own seats without disturbing other guests or they may be asked to leave the auditorium. Please use discretion when choosing to bring a child, and remember that everyone must have a ticket.

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Know Before You Go! The playbill for each show is made available on each performance page online at center.iastate.edu.

Refreshments Food and drink is generally allowed in the auditorium with the exception of symphonic performances.

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Ways to Enhance your Experience Make the Most of Your Experience With These Special Opportunities Before, During and After the Show.

When you think of Stephens Auditorium, we hope you think of it not just as a venue for seeing the performing arts, but also as a place where you are engaged as an active participant in the arts. The following events will enhance your visit and make each experience more fulfilling.

Free Previews in the Celebrity Café: Engaging presentations offered by experts, ISU faculty members or members of the professional touring group provide unique insights before each performance. Previews are free for ticket holders and occur 30 minutes before curtain time. You’ll find the Celebrity Café on the ground floor, on the north side of the auditorium.

Pre-Show Dinners: We offer a pre-show meal prior to five shows in this year’s season: Once, Under the Streetlamp, Close to You! Music of the Carpenters, Chicago and National Symphony of Ukraine. The meal is held in the Scheman Building and includes entree, starch, vegetable, dessert, beverages and cash bar. With an informative presentation or live entertainment to set the mood, it is a great way to begin a fun-filled evening with like-minded arts supporters.

Educational Experiences for Youth Youth Matinee Series Parents and educators know that helping a student develop creativity and imagination is one of the most important things they can do.

Helping to complete the education formula, our Youth Matinee Series energizes, engages and enhances the overall learning process for students through the magic and wonder of live performing arts produced by professional touring artists.These performances enrich students’ lives and illustrate the dynamic relationship between literature, social studies, history, science, math, world cultures and the performing arts. The Youth Matinee Series is underwritten by the Martha-Ellen Tye Performing Arts Institute endowment.

Martha-Ellen Tye Performing Arts Institute The Martha-Ellen Tye Performing Arts Institute was established through a generous endowment by long-time Marshalltown resident, the late Martha-Ellen Tye. It brings a unique blend of arts experiences to students of all ages through matinee performances, teaching activities in schools, demonstrations and workshops. Now in its 16th year, the program has served more than 200,000 students in grades PreK-12 from across the state of Iowa.

Mrs. Tye believed strongly in the power and importance of arts education and vigorously supported programs that develop the “whole person — body, mind and spirit.” The Youth Matinee Series is underwritten by this endowment, which allows us to keep the price at $4.

To learn more about these performances, contact Sara Compton, Outreach Coordinator, at 515-294-7389, e-mail scompton@iastate.edu, or visit www.center.iastate.edu.

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Iowa State Center Staff Tammy Koolbeck............................................................................................ Executive Director Missy Borton................................................................................................ Executive Assistant Business & Finance Emily Ladewig.............................................................................................. Business Manager Helen Nelson................................................................................................. Accounting Clerk Event & Conference Services Pat Dennis........................................................................................... Director of Event Services Angie Weeks................................................................................................... Sales Manager Dave Burrack.................................................................................................... Event Manager Josh Oakland............................................................................................... Event Coordinator Guest & Client Services Tim Hinderks........................................................................................... Director of Operations Sandra Robinson.................................................................................. Guest Services Manager Steve Flack..................................................................................... Custodial Services Manager Greg Gerstein................................................................................................... Custodial Staff Marketing Holly Boman............................................................................................ Director of Marketing Kara Bernstein................................................................................................. Marketing Intern Rachel Pollastrini.............................................................................................. Marketing Intern Development Paul Ferrone........................................................................................... Development Manager Food & Beverage Craig Spillman................................................................................ Director of Food & Beverage Kevin Streiff....................................................................................................... Executive Chef Katie Ginapp.............................................................................................. Catering Manager Kristen Thompson....................................................................... Banquet & Catering Coordinator Programming & Technical Craig Wiebke......................................................................... Director of Event Services Theaters Mike Broich.................................................................................................. Technical Director Jake Ewalt..................................................................................................... Technical Director Outreach & Education Sara Compton............................................................................................. Outreach Manager Carol Lamb...................................................................................................Outreach Assistant Ticket Office Nick Kaizer............................................................................... Associate Ticket Office Manager Janae Ver Helst...................................................................... Ticket Office & Marketing Associate

Dedicated Volunteers Ames International Orchestra Festival Association Board of Directors 2015-2016 Peter Reilly, President Matt Nelson , Vice President David Stephenson, Treasurer Dario Zaffarano, Secretary Jim Beckwith Aaron Fultz Noelle Fultz David Hoffman Jack Horner Dave Millard Wendy Nutini Bion Pierson Suzy Shierholz James Tener Melanie Sullivan - Student Rep.

The Stephens Street Team The Stephens Street Team unites the Iowa State Center and ISU by celebrating the importance of the arts in our lives. Its mission is to promote the arts to ISU students through unique marketing efforts and special events. The Stephens Street Team will plan events and lead marketing activities and develop creative ways to reach out to the student body at ISU about the incredible, affordable and accessible activities at the Iowa State Center.

Activities may include planning on-campus promotional activities or philanthropic events that relate to shows, assisting with performance day activities, sidewalk chalking, flyer distribution, presentations to campus organizations about our Performing Arts Series and more!

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Lisa Rock (Lead vocals/writer) has been performing this show nationally in over 33 states for the past seven years to sold-out crowds. She’s written more than 25 original concerts and cabarets that have been seen across the country. Now, Rock has arranged a six-piece band, complete with back-up singers, and together they are dedicated to creating a Carpenters experience like no other. Rock’s amazing four octave range allows her to sing the hits like “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays” in their original key, keeping the songs genuine and more recognizable for the audience. “When she hits the lower range of her marvelous voice,” notes critic Alan Bresloff, “if you close your eyes, you can see Karen Carpenter’s face.”

Theodore Berry IV (bass guitar) discovered the electric bass in his freshman year at Columbia College Chicago, while pursuing and attaining his BA in Audio Arts & Acoustics with a concentration in Live Sound Reinforcement. He has performed internationally and nationally in different genres. From country to reggae, he doesn’t discriminate.

He loves music! His job outside of being a musician is in the audio engineering world whether it’s corporate AV or live bands. So far, the best part of his journey is being able to play bass for the love of his world, Krystal Metcalfe, in her band! When he is not playing or running sound, his hobbies include reading, reading… and reading.

Robert Dietz (backing vocals/keyboard) is a pianist, singer and music director. Recent Chicagoland credits include conductor/keyboard at the Mercury Theatre, Elgin Community College, and Jedlicka

Performing Arts Center. Bobby teaches piano and has always been an avid Carpenters fan.

Eric Engelson (drums) is a self-taught musician. Eric has been drumming since the age of three and turned his passion into his profession five years ago. Though his home is typically that seedy underbelly of the Chicago theater community known as the musicians’ pit, you can occasionally see Eric with Alien Queen or as a sub musician for Million Dollar Quartet. Eric has been fortunate to work on productions with Chicago Childrens’ Theater, House Theater, Stage Door Fine Arts, Bailiwick Theater, Studio BE, Circle Theater, Strawdog Theater, Columbia College, The New Colony and, of course, Redmoon.

Sari Greenberg (backing vocals/rhythm instruments) is a singer, songwriter and actor whose past roles include Young Frankenstein (Elizabeth), Ring of Fire (June Carter) and the national tour of Bad Romance where she played Lady Gaga (luckily without the meat dress). Sari performed in the concert, “If It Wasn’t For the Irish and the Jews” at Chicago’s Symphony Center with actor Martin Sheen. She continues to tour in the original musical, Moishe Oysher. Sari can also be seen and heard in numerous voiceover and television commercials. Sari is a super fan of Lisa Rock and is ecstatic and grateful to share the stage with all this talent in this spectacular concert.

Ian Letts (Reeds) is an up-and-coming saxophonist in the Chicago area. Having recently graduated from Northern Illinois University with degrees in Jazz Performance and Music

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Education, Ian has had the privilege of studying with saxophone professors Stephen Duke, Rich Moore and Geof Bradfield, as well as other jazz faculty members including Ron Carter, Art Davis, Kelly Sill, Fareed Haque, Willie Pickens, Tom Garling, and Rodrigo Villanueva. While attending Northern Illinois University, Ian performed in the NIU Jazz Ensemble for two years. Through affiliation with the NIU Jazz Ensemble, Ian has had the fortune to perform with high caliber jazz artists such as Randy Brecker, Ernie Watts, Victor Lewis, Wycliffe Gordon, Steve Davis, Brian Lynch, Paquito D’Rivera, and Terrell Stafford. Ian is currently a member of CRISP, the Pete Ellman Big Band, and the Jose Valdez Mambo All-Stars.

Rachel Page (piano/music director) is a performer, pianist and voice teacher.

She has performed and taught all over the country. Rachel has been a part of Second City Touring Company (including two contracts on Norwegian Cruise Line), Underscore Theatre, Windy City Music Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, and Fox Valley Repertory Theatre, to name a few. Rachel is also part of the cabaret duo Side By Side.

When not on stage, she can be found on her piano bench, telling her students not to work so hard and to stop breathing so much. rachelpagesings.com

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Singing For Peace Around The World In 2014 Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the South African a cappella group formed by Joseph Shabalala during the 1960’s, was awarded their fourth Grammy Award for the CD Singing for Peace Around the World. Not just a CD title but a statement of the group’s career mission. It was Nelson Mandela who designated Ladysmith Black Mambazo “South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the world.” It’s a title Ladysmith Black Mambazo holds quite dearly to their hearts. Nelson Mandela passed away in 2013 and the group dedicated the Grammy Award to him. They have been celebrating Mandela’s message of peace at every concert they perform.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo returns to the USA in 2017 for their annual celebration of South African culture and history. They will sing songs of peace, love & harmony to the world as they have since their very beginnings.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo was founded in the early 1960s by Joseph Shabalala, then a young farm boy turned factory worker.

Ladysmith is the name of Joseph’s hometown, a small farming area between Durban and Johannesburg; Black being a reference to the oxen, the strongest of all farm animals; and Mambazo, the Zulu

word for chopping axe, a symbol of the group’s ability to “chop down” any singing rival who might challenge them. Their ability won so many awards that by the end of the 1960’s they were banned from competitions, although they were welcomed to participate as entertainers.

A radio broadcast in 1970 opened the door to their first record contract – the beginning of an ambitious discography that currently includes more than fifty recordings, fifteen Grammy Award nominations and those four Grammy Award statues. They are currently recording a follow up CD to the recent Grammy winner, titled Songs of Peace & Love for Kids & Parents Around the World. It is very important to the group that their message of peace be passed from generation to generation. By recording songs of peace that parents can teach their children, the group hopes to continue the message for decades to come. Their philosophy in the studio is as much about preservation of musical heritage as it is about entertainment.

Apartheid, the South African social system forced upon the country’s black majority to keep the white minority government in power, was a dividing force in many

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ways. The musicians and artists of South Africa took two paths of resistance. Some sang songs with powerful messages of revolution against the horrors of apartheid.

Others, like Ladysmith Black Mambazo, followed a path of peaceful protest. Joseph Shabalala, following the ways of protest that Martin Luther King Jr. used in the USA, wrote songs of hope and a better tomorrow.

When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, in 1990, he named Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s singing as one of the powerful messages of peace he listened to while in jail. In fact, when Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 he brought Ladysmith Black Mambazo with him to Oslo, Norway to receive his award.

The group sings a form of traditional music called isicathamiya (is-cot-a-ME-Ya), which developed in the mines of South Africa, where black workers were taken by rail to work far away from their homes and their families. Poorly housed and paid worse, the mine workers would entertain themselves after a six-day week by singing songs into the wee hours on Sunday morning. When the miners returned to the homelands, this musical tradition returned with them.

During the 1970s Ladysmith Black Mambazo established themselves as the most successful singing group in South Africa. In the mid-1980s, Paul Simon

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visited South Africa and incorporated the group’s rich tenor/alto/bass harmonies into his famous Graceland album – a landmark recording that was considered seminal in introducing world music to mainstream audiences.

In addition to their work with Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has recorded with numerous artists, including Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Sarah McLachlan, Josh Groban, Emmylou Harris, Melissa Etheridge, and many others. They have provided film soundtrack singing for Disney’s The Lion King, Part II as well as Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America, Marlon Brando’s A Dry White Season, James Earl Jones’ Cry the Beloved Country and Clint Eastwood’s Invictus. A film documentary titled On Tip Toe: Gentle Steps to Freedom, the Story of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, was nominated for an Academy Award. They have even appeared on Broadway where they were nominated for a Tony Award.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo carries a message of peace, love and harmony as they travel the world year after year. They bring this message, in song and dance, to every theater they perform in. We hope you will join them as they sing their message.

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