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SUMMARY:Bianca Del Rio
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n \nDoors open at 7 p.m.\, show starts at 8 p.m.
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/bianca-del-rio/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191101T200000
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SUMMARY:Paula Poundstone
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\n \nPaula Poundstone is a humorist\, author and comedian known for her clever\, observational humor and spontaneous wit. When she isn’t collecting hotel soaps while on tour or panel-ing on NPR’s #1 show\, Wait\, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!\, Paula hosts the popular Maximum Fun podcast\, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. Nobody is a comedy field guide to life complete with taste tests\, cats of the weeks and leading experts in everything from beekeeping to ping pong to prosopagnosia (say that 3 times fast). \nPaula’s stand-up credentials are endless: Cats\, Cops and Stuff; Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard; Look What the Cat Dragged In; and numerous television appearances including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, Last Call with Carson Daly and Late Show with David Letterman. Famously\, Paula provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and was the first woman to host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. \nIn 2017\, Paula released her second book\, The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search For Human Happiness\, in which she offers herself up as a guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments. Kirkus Reviews called the book\, “A deeply revealing memoir in which the pathos doesn’t kill the humor—delivers more than it promises.” The book debuted at #1 on the Amazon Bestsellers List in Humor\, and the audiobook was one of the five finalists for 2018 Audio Book of the Year. The book was recognized as one of eight semi-finalists for the Thurber Prize for American Humor\, the highest recognition of the art of humor writing in the United States. \nPaula can be heard on the big screen as “Forgetter Paula” in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out\, winner of the 2017 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. She has also starred in her own series on both HBO and ABC\, is included on Comedy Central’s Top 100 Comics of All Time and won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up. In February 2019\, Paula’s stand-up special\, Cats\, Cops and Stuff was named by TIME Magazine and Tig Notaro as one of The 5 Funniest Stand-Up Specials Ever. \nPaula resides in Santa Monica\, CA\, where you can find her sifting the litterboxes of her 14 cats: Clue\, Oreo\, Luigi\, Jem\, Belle\, Brittle\, Mrs. Feziwig\, Wednesday\, Severus\, Tonks\, Theo\, Sham Wow\, Harrison\, and Hardy. \nWebsite @www.paulapoundstone.com. Follow her on: twitter.com/paulapoundstone\, facebook.com/paulapoundstone and instagram.com/paulapoundstone. \nDoors open at 7 p.m.\, show begins at 8 p.m.
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/paula-poundstone/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191029T200000
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SUMMARY:Cody Ko and Noel Miller: Tiny Meat Gang Live
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URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/cody-ko-and-noel-miller-tiny-meat-gang-live/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191025T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191025T213000
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SUMMARY:Whose Live Anyway?
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\n\nThe current cast members of the Emmy-nominated TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? are proud to present their new improv tour: WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY?\, appearing live in concert at the Lyric Theatre October 25 at 8 p.m. \nWHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? is 90 minutes of hilarious improvised comedy and song all based on audience suggestions. Cast members Greg Proops\, Jeff B. Davis\, Dave Foley\, and Joel Murray will leave you gasping with the very witty scenes they invent before your eyes. Audience participation is key to the show\, so bring your suggestions and you might be asked to join the cast onstage! \nWHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? showcases some of the improv games made famous on the long-running TV show as well as some exciting new ones\, featuring musical direction by Bob Derkach. All ages welcome. \nDoors open at 7 p.m.\, show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/whose-live-anyway/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190525T193000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Piff the Magic Dragon - CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, we must cancel Piff the Magic Dragon’s upcoming show scheduled for May 25\, 2019. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Refunds for this show will be available at point of purchase.  \nBuy Tickets\n\n50% Comedian. 50% Magician. 100% Dragon. \nAfter earning national acclaim as the standout star of NBC’s America’s Got Talent and Penn & Teller: Fool Us\, Piff The Magic Dragon continues to win over audiences across the globe with his mythical mixture of wizardry\, wit and sarcasm that ignites a one-of-a-kind comedy magic show you have to see to believe! Joined by his trusty sidekick Mr Piffles\, The World’s Only Magic Performing ChihuahuaTM\, the dynamic duo perform nightly to sold out rooms at his residency at the world-famous Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas in the newly renamed Piff the Magic Dragon Theatre. In addition to the residency\, Piff along with Jade Simone\, a genuine Las Vegas Showgirl\, and Francis the Squire\, a.k.a. the Eunuch in a Tunic\, are currently performing across the US and Canada as part of their 2018 tour The Dog Who Knows. \nAlthough he might not be as famous as his older brother — Steve —there’s no doubt the recent years following his loss on season 10 of AGT have been monumental for the act voted Best Comedian in the 2018 Best of Las Vegas Awards. Piff and Mr Piffles have performed to hundreds of thousands in some of the most iconic venues across the globe including Radio City Music Hall\, Shakespeare’s Globe\, the O2\, and the Sydney Opera House. His Las Vegas residency has been extended throughout 2019 due to popular demand\, smashing all box office records over this last summer. Earlier this year\, Piff filmed his first one-hour special featuring his good friend\, Penn Jillette. And most recently\, Piff was nominated for “Casino Comedian of the Year” alongside Bill Engvall and Sebastian Maniscalco\, and performed his acclaimed show at the 2018 Just For Laughs in Montreal and at the William H. Macy Gala.\nPreviously\, Piff opened for Mumford & Sons on their 17 date UK tour and even graced the cover of their Grammy award winning album Babel. He also performed five record breaking runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, had two sellout seasons at Soho Theatre in London’s West End\, and completed a national tour of the UK and Australia. \n“Piff is the best! A True Original.” – David Copperfield\n“A phenomenal talent” – Howard Stern \n“Sensational. A masterclass in character” – Derren Brown \n“Call him unique\, call him an icon\, whatever you call him\, Piff will leave you asking… ‘how are you going to top a guy in a dragon suit?’’ – New York Times \n“I saw Piff for the first time when he walked out on our stage to do our show Penn & Teller: Fool Us. He opened with a dragon sneeze of fire\, and then he did a baffling card trick. There’s a rule about comedy magicians—they aren’t funny and they aren’t baffling. Piff is different. Piff had the audience screaming in laughter\, and he fooled the pants off every one of them.” – Penn Jillette \nDoors open at 6:30 p.m.\, show begins at 7:30 p.m. \n“Piff Private Party” (must have a ticket to purchase)\nDoors will open at 5:45 p.m. for attendees.\nThis is a personal experience with the fans which includes: \n– A poster signed by Piff \n– A photo with Piff and / or Mr. Piffles \n– A chance to get a video shout out to kid or friend from Piff \n– A chance to win Mr. Piffles \n– A one on one magic trick \n  \n 
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/piff-the-magic-dragon/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:John Crist - Live Filming
DESCRIPTION:3:00 show tickets\n7:00 show tickets\n \nSince this show is a live filming event and there has to be space for cameras and production\, seating is very limited for this event. \nDoors open one hour before showtime.
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/john-crist-live-filming-2/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190512T150000
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SUMMARY:John Crist - Live Filming
DESCRIPTION:3:00 show tickets\n7:00 show tickets\n \nSince this show is a live filming event and there has to be space for cameras and production\, seating is very limited for this event. \nDoors open one hour before showtime.
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/john-crist-live-filming/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Jeff Tweedy with special guest Buck Meek
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets Friday\, 11/30 at 7 p.m.\n \nDoors open at 6:30\, show starts at 7:30. \nA PERSON GETS TO A CERTAIN STAGE IN LIFE — I’m there myself — no longer in the throes of child-raising (that magnificent distraction)\, when he starts to think of death not as some abstraction that happens to other people but as a big\, indifferent train that\, even at this moment\, is rolling out of a station located at an unknown\, but not infinite\, distance away. “Isn’t it time\, now\, to finally be happy?” the universe starts asking\, along with a second\, complicating question: “But how can I be happy in a world like this?” Put another way: we seem born to love\, and yet everything here is conditional (i.e.\, comes to an end). How should we live when the huge piano labeled “Death” is eventually going to fall\, not only on us\, but on everyone we love? \nThis album is\, it seems to me\, an answer. Or\, more than an answer\, it’s a nod to the validity of the question. \nShould I be wary of life or enjoy it? the listener asks. \nYes\, Jeff Tweedy says. \n*** \nAfter many years of asking myself what art is for\, I’ve arrived at this: the role of the artist is to reach across space and time and console — to offer\, not a cure or a prescription\, but\, rather\, non-trivial consolation. \nJeff is our great\, wry\, American consolation-poet. I don’t mean this abstractly: to see him play is to find yourself in a crowd of people being actively consoled — being moved\, reassured\, validated\, made to feel like part of a dynamic aural friendship. Jeff told me once that what he’s trying to communicate to his listener is: “You’re OK. You’re not alone. I’m singing to you\, but I also hear you.” A testimony to the value Jeff places on this connection: after playing a number of solo acoustic shows in 2016 and 2017\, he decided to make an album of those songs that seemed to speak most directly to those audiences. \nWARM is that album. \n*** \nGreat art is really just great personhood in compressed form — a distillation of a human being that thrums with that being’s exact flavor. I’ve had this feeling meeting writers like David Foster Wallace\, Grace Paley\, Toni Morrison: a sense that years of hard work had refined what was personal in them into work that\, though infused with particularity\, has blossomed into universality. I have this feeling about Jeff and his music. The true mark of style in any art form is that\, within a few seconds\, you know who the artist is. Listen to five seconds of WARM and you’ll know it’s Jeff — by the sound of the guitars (the musical heart of the album is the circa-1930s Martin 0-18 that has been heard\, at least a little\, on every Wilco album\, and is used on every track on this record) and by that magnificent voice: friendly (but formidable); tender (yet skeptical); edgy (but warm); but also by some other quality that seems\, once things get going\, to be present even in the pauses\, some essential Jeffness that has come to be a vital component of my inner life over my many years of listening to him. \n*** \nFor a long time now\, it seems to me\, our culture has assumed that the function of art is to warn\, to blame\, to critique\, to scoff\, to dismiss. And those are some of its functions\, for sure. But an art that only does those things is destructive. Destruction already being the dominant mode of our culture\, we don’t need any more of it. Anyone who advocates “burning down the house” has likely never been inside a building on fire. By what do we really live? Our lives — our real lives — are made almost wholly of attempts at tenderness. We work hard on behalf of those we love\, daydream about their future happiness\, go out of our way to save them even the slightest pain\, comfort them when the pain arrives just the same. \nJeff is\, to my mind\, a warrior for kindness\, who has made tenderness an acceptable rock-n-roll virtue. By “tenderness” I don’t mean that New Age thing\, where someone drives a spike through your head and you place hands palm-to-palm and do a cheesy deep bow while thanking them for the new coat rack. No: Tweedy-tenderness is sophisticated and badass and funny. It proceeds from strength and good humor and does not preclude being angry or tough or peeved. It is based on the premise that you are as real as he is and as deserving of attention\, and that the world is worthy of our full and fearless interest\, just as it is. \n*** \nA poet is someone who lets language respond to language\, trusting that meaning and sound are good friends who\, given a little room\, will work things out. Jeff writes by getting a musical track together and then humming / mumbling along until he finds a melody\, which will start forming itself into words and phrases\, while he waits patiently to see what he has been wanting to say. This is a remarkably sensitive method that lets meaning come out on its own terms\, as subtly or overtly as it likes\, and I am somehow put in mind of fireflies (lightning bugs\, as we used to call them in Chicago)\, swelling into brightness and then being gone\, as you ask yourself: did I just see that? \nCertain lyrical flowers sprout up with regularity across the ten song-yards that are this record. A son who has lost a father sings to his wife\, his sons\, that father. There are apologies\, and mirror-twins; threats to enemies (“I’d love to take you down / and leave you there”) and entreaties (“Let’s go rain again!”) and dreamy challenges (“I wonder how much freedom we can dream”) and ornery morphings of language that serve a simple function: they make the listener love language again. \n“I leave behind / a trail of songs\,” Jeff sings in “Bombs above\,” “From the darkest gloom / to the brightest sun.” \nWhat can a song do in this world? Well\, you know. It can open a person right up. It can jolt you out of some bullshit state of mind\, of sloth\, of hubris. It can make that dead world out there suddenly come alive. It can make you (father\, husband\, son / mother\, wife\, daughter) newly aware that time is short and whatever love you have had better get spent\, pronto. It can make you fond of things — and of the writer — for causing all of that newness to appear in your tired\, old\, habituated mind\, which\, under the influence of the song\, is a kid again\, on a summer day. \n*** \nWARM is one of the most joyful\, celebratory\, infectious collections of songs I’ve heard in a long time. It’s intimate and yet vast and feels lovingly made\, by actual people\, in some particular place\, and not inside a computer. As I was listening\, I kept picturing a tight little cabin in the woods somewhere (the woods of Chicago?) under a big yellow moon\, with four or five Jeffs in there all playing different instruments\, and Spencer on drums\, and Susie and Sammy are there too\, and there’s a fire going\, and a feeling of love and discovery and fondness in the smoky air. \nAlso in there\, I think\, is the spirit of Jeff’s father\, Bob Tweedy\, who passed away in 2017. His death was\, as Jeff puts it\, “the death that most people would sign up for.” That is: he had what is called a “good death.” There was some concern that the family might not make it to his side on time\, but they did\, and he passed surrounded by love\, everyone rising to that profound occasion\, and apparently there may have been some singing involved. This is not the death everyone gets\, but Jeff’s father got it\, that strange and much-to-be-desired blessing. How must it affect one’s view of the world to see someone you love\, at the end of his life\, get the merciful gift of a dignified release? And so\, one of the things I find coursing through this record is gratitude\, even joy\, that such a thing can happen\, along with a sense of wonder at the realization that death\, for as much as we fear it\, does not actually negate anything\, or anything essential. \n“Oh\, I don’t believe in heaven\,” Jeff sings\, in the title track\, “I keep some heat inside. Like a red brick in the summer: warm when the sun has died.” What’s the red brick? That would be us\, you and me. And Jeff too. Where does that warmth come from? What is that mysterious thing that is sustaining us\, moment to moment (even in this moment)\, by infusing us with love and curiosity and a desire to go on? \nExactly\, says Jeff.                                                                                       — George Saunders
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/jeff-tweedy-with-special-guest-buck-meek/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Fred Armisen: Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome Tour
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n \nGet ready to laugh because Fred Armisen is bringing his ‘Comedy For Musicians but Everyone Is Welcome’ tour to the Lyric Theatre on February 5th. Don’t wait – tickets are ON SALE NOW: http://bit.ly/2GdbUFd
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/fred-armisen-comedy-for-musicians-but-everyone-is-welcome-tour/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181102T200000
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SUMMARY:David Cross Oh Come On Tour
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\n \nDoors open at 7 p.m.\, show begins at 8 p.m.
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/david-cross-oh-come-on-tour/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Anthony Jeselnik: Funny Games
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\n\nJeselnik is a comedy industry veteran wowing audiences for over 15 years. 2017 was a banner year for Anthony as he toured with Chris Rock’s Total Blackout tour and perfected his new hour\, workshopping in clubs across North America. He started his comedy career by starring in and creating Comedy Central’s THE JESELNIK OFFENSIVE\, which ran for two seasons. He went on to write and appear for several Comedy Central Roasts\, most notable: THE ROAST OF DONALD TRUMP and THE ROAST OF CHARLIE SHEEN. Anthony was the first ever stand-up comic to appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He also wrote for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as well as received an Emmy Nomination for his work on A NIGHT OF TOO MANY STARS: AN OVERBOOKED CONCERT FOR AUTISTIC EDUCATION. In 2008 Jeselnik was named as one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch\, and in 2009 was named Comedy Central’s Hot Comics. In 2010\, Anthony released his debut comedy album SHAKESPEARE through Comedy Central Records. In 2013\, he released CALIGULA\, his first hour long special\, to critical acclaim. Jeselnik hosted season nine of NBC’s LAST COMIC STANDING alongside judges Norm Macdonald\, Roseanne Barr and Keenan Ivory Wayans. His last official tour was in 2014 and ended in early 2015 when he shot his critically acclaimed Netflix special THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS. \nDoors open at 7 p.m.\, show begins at 8 p.m. \nTickets are available now through Ticketmaster. \n 
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/anthony-jeselnik-funny-games/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Live at the Lyric: Jake Shimabukuro
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce that Sunday’s show with Jake Shimabukuro at the Lyric Theatre has been moved to the intimate setting of the WorkPlay Theatre. All original tickets pictured will be honored will at the WorkPlay Box Office on the night of the show. To request a refund\, please email lauren@alabamatheatre.com. \n\n \nJake Shimabukuro can still vividly remember the first time he held a ukulele\, at age four. It was an encounter that would shape his destiny and give the world one of the most exceptional and innovative uke players in the history of the instrument—an artist who has drawn comparisons to musical titans such as Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. \n“My mom played\, and I kept bugging her to teach me\,” he recalls. “So one day we sat down on the floor and she put her old Kamaka ukulele in my hands. I remember being so nervous. Then she showed me how to strum the strings and taught me my first chord. I fell in love with the ukulele immediately. From that day on\, you had to pry the instrument away from me in order to get me to do anything else.” \nThat first brush with musical fate took place in Honolulu\, Hawai’i\, where Jake was born and still makes his home. Growing up\, he studied and played a number of other musical instruments—drums\, piano and guitar. “But none of those instruments spoke to me the way the ukulele did\,” he says. “There was something about the uke that was different. Music was my passion\, but I had no idea that I could make it as a musician. I always thought that maybe I’d be a school teacher and incorporate music into the classroom\, rather than being on a stage performing in front of people.” \nOf course\, Shimabukuro would end up performing on many of the world’s most renowned stages. Starting his career in Hawai’i\, he took his inspiration from some of the islands’ great uke players—Eddie Kamae\, Ohta-San and Peter Moon. But he quickly expanded his scope from there\, drawing influences from across the musical spectrum. \n“As I got older\,” he says\, “I realized that I could also learn from guitar players\, drummers\, violinists\, pianists\, singers and even dancers. And then I started to observe athletes. Athletes are artists too. I was heavily influenced by people like Bruce Lee and Michael Jordan – applying their philosophy and intense\, mental focus to music performance.” \nAs a member of the group Pure Heart\, Shimabukuro became a local phenomenon. From Hawai’i\, his fame next spread to Japan. He was signed to Epic Records (Sony/Japan) in 2001 as a solo artist. It was the start of what would become a deep catalog of solo albums\, noted for their dazzling fretwork\, ambitious repertoire and wistful melodicism. And in 2005\, Shimabukuro became an international phenomenon when a video of him performing the George Harrison song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral on YouTube. \n“At the time\, I didn’t even know what YouTube was\,” Jake laughs. “Nobody did\, especially in Hawai’i. But I had some friends who were going to college on the mainland and they sent me a link to the video. By the time I saw it\, it already had millions of views. My name wasn’t even on it then. All it said was ‘Asian guy shreds on ukulele\,’ or something like that. That’s what opened up the doors to touring in North America\, Europe\, Asia and beyond. It was a big turning point for me.” \nBy adapting a guitar hero anthem for the ukulele (Eric Clapton had played lead guitar on the Beatles’ original recording) Shimabukuro made a significant statement: The ukulele\, with its humble four strings and modest two-octave range\, is an instrument limited only by the imagination and creativity of the person playing it. Along with his own original compositions\, Jake became noted for his solo uke arrangements of such varied pieces as Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody\,” Schubert’s “Ave Maria” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” \n“A lot of those are just songs that I really love\,” he says. “I’d sit at home and work out how to play some of them on the ukulele. A lot of it is for my own curiosity. I always wondered\, ‘Man\, what would “Bohemian Rhapsody” sound like on a ukulele?’ And then it’s my stubborn nature not to give up until I’d figured out how to do it.” \nWidespread acclaim brought high-visibility collaborations with a wide range of artists including Yo-Yo Ma\, Jimmy Buffett\, Bette Midler\, Cyndi Lauper\, Jack Johnson\, Ziggy Marley\, Dave Koz\, Michael McDonald\, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones\, Tommy Emmanuel\, and Marty Friedman. Jake Shimabukuro has topped Billboard’s World Music Chart on numerous occasions\, and has sold out prestigious venues and festivals such as the Hollywood Bowl\, Lincoln Center\, Sydney Opera House\, Wolf Trap\, Bonnaroo\, SXSW\, and the Playboy Jazz Festival. He even played for Queen Elizabeth II at The Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool\, England. \nShimabukuro’s busy touring schedule—140 dates a year—is complemented by a rich and varied catalog of albums that capture the many moods of the uke. His most recent CD\, Nashville Sessions\, is one of his most adventurous\, multifaceted and engaging records to date\, blending elements of jazz virtuosity with heartfelt melodicism. \nA husband and father of two\, Jake balances his stellar career with \nfamily life and community service. He travels to schools around the world spreading positive messages to young people\, encouraging them to live drug free and find their passion—just as he did at age four when his mother gave him his first ukulele lesson. In the time since then\, he has played a key role in the current revival of interest in the ukulele. \n“When I first started touring the mainland\,” he recalls\, “everybody would say\, ‘Oh man\, I didn’t know you could play that kind of music on that thing.’ But now there are so many iconic artists playing the ukulele\, like Paul McCartney\, Eddie Vedder\, Train\, Jimmy Buffett\, Michael McDonald\, Dave Mathews and Taylor Swift. Even popular cartoons like ‘Peg + Cat’ and ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ have ukulele soundtracks. The popularity of the ukulele keeps growing every year. And I’m constantly discovering new sounds\, styles and expressive possibilities within the instrument through projects like the Nashville Sessions album. By the time we finished that recording\, I already had tons of ideas for the next album. I can’t wait to get back into the studio and experiment some more.”
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/live-at-the-lyric-jake-shimabukuro/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Concert
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SUMMARY:Tig Notaro
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \nTig Notaro is a standup comedian\, storyteller\, and writer originally from Mississippi. Tig writes\, produces\, and stars in the semi­-autobiographical comedy series One Mississippi\, premiering this fall through Amazon Studios. Her memoir\, I’m Just A Person\, released this year through Harper Collins Publishing\, is a New York Time s Bestseller. The Television Academy has acknowledged Tig with an Emmy nomination for her HBO stand­up special Boyish Girl Interrupted. Her Netflix Original documentary\, TIG\, premiered to critical acclaim and is available for streaming . You can also see Tig as “Barb” on Amazon’s Emmy Award­ winning series Transparent. \nIn 2013\, Tig was nominated for a Grammy Award for her standup release\, LIVE\, which sold over 100\,000 units in just six weeks. LIVE is a standup set delivered just days after Tig was diagnosed with invasive bilateral breast cancer. Tig has since announced her cancer to be in remission\, and remains a favorite on Conan and This American Life. In her time off\, Tig enjoys bird watching with her wife Stephanie\, their twin sons\, and cat Fluff\, at home in Los Angeles. \nTickets go on sale Wednesday\, April 5 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/tig-notaro/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Madigan: "The Mermaid Lady" Standup Comedy Tour
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n \nKathleen Madigan is a regular panelist on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore\, and she was nominated for a 2014 American Comedy Award for “Best Concert Comic.” Her third one hour special\, Madigan Again\, is currently available on Netflix and was named one of iTunes Best Comedy Albums. Her second one hour special\, Gone Madigan\, premiered on Showtime and is also available on Netflix. Previously she’s released 5 CDs\, 3 DVDs and starred in 2 HBO specials\, 3 Comedy Central specials. \nIn addition to 2 USO tours of Iraq and Afghanistan\, Madigan has performed on 5 CMT specials hosted by Ron White with all proceeds donated to the Armed Forces Foundation. \nThe Detroit Free Press and PopMatters.com featured Madigan as one of the “9 Funniest Women on the Planet” alongside Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Lewis Black calls her “the funniest comic in America\, bar none\,” and Ron White considers her “easily one of the best comics alive.” \nTickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.
URL:https://lyricbham.com/event/kathleen-madigan-the-mermaid-lady-standup-comedy-tour/
LOCATION:Lyric Theatre\, 1800 Third Avenue North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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