Michael Ingersoll and Christopher Kale Jones perform “Lean On Me”

Fellow PBS television favorites for “Under the Streetlamp” and former “Jersey Boys” co-stars Michael Ingersoll and Christopher Kale Jones reunite on stage at the Elgin Community College Arts Center on Friday, Nov. 8, to perform their concert “Lean On Me: The Brotherhood of Rock and Roll.”

During this celebration of friendship and music, Ingersoll and Jones will treat the audience to musical hits by The Everly Brothers, The Righteous Brothers, The Beatles, and many more. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m.

Ingersoll and Jones met while performing in “Jersey Boys.” Ingersoll starred as Nick Massi with the original Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles casts, while Jones starred as Frankie Valli with the original San Francisco, Los Angeles, and First National Tour casts. Favorites of PBS audiences, the two pals toured nationwide performing with the retro-rock vocal group Under the Streetlamp and co-starred in the quartet’s multiple PBS concert specials.

This concert is presented by Artists Lounge Live. Created by Michael and Angela Ingersoll, Artists Lounge Live is a dynamic concert series featuring popular music of yesterday performed live by tremendous talent of today. Rising stars of stage and screen pay homage to the icons that influenced them in emotional evenings of storytelling and song.

Tickets to “Lean On Me: The Brotherhood of Rock and Roll” are $36 and are available for purchase online at http://tickets.elgin.edu and by phone at 847-622-0300.

The Arts Center is located in Building H on Elgin Community College’s Spartan Drive Campus, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. The Arts Center is on Facebook at facebook.com/eccartscenter and Twitter at @eccartscenter. For more information on Artists Lounge Live, visit artistsloungelive.com.

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Office: 847-214-7838

Email: news@elgin.edu

Elgin Community College (ECC) is a comprehensive public community college, one of 48 statewide. ECC serves approximately 15,000 students each year. Programs of study include 25 major fields for university transfer, more than 130 career-oriented, occupational degrees and certificates, corporate and continuing education, and a full complement of pre-collegiate courses. The three-year graduation rate exceeds the national average and the average of peer colleges. ECC awards more than 2,200 degrees and certificates each year.

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