Summer Events at Berklee Performance Center

Second Wind Tour: This Changes Everything
Wednesday, June 4 at 1:00 p.m.

For millions of adults, aging is a dirty word. We live in a youth-obsessed culture in which every race goes to the swiftest and every prize to the most aggressive. The Second Wind tour invites you to join a new conversation exploring evidence-based approaches to growth, change, aging, health, and wellness. FREE SHOW

James Blake

Tuesday, June 10 at 7:30 p.m. Celebrated singer, songwriter, and producer James Blake has grown immensely on his journey into a veritable critical darling and online phenomenon, but his mystique is only blossoming further. Blake’s eponymous release was ranked one of the top albums of 2011 by Pitchfork, Mojo, and Uncut. His second full-length album, Overgrown, has received immense acclaim from fans and press alike. Counting Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, and Joni Mitchell amongst the ranks of his high-profile supporters, Blake’s music continues to be met with overwhelming support.

Tickets: $36 / Reserved

An Intimate Evening With Art Garfunkel

Saturday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m. Although it has been 40 years since Bridge Over Troubled Water was recorded, Art Garfunkel's image and signature vocals remain among the most instantly recognizable in popular music. His "beautiful countertenor," as Neil Strauss described Garfunkel's voice in The New York Times, is clear, resonant, and surely one of the finest instruments in all of popular music. Garfunkel is a time-honored friend to a world of listeners.

Be a part of an intimate evening of songs, anecdotes, prose and an audience Q&A session during this acoustic performance. 

Tickets: $55 /$65 / Reserved

Vocal Summit: Faculty Showcase

Monday, June 23 at 7:00 p.m. Faculty members from Berklee's Vocal Summit perform contemporary music of all types. The showcase will include Gabrielle Goodman, Adrian Sicam, Alli Beaudry, Andrea Capozzoli, Tom Baskett, and Christine Fawson.

Tickets: $12 / General Admission

Vocal Summit: Peter Eldridge 

Tuesday, June 24 at 7:00 p.m. Peter Eldridge is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and a founding member of the vocal group New York Voices (NYV), which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. NYV has recorded eight albums. Two of their collaborative projects have received Grammys: one with the Count Basie Orchestra and the other with Paquito D’Rivera. Eldridge performs, composes, arranges, records, and teaches. Following nearly 20 years at the Manhattan School of Music as the head of its graduate Jazz Voice Department, he joined the Voice Department faculty at Berklee last year.

Tickets: $12 / General Admission

Vocal Summit: Overboard
Wednesday, June 25 at 7:00 p.m. Having come a long way from its humble street performing roots, Boston vocal band Overboard can be heard serving up high-powered, soul-infused vocal rock from Maine to California and beyond. Since its inception in 2006, Overboard has been featured by the likes of American Idol, The CBS Early Show, Puma, and Mitsubishi. Overboard has been nominated for 10 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards and 18 A Cappella Community Awards in the last three years.

Tickets: $12 / General Admission 

Tim Miller

Monday, July 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tim Miller is an American jazz guitarist. He has released three recordings as a leader: Sides, Trio and Trio Volume 2. He is the co-author of Creative Chordal Harmony for Guitar (Berklee Press/Hal Leonard), written with Mick Goodrick. Miller is a professor at Berklee and has performed and/or recorded with artists including Paul Motian, Gary Burton, George Duke, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Jerry Bergonzi, among others.

Tickets: $12 / General Admission

Tommy Emmanuel

Tuesday, July 8 at 7:30 p.m. Two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel is one of Australia’s most respected musicians. The legendary guitarist boasts a professional career that spans five decades and continues to intersect with some of the finest musicians throughout the world. A household name in his native Australia, Emmanuel has garnered hundreds of thousands of loyal fans worldwide. His unique style, which he simply calls “finger style,” is akin to playing the guitar the way a pianist plays a piano: using all 10 fingers. Rather than using a whole band for melody, rhythm, bass, and drum parts, Emmanuel plays all of that and more on one guitar. Guitar legend Chet Atkins was one of the first to inspire Emmanuel to try out fingerpicking the guitar as a child. Decades later, Atkins himself became one of Emmanuel's biggest fans.

Tickets: $36.50 / General Admission

Jeffrey Lockhart

Wednesday July 9, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. Guitarist and Berklee professor Jeffrey Lockhart has performed with Meshell Ndegeocello, Mike Clark, Bill Summers, Sam Kininger Band, and Lettuce, among others. He has recorded with Beyoncé and Dido, and is the former musical director for Brian McKnight.

Tickets: $12 / General Admission

Nicholas Urie Large Ensemble: The Music of John Scofield

Wednesday, August 6 at 8:00 p.m. The Nicholas Urie Large Ensemble will perform Urie's arrangements of music composed by John Scofield – a Berklee alumnus This collection of arrangements was commissioned by Denmark's Klüvers Big Band for their Scandinavian tour with Scofield in 2010 and includes pieces written throughout the guitarist's career. Urie, an assistant professor at Berklee, is an active arranger and has been commissioned to write music for concerts, recordings, and television broadcasts with artists such as Vince Mendoza, Kurt Elling, Donny McCaslin, Bill Stewart, and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, among others.

Tickets: $12 / General Admission 

Information & Tickets: http://www.berklee.edu/events/berklee-performance-center