Chipola Artist Series Announces 2022-2023 Season

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The 2022-2023 season promises to be an exciting line-up of great entertainment for all ages opening September 8, 2022 with THE QUEEN’S CARTOONISTS.  The Queen’s Cartoonists play music from classic cartoons and contemporary animation. The performances are synchronized to video projections of the original films, and the band leads the audience through a world of virtuosic musicianship, multi-instrumental mayhem, and comedy. Behind the project is a single question: is it possible to create jazz and classical music in the 21st century that appeals to everyone? Even people who normally wouldn’t go to concerts? The Queen’s Cartoonists present a concert for everybody - regardless of age, gender, or familiarity with the concert hall. Tying this diverse concert together are comedic anecdotes involving the cartoons and their composers. The band is on a musical mission of equal parts performance, preservation, and education. Expect the unexpected from repertoire that in­cludes the Golden Age of animation, cult cartoon classics, modern animation, and elements of a musical circus! Learn more at www.thequeenscartoonists.com/

MASTERS OF SOUL comes to the Chipola stage on Thursday, October 27, 2022.  Motown and its legendary sound take center stage with all of its incredible harmonies and smooth moves when Masters of Soul performs. The show is a tribute to the artists who defined an era in our country’s history that produced many of the greatest music acts ever recorded: The Temptations, Four Tops, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Smokey Robinson and James Brown. For many, Masters of Soul is the ultimate stroll down memory lane. For younger generations, the show offers an opportunity to experience the sound, the costumes, the dance moves of Motown and soul that became the fabric of the 1960s and 1970s.

The season rounds out on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 with “The Cutest Magician of All Time” JEKI YOO.  Over 13 million people watched Korean Magician Jeki Yoo on America’s Got Talent as he performed his own unique style of close-up magic. Jeki won the hearts of a nation. As a high school student, Jeki Yoo won Asia’s greatest magic contest, The Busan International Magic Festival. His magic was innovative, inspired other magicians, and roused applause from audiences around the globe with its fresh originality. Jeki won a close-up magic award from the International Brotherhood of Magicians, the world’s largest organization of ma­gicians. Since then, Jeki and his magic have wowed audiences in England, France, Sweden, Italy, Japan, China, Scotland and many other countries.

Season tickets go on sale Aug. 22.  Season tickets—$50—are a bargain price when compared to sister institutions where prices are double or triple this amount.  Season ticket holders receive reserved seating renewal privileges for the next season. Patrons who are renewing their season tickets may contact the Box Office beginning Aug. 22.

Single event ticket prices this year are $20 for adults, $10 for children under 18, and $5 for Chipola students and employees.  Single event tickets go on sale Aug. 29. 

For more information, call the Center for the Arts Box Office at 850-718-2420 or visit www.chipola.edu/boxoffice.  The Box Office will open for the Fall Semester on Monday, Aug. 22.  Box Office hours are Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m. – Noon.