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What: Ben Jones @ Birdland

When: Monday August 18 19:00

On Monday, August 18 at 7pm, Award-winning vocalist Ben Jones and Grammy Award-winning pianist Laurence Hobgood join forces for a concert experience that is at once raw, refined, and transcendent.

Jones and Hobgood strip beloved songs down to their essence — just voice and piano, in seamless, uninterrupted flow. Each performance is a high-wire act of intimacy and virtuosity: no band, no filler, no fourth wall. Whether they’re reinventing a jazz standard or daring to reframe a pop hit, these two artists meet in the moment to create something unrepeatable and unforgettable. The setlist includes reimagined classics from jazz, Broadway, and pop, woven together by improvised transitions that create a singular, uninterrupted arc.

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Who: Ben Jones

Cabaret

Ben Jones is an award-winning singer, comedian, storyteller and actor who has appeared in front of audiences worldwide. He’s shared the spotlight with the likes of Rita Moreno, Michael Tilson Thomas, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Helmuth Rilling, Michael Morgan, Val Diamond and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Ben’s versatile voice has been featured on recordings on the Albany, Naxos and Delos labels, on A Prairie Home Companion, on the soundtracks for the best-selling video game franchises Halo and Civilization, and on commercials for Coors Light and Meow Mix.

Ben made his Carnegie Hall debut virtually in 2021, performing a selection from Greg Pliska and Charles Moorey’s new Musical A Most Dangerous Man in Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope festival.

He was most recently seen in Off-Broadway productions of Twist of Fate and Brooklyn’s Bridge at The York Theatre. Ben received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Performance in a Musical for his portrayal of Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game. Two of his solo shows–I Think I’m in Love and I Think We Should See Other People–were featured in BroadwayWorld’s Best of 2022.

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