Holli Harms

6 days ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli HarmsThe ambience in the room was charged with excitement, anticipation of not knowing what to expect, and hopeful wonderment of the promise of free form expression. The theme of the evening, if there was one, “Let’s See What Happens.” And what happened at the New York Irish Center was a fusion of Irish and Brazilian Samba that created an earth-shattering beauty that is our essence, our deepest truth.

1 month ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli Harms“Celia Berk: For The Record” is an evening of songs that are not that well known. Once you hear the music though, the sounds are oh so familiar, the melodies already have a place in your heart, and Celia’s vocal range will take you into the time of the heyday of jazz when life was not fraught with phones, text, emails, instagrams, and all the distractions that keep us from the beauty of the moments of everyday magic. This is s ode to the unknown songs of maestros and quiet creators.

1 month ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli Harms Mingus Big Band, formed by Charles Mingus’ widow Sue Mingus, and now playing at Birdland Jazz Club, is a force to be reckoned with —emotionally charged, musically based non-stop energy. Charles Mingus, virtuoso bass player and visionary of music whose compositions transcend melody and rhythm with kinetic reimagining and human emotion, was like no other composer.

1 month ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli HarmsMoving images, live wonderful piano accompaniment (Noah Turner), dance, poetical words, and a story that is itself musical, are all part of James Manuel Meneses‘ new play Healing Mined. This is a play about loss and grief. Loss of a wife, a mother, a friend. What the play does is teach us to mine our pain. Going down into the labyrinth of grief, where it is dark, deep, and so all-encompassing that life no longer feels manageable. Sleep is the only way to hide from it.

1 month ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

by Holli HarmsIt is Monday night, and Dan Jr. has five more days to go before he stages his big comeback. Well, not his comeback so much as his actual fight. Circumstances beyond his control kept him from his battle five years ago. The fight that would have made father and family proud. This is the opening to the gripping,  Fight Night, now playing at 59E59 Theaters. Dan Jr’s family members are known boxing men.