The Daily Bulletin

The Buffalo State Performing Arts Center proudly announces its fall 2019 Great Performers Series, presented by M&T Bank. Performances at the newly renovated Performing Arts Center include smooth jazz keyboardist Keiko Matsui; saxophonist Kim Waters along with his daughter Kayla Waters; Emmy Award–winning actor and comedian Jeremy Piven; and Peter White Christmas with Euge Groove, Vincent Ingala, and Lindsey Webster. 

Tickets for the Great Performers Series are on sale now; all shows are priced between $35 and $45. Tickets may be purchased at the Buffalo State Performing Arts Center Box Office in Rockwell Hall, by phone at 878-3005, or online at www.buffalostatepac.org. Box Office hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Opening the series on Friday, November 8, is the critically acclaimed chart-topping smooth jazz keyboardist Keiko Matsui. Matsui has worked alongside such musical icons as Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Hugh Masekela, and Bob James. Her 1998 album Full Moon and the Shrine was accompanied by the award-winning PBS special Keiko Matsui: Light Above the Trees, which earned her a National Smooth Jazz Award for Best Long-Form Video Achievement and Best Female Artist. Matsui's 2001 CD Deep Blue topped Billboard's Contemporary Jazz charts for three consecutive weeks. More recently, her 2016 release of Journey to the Heart debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Charts, and this year's 2019 chart-topping album Echo further cements Matsui's place as one of the most dynamic voices in instrumental music.

For complete details on this and other shows in the fall 2019 Great Performers Series, please visit the Performing Arts Center website.