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Charlotte, NC –Blumenthal Performing Arts recently announced the addition of four new shows featuring the biggest names in comedy and concerts.  From television and movie legend William Shatner to the bluegrass style of Vince Gill to the blues and jazz of Madeline Peyroux to songwriting giants Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
Tickets are available now at BlumenthalArts.org, 704-372-1000 or from the box office in the Belk Theater lobby, 130 N. Tryon St. 
An Acoustic Evening of Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt
Watch history in the making as songwriting giants Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt team up for the first time together on the stage of the McGlohon Theater for a new show in which both artists – who have been touring together in one fashion or another since 1989 – will perform side-by-side, alternating songs from throughout their careers.
One of the most distinctive songwriters to come out of Nashville, four-time Grammy Award-winner Lyle Lovett is equally comfortable in pop, rock, blues and country. Eleven-time Grammy nominee John Hiatt melds rock, acoustic, folk, new wave and Mississippi Delta blues into songs recorded by some three-dozen artists over the last three decades, from Three Dog Night to Eric Clapton. This not-to-be-missed evening of stories and songs will feature memorable performances of country, rock, folk, blues and more.
This all ages’ show will encompass two music icons together performing songs that will delight lifetime fans and new listeners alike.
Shatner’s World – We Just Live In It
Go where no man has gone before. Literally. Television and movie superstar William Shatner will take audiences on a voyage through his life and career, from Shakespearean stage actor, to internationally known icon and raconteur, known as much for his unique persona, as for his expansive body of work. Join him as he invites us into Shatner’s World. With signature storytelling, video clips, & an inimitable musical style, William Shatner brings to stage the one man by whom we are all compared, himself.
Madeline Peyroux
Songstress Madeleine Peyroux is known to her fans for intimately arranged covers of the early American blues and jazz repertoire. She began as a teenage busker, honing her vocal and guitar skills on the famously quaint, acoustic streets of Europe, where she molded her style on the cornerstones of jazz: Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. Amidst an oddly sparse recording career beginning in 1996, she is most known for her 2005 release Careless Love (Rounder Records), produced by Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock) who fused Peyroux's personal and vulnerable take on more modern material, i.e., Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, cult legend Elliott Smith, with that of her beloved torch songs and early blues.
A Bluegrass Evening with Vince Gill
Vince Gill makes his Knight Theater debut with a special Bluegrass evening!
The singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist has recorded more than 17 studio albums, sold more than 26 million copies and won 20 Grammys and 18 CMA Awards. The two-time CMA Entertainer of the Year is the only man to ever win five consecutive CMA Male Vocalist of the Year awards and the only songwriter to win Song of the Year four times.
Those winning songs — “When I Call Your Name,” “Look At Us,” “I Still Believe In You” and “Go Rest High On That Mountain” — were among the stellar compositions that led to Gill’s 2005 induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Two years later, he became one of the youngest performers ever inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.