Flamenco guitar virtuoso Jesse Cook will perform in Syracuse one night only, Saturday, June 7, to benefit Syracuse Stage.
Jesse Cook
The concert will start at 9 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center on the Syracuse University campus.
Doors open at 8:45 p.m. General admission tickets are $30. For more information and to purchase tickets, call the Syracuse Stage Box Office at 315-443-3275 or visit the Syracuse Stage website.
Cook and his band incorporate elements of flamenco rumba, jazz and many forms of world music. Cook is known internationally as one of the most influential figures in Nuevo Flamenco music. His music has been featured on “Sex and the City,” “The Chris Isaak Show” and in several Olympic Games.
Cook’s Syracuse concert will be part of the Syracuse Stage Gala, an annual fundraiser presented by the Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees and the Syracuse Stage Guild. This year’s event will celebrate Stage’s founding artistic director Arthur Storch (1925 – 2013). In addition, Jim Clark will be honored for his longtime leadership of Stage. The honorary chair of the Gala is Louis G. Marcoccia, president of Syracuse Stage’s Board of Trustees and executive vice president and chief financial officer of Syracuse University. Co-chairs of the Gala are Fran Nichols (vice chair of Syracuse Stage’s Board of Trustees and vice chairman of Eric Mower + Associates) and Jacki Goldberg (Syracuse Stage Guild board member).
Tickets for the gala (which include the Jesse Cook concert) are $200-$300. For more information about the gala, visit the Syracuse Stage website.
