Dave Bennett Quartet performance to round out BCPA season in May

BRIGHTON — The Brighton Center for Performing Arts will present a performance by the Dave Bennett Quartet for the center's final event of the season in May.

The performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at 7878 Brighton Road on the Brighton High School campus. Tickets are $26 for adults, $23 for seniors and $18 for students. A $2 processing fee is added to all tickets.

"Dave Bennett doesn’t fit the mold," a release states. "For starters, you don’t find many jazz clarinet players who name Alice Cooper, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Chris Isaak among their influences."

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"You won’t find many musicians who are equally conversant with the music of Benny Goodman (the “King of Swing”) and Roy Orbison (“The Soul of Rock and Roll”)," according to the release. "In fact, you may not find even one other clarinet virtuoso who breaks from his Swing Era repertoire to sing rockabilly hits while accompanying himself at the piano or electric guitar."

Bennett, who in 2013 was featured as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops, began touring nationally at 14 years old. He has also been featured by dozens of orchestras in the U.S. and Canada.

Buy tickets online at brightonperformingarts.com or call the box office at 810-299-4130.

— Contact reporter Jennifer Eberbach at [email protected].

This article originally appeared on Livingston Daily: Dave Bennett Quartet performance to round out BCPA season in May