Stevie Ray Visited: The Music of Stevie Ray Vaughan
Friday, October 20, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $24 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $24
Balcony $34
Loge $39
Main Floor $49

This show is included in 2023-2024 full season tickets and half season package B. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+.

Stevie Ray Visited - The Music of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Experience a blues explosion as guitar-shredding master Roby Duron leads this spectacular tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most influential blues guitarists in history. Hear Pride and Joy, Crossfire, House is a Rockin’, Texas Flood and many more.

When Stevie Ray Visited bandleader Roby Duron was 12, his dad, a rockin’ Doors-influenced pianist, taught him to play a few chords, igniting Duron’s love for playing the blues, especially the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Today, Duron has mastered Vaughan’s style, and the band’s keyboardist Noel Deis actually played with Vaughan himself, adding even more authenticity to the Stevie Ray Visited live shows. Their first gig was held at the Palmdale Playhouse in 2019 to a sold-out audience, and they’ve been selling out shows ever since, including the Chrome Showroom in Las Vegas two years in a row.

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Thank you to all of our 2023-2023 season and show sponsors! Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org

Season Sponsors:
GEICO Local Office - Kevin & Janice Krieger
Hill Worldwide Moving Services
KCTS 9 PBS Seattle / Cascade Public Media
Kitsap Bank
West Hills Auto Plex

Exclusive Show Sponsors:
Robison Plumbing, Rich & Lisa Hecker

Skinny Blue - Album III Release Show
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 8 p.m.
Tickets start at $15 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $15
Balcony $15
Loge $15
Main Floor $25

This show is not included in 2022-2023 season tickets. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

Experience an evening of music with power trio Skinny Blue! Influenced by the sounds of the Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr and Neil Young, Skinny Blue brings their own voice to the spirit of rock n roll. The band will perform songs from their third album, and end with fan favorites from their other albums. The show will open with local acoustic rockers Porch Dog Prophet.

Learn more and listen to the music at www.skinnyblueband.com

Follow for more: https://www.facebook.com/skinnyblueband

This show is generously sponsored by West Sound Workforce

*SAVE 10% on tickets to all shows in March 2023 by entering the discount code GREEN at checkout. Click ‘Buy Tickets’ then enter the code in ‘Add Promo Code.’

Ray On My Mind - The Ray Charles Story Live
Friday, March 24, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $24 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $24
Balcony $39
Loge $49
Main Floor $64

This show is included in 2022-2023 full season tickets, half season package B, and our annual Spotlight Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

This concert/theater work brings the music and the story of the great Ray Charles to vivid life! Portraying Ray, master pianist/vocalist, Kenny Brawner leads his 11 piece orchestra and three sultry vocalists (a la the Raelettees), performing this American legend’s most popular hits: “What’d I Say?”, “I Got A Woman”, “Mess Around”, “Georgia On My Mind”, a blazing hot duet on “Baby It’s Cold Outside”, and many more! The music is interwoven with monologues depicting how gospel, blues, jazz, and country-influenced Ray’s style, while also reflecting on American social history, his epic battle with drugs, and his triumphant return home to Georgia.

Ray On My Mind assembles an orchestra of profoundly accomplished musicians whose performances are ingrained in American popular culture. Members of the orchestra have been heard prolifically on Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, and television. They have performed all over the world and recorded with a diverse range of influential musical giants, including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Darius Rucker, Jennifer Hudson, Sonny Rollins, Big Daddy Kane, Bo Diddley, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the Mighty Sparrow, Roy Ayers, Sam & Dave, Ashford and Simpson, Gregory Porter, Boy George, Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, David Murray, Eric Benet, Larry Coryell, John Popper, Lester Bowie, Shaggy, Ron Carter and Rihanna.

The Admiral Theatre 2022-2023 Spotlight Series is generously sponsored by Sheila & Charles Hart

This show is generously sponsored by:
Brown & Brown
Harvey's Butter Rum Batter & Specialty Popcorn
Robison Plumbing

Booker T. Jones
Note by Note
60 Years of "Green Onions" and STAX Hits
Friday, January 20, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $24 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $24
Balcony $34
Loge $49
Main Floor $69

This show is included in 2022-2023 full season tickets and half season package A. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

“Green Onions” is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.’s. Described as “one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever” and as one of “the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era”, the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. that he wrote when he was 17, although the actual recording was largely improvised in the studio.

The track was originally issued in May 1962 on the Volt label (a subsidiary of Stax Records) as the B-side of “Behave Yourself” on Volt 102; it was quickly reissued in August 1962 as the A-side of Stax 127, and it also appeared on the album Green Onions that same year. The organ sound of the song became a feature of the “Memphis soul” sound.

Booker T. Jones is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, four-time GRAMMY winner and arguably the most famous Hammond B3 player in history. As leader of the legendary Booker T. and the MGs, this pillar of soul music collaborated with Otis Redding, Albert King, and more during his tenure at Stax Records. Since then, Booker has lent his trademark keyboard chops to and produced classic albums such as Willie Nelson’s multi-platinum hit Stardust and Bill Withers’ Just As I Am featuring the hit song “Ain’t No Sunshine”.

With his Hammond B-3 organ, Booker T. Jones, along with the MG’s, would come to define The Memphis Sound. As leader of the famed Stax Records house band, and one of modern music’s most acclaimed figures, his first recording, “Green Onions,” was an international sensation, selling more than one million copies and claiming a place among Rolling Stone’s top five hundred songs of all time. As a multi-instrumental musical prodigy, his legacy is more than one song or music genre, and has grown with “Time Is Tight,” “Hip Hug-Her,” and the often sampled “Melting Pot” and collaborations with the likes of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Sam and Dave—and later Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Carlos Santana, Willie Nelson and Drive-By-Truckers.

“Booker T. Jones is one of the legends of soul music.” – The New Yorker

“Jones’ name is synonymous with the Hammond B3 organ. At 17, he recorded the instrument’s anthem, “Green Onions.” – NPR

This show is generously sponsored by:
HutchCon Construction Inc.
Jim Sund & Anne Mulligan
Blue Architecture
Jim & Gail Smalley

The Robert Cray Band
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $34 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $34
Balcony $49
Loge $69
Main Floor $84

This show is included in 2022-2023 full season tickets and half season package A. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

He’s funky, cool, and bad and is bringing it all to Bremerton! The Robert Cray Band will be performing their signature songs that draw from the best of American Roots, Blues, Soul and R&B. Let’s get the Admiral grooving as The Robert Cray Band rocks the house with their original music and honors their heroes.

Cray’s five Grammy wins, 20 acclaimed studio albums, and a bundle of live albums landed him in the Blues Hall of Fame. His most recent album, That’s What I Heard, is a rousing celebration of the music of Curtis Mayfield, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, and The Sensational Nightingales.

"I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.” - Robert Cray

This show is generously sponsored by Rick & Leslie Krueger, Annie Murphy & Brian Curtis, Dr John & Kathy Lubetich, and Drs Rose & Dale Holdren.

Covid-19 Update: Entrance to all events now requires proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test (click for details)

Stevie Ray Visited
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7 p.m.
Tickets start at $23 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $23
Balcony $23
Loge $39
Main Floor $44

This show is not included in season tickets. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

Stevie Ray Visited is a biographical blues/rock show that celebrates the life and music of the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Now his music lives on with the show “STEVIE RAY VISITED”, featuring Roby Duron, named “Best Blues Guitar Player” by LA Rock City News. Roby was raised on Texas Blues. And with his charismatic stage presence, and killer guitar shredding, STEVIE RAY VISITED delivers all the hits like Pride and Joy, Crossfire, House is a Rockin’, Texas Flood, and more!

Sponsored by Debra KB | LoveKitsap, and Hutch-Con Construction, Inc.
Additional sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3056 or nita@admiraltheatre.org