Admiral Theatre Recommendation: If you like Postmodern Jukebox, you’ll love Some Enchanted Evening featuring Benny Benack III, Stella Katherine Cole, and Jabu Graybeal.

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Some Enchanted Evening
Featuring Benny Benack III, Stella Cole, and Jabu Graybeal
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $19 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $19
Balcony $34
Loge $49
Main Floor $64

This show is included in 2024-2025 full season tickets, half season package B, and the Spotlight Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+.

Led by Emmy-nominated crooner Benny Benack III and singer and social media sensation Stella Katherine Cole, Some Enchanted Evening leads audiences on a jazz-inspired journey through Broadway’s greatest hits from the Golden Age of yesterday to the freshest hits of today. From Hammerstein to “Hamilton” and everything in between, this multi-disciplinary musical mashup also showcases Jabu Graybeal, a one-of-a-kind talent and tap-dancing star.

For detailed artist bios, please visit the show page at admiraltheatre.org/events/someenchantedevening

Thank you to all of our 2024-2025 season, series 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
Cascade PBS
Kitsap Bank
West Hills Autoplex

Spotlight Series Sponsors: available

Show Sponsors: Mike & Paula Bessler, Wayne & Melissa Lassiter (two sponsor spots available)

DATE CHANGE: Due to travel difficulties, this show has been moved to this Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 8 PM. Refunds or theatre credit are being offered for those ticket holders unable to attend Sunday. Please email boxoffice@admiraltheatre.org or call 360.373.6743 to connect with our staff. If the line is busy, please leave a voicemail and we will return your call at our earliest convenience.

As We Speak: Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer featuring Rakesh Chaurasia
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Doors 7 p.m. | Show 8 p.m.
Tickets start at $34 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $34
Balcony $49
Loge $69
Main Floor $84

This show is not included in season ticket packages. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+.

Bremerton's Admiral Theatre is proud to present As We Speak: Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer featuring Rakesh Chaurasia - all masters of their craft with an astonishing 30 GRAMMY Awards between them.

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Edgar Meyer are virtuoso musicians and collaborators from three entirely different musical realms — bluegrass for Fleck, Indian classical music for Hussain, and Western classical music for Meyer. Sharing a gift for improvisation, they reach across musical genres as casually as neighbors might chat over a backyard fence.

Their latest collaboration, As We Speak showcases the group’s breathtaking versatility as instrumentalists — gliding easily between the cerebral complexity of Indian rhythm, the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, and the rigors of raga. Rakesh Chaurasia, a young master of the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute, joins the group, adding to the magic.

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The first-time banjo legend Béla Fleck, tabla master Zakir Hussain, and double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer got together to make an album, it was to write, not to play.

When Fleck and Meyer were looking for a third partner for a triple concerto, they had been commissioned to write to mark the opening of Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, they thought of Hussain, who was quite interested in orchestral writing. “We thought we could learn a whole lot from this guy!” says Béla. The result was The Melody of Rhythm (2009), recorded with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin.

It wasn’t until the three began touring to promote the album that the trio’s true potential became apparent. Although each had a base in a different musical realm — bluegrass for Fleck, Indian classical music for Hussain, and Western classical music for Meyer — they shared a gift for improvisation as well as an ability to reach across musical genres as casually as neighbors might chat over a backyard fence.” When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation,” says Hussain. “So, the music emerges as we speak.”

Hence As We Speak, an album that not only showcases the group’s breathtaking abilities as instrumentalists but underscores the wide range of musical influences at their command. Across a dozen tracks, the group glides easily between the cerebral complexity of Indian rhythm and the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, sounding equally at home with the rigors of raga.

Adding to that magic is Rakesh Chaurasia, who plays bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute. When the trio was touring India, Hussain — who knew Rakesh through his uncle, Indian flute legend Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia — invited the younger flautist to sit in, and the chemistry was immediately apparent. “I think we wanted to see if we could do something a little more organic with just a small group,” says Meyer. “And to have somebody who plays as beautifully as Rakesh join us really opened it up to a more lyrical and melodic situation.”

“What I think is good about this quartet is that everybody has to stretch in the direction of the other people,” adds Fleck. “To me, a collaboration where nobody changes is not a collaboration. It’s a mashup. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But I like a collaboration where I have to learn a bunch of new things from the other people. And in this case, I’m learning like crazy.”

Béla Fleck
Few musicians in any category seem as uncategorizable as Béla Fleck. After initially making his mark with the progressive bluegrass group New Grass Revival, Fleck proceeded to take his instrument, as New York Times critic Jon Pareles noted, “to some very unlikely places.” He formed the Flecktones, a groundbreaking group whose repertoire ranged from fusion to Bach; the group celebrates its 46th anniversary this year. In addition, he has played jazz with Chick Corea, American roots with his partner, banjoist Abigail Washburn, written concertos for banjo and orchestra, and created a documentary film and album, Throw Down Your Heart, that examined the banjo’s African roots. Along the way, he has won 16 Grammys across 10 categories.

Zakir Hussain
The pre-eminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain is appreciated as one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, one whose mastery of his percussion instrument has taken it to a new level, transcending cultures and national borders. A child prodigy, accompanying India’s greatest musicians and dancers from his early years, and touring internationally while still in his teens, Zakir has been at the helm of many genre-defying collaborations including Shakti, Remember Shakti, Masters of Percussion, Diga, Tabla Beat Science, CrossCurrents, Sangam and Grammy-award winners Planet Drum and Global Drum Project. A revered composer and educator, Zakir is the recipient of countless honors, most recently the 2022 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, the 2022 Aga Khan Music Award for Lifetime Achievement, and in January 2023, the title of Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award.

Edgar Meyer
Aptly described by The New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument,” double bassist and composer Edgar Meyer is at home in a broad spectrum of musical styles. A MacArthur Fellow and Avery Fisher Prize winner, he is eminently at home within classical music, both performing traditional works and also his significant catalog of original solo, chamber, and orchestral pieces. His 30-year relationship with Yo-Yo Ma has yielded seven recordings together, and his upcoming projects include a duo recording with jazz bassist Christian McBride and a recording of all four of his concertos with the Knights and the Scottish Ensemble, produced by Chis Thile.

Rakesh Chaurasia
Like Zakir Hussain, Rakesh Chaurasia comes from Indian classical music royalty. His uncle, Pandit Hariprasad Chaursia, is widely considered the greatest bansuri player in India, and Rakesh — who started playing at age five — is deemed his most brilliant student. Not only has he mastered the techniques of Indian classical music, he has developed additional techniques allowing him to venture into other styles of playing, particularly with his crossover band Rakesh and Friends. A composer as well as flautist, he has written and performed on numerous Indian movie soundtracks, and in 2007 was awarded the Indian Music Academy Award.

This show is generously sponsored by Annie Murphy & Brian Curtis, and Patricia McKenzie & Leonard Costello!

Gunhild Carling
Sweden's Queen of Swing
Friday, April 28, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $24 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $24
Balcony $24
Loge $39
Main Floor $54

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

Singer | Musician | Dancer | Entertainer

Swedish musical sensation Gunhild Carling is an internationally-acclaimed superstar whose show is a can’t-miss event! Whether she’s singing favorite swinging jazz standards, playing one of many instruments (trumpet, trombone, harmonica, oboe, harp, flute, recorder, or jazz bagpipe!) or juggling and tap dancing, Gunhild’s sublime showmanship shines. And just wait for the finale – spoiler alert – she plays three trumpets at once!



Carling competed as a celebrity dancer in Let’s Dance 2014 on TV4 placing third. She was also on Sweden’s Dancing with The Stars. Gunhild performed for Sweden’s Got Talent in 2017 and appeared on America’s Got Talent season 2019.



She recently performed with her 'Carling Big Band' at the Royal Palace in Stockholm in the celebration for King Carl XVI Gustaf's Ruby Jubilee. Performing such great memorable vintage songs such as "Minnie the Moocher," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "All of Me," "It Had to Be You," and an endless repertoire of songs, Gunhild masterfully takes you back to another era like a time machine.



Between Touring with her own band, she performs in several configurations from solo to orchestra to symphony and  as a featured singer and multi-instrumentalist in several of Postmodern Jukebox's songs, including a 1920s jazz swing version of "Material Girl", and a 1920s hot jazz cover of ABBA's "Dancing Queen”. Gunhild Carling keeps serenading audiences in the US and all around the world today.

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

This show is generously sponsored by:
Denise Farkas & Jennifer Christine
Patrick & Peggy Rammel

Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org

Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: Songs We Love
Saturday, January 21, 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 $59

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

For over three decades, Jazz at Lincoln Center has been a leading advocate for jazz, culture, and arts education globally. Under the direction of Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center has brought the art form of jazz from the heart of New York City to over 446 cities in more than 40 countries.

The JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER PRESENTS touring initiative provides an affordable opportunity to present great jazz programming, featuring up-and-coming musicians who have been identified as rising stars by JALC. The initiative also allows for expansion of the mission of JALC “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy.”

Songs We Love was first presented as the 2016 Season Opener at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Songs We Love is a journey through the first 50 years of jazz song. Under the musical direction of Riley Mulherkar, 3 guest vocalists will join an all-star band made up of New York’s rising stars. Combining their distinct talents, the group will sing their way through four decades of music, beginning with the early blues and jazz of the 1920s and ending in the early 1950s. Iconic singers to be explored include Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland.

The Admiral Theatre’s 2022-2023 Music Series is generously sponsored by Sheila & Charles Hart

This show is generously sponsored by:
Donna Gay & Patrick Boyle
Ron & PJ Lund
Deborah Taylor, Windermere
Patty Lent

Pink Martini featuring China Forbes
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $44 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $44
Balcony $54
Loge $84
Main Floor $109

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

“Pink Martini is a rollicking around-the-world musical adventure… if the United Nations had a house band in 1962, hopefully we’d be that band.” — Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader/pianist

Pink Martini’s “little orchestra” draws inspiration from the romantic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and ’50s and crosses genres to make an eclectic, modern sound. Their arrangements of Latin music, jazz, cabaret and cinema scores come together in a sound that defies categorization, but is guaranteed to get the audience up out of their seats and dancing in the aisles. This concert will include popular favorites from the band’s 25 year career as well as songs from their latest release, Je dis oui!, taking the audience on a musical trip around the world from France to Iran, Armenia to South Africa and more.

Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3056 or nita@admiraltheatre.org