Music

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues with KEN PEPLOWSKI. Clarinetist extraordinaire Ken Peplowski brings a sparkling tribute to the original Benny Goodman Trio. Rossano Sportiello (piano) and Kevin Dorn (drums) join for a memorable evening! “Brilliantly entertaining!” – DownBeat

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues LELAND KO. Leland Ko took home joint, first prize at the prestigious 2024 Naumburg International Cello Competition! With pianist Adria Ye, and a program of Schumann, Mendelssohn, and others, a must-hear concert awaits! “Beauty of sound and subtlety that we don’t often encounter in a cellist of his age!” – Itzhak Perlman

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues with ANTHONY HERVEY. A Grammy® "Emerging Artist to Know,“ trumpeter Anthony Hervey brings a rich, New-York-style evening of jazz with musical cohorts! “A beautiful trumpet player of the first magnitude!” – Wynton Marsalis

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues with BRIDGET KIBBEY. Bridget’s great musical instincts transcend the harp. Whether in duo with Kathleen Battle or Dawn Upshaw, or in solo recital, Bridget’s virtuosic and soulful power has audiences cheering! “Remarkable gossamer colorings and improvisatory fervor!” – The New York Times

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series opens 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12 with HOT FIDDLE! Virtuoso violinist Ashley Liberty and brilliant pianist Daniel Strange bring an epic genre-busting ride – from classical and jazz, to fiddle and rock!

If you're going to be a poet, you better be a warrior. Legendary runner Robert 'Raven' Kraft has seen every single Miami Beach sunset, going back five decades. All those sunsets, running 8 (now 5) miles along the beach, never missing a single day. Not during Covid shutdowns, not during hurricanes. And now you know he is also a musician, reveling in goth-country-inflected rock. He credits Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings as his major influences. In 2023, he began working with extraordinary group of musicians (The Dark Shadows) to release new music and play area venues. The evening starts with a set by another Miami Beach native, young singer-songwriter Julia Bhatt. North Beach Social, the FREE monthly night of Third Thursdays music at the Bandshell.

This Land is Your Land, Simple Gifts, Farther Along, My Darlin’ Clementine, and more! Bring the whole family to this American folk song celebration. The pure-toned voices of Seraphic Fire take you on a 75-minute journey through America’s folk music roots. We’ll also sing Ingram Marshall’s Hymnodic Delays, perhaps Seraphic Fire’s most requested piece, based on 18th century American folk hymns.

This Land is Your Land, Simple Gifts, Farther Along, My Darlin’ Clementine, and more! Bring the whole family to this American folk song celebration. The pure-toned voices of Seraphic Fire take you on a 75-minute journey through America’s folk music roots. We’ll also sing Ingram Marshall’s Hymnodic Delays, perhaps Seraphic Fire’s most requested piece, based on 18th century American folk hymns.

“Precious Lord, take my hand; lead me on, help me stand.” Thomas Dorsey, the father of American Gospel, revolutionized music by setting these remarkable words to a haunting tune you know today. From Amazing Grace to up-tempo classics, the internationally celebrated conductor Jason Max Ferdinand leads the singers of Seraphic Fire in this joyous and electrifying program.

Bach is our favorite composer, and we have a special place in our hearts for his motets. Hear Seraphic Fire’s singers and the first-rate instrumentalists of the Seraphic Fire Period Orchestra bring six of Bach’s most virtuosic and celebrated works to life.