Thu, Jul 10
Max's 34th birthday! --- Every Thursday night, Noce hosts an all night happy hour. Doors at 6, music 7-10pm, no cover all night! $5 green tea shots, $6 well drinks, $7 house wine, $8 specialty cocktails. Some of the top jazz musicians in the region are featured each week.
Fri, Jul 11
Noce is proud to present “Voix de Ville,” an original ever-evolving cabaret produced by Max Wellman featuring arrangements spanning from the 1920s to the 2020s. A modernized creation inspired by the vaudeville shows that ushered in the Jazz Age, Voix de Ville includes an elite jazz orchestra under the direction of Jason Danielson alongside drag & ballet professionals. The show opened in September of 2024 & will have an ongoing rotating cast of performers for a different show each week. Past shows have featured drag queens Tyona Diamond & Domita Sanchez, ballet professionals Amelia & Logan Hillman, Napoleon Douglas, & more.
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Sat, Jul 12
Andrew is thrilled to present an encore performance of his new show celebrating Tony Bennett! Here, he will lead his ten-piece orchestra through all-new custom-commissioned arrangements of Bennett’s biggest hits. Then, Walesch will take the audience on a journey through the career of one of the greatest artists of our time. Andrew has loved Tony Bennett since he was a kid. He spent countless hours studying Tony’s phrasing, discography, and overall musical approach. When he was sixteen, he started traveling far and wide to see Tony as many times as possible. (He saw Bennett in concert sixteen times.) All this would culminate one fateful afternoon in 2017, when Walesch encountered Bennett while walking on 57th Street in Manhattan. This chance meeting turned into a forty-five-minute-long conversation over dinner. Here, Bennett took Andrew on a chronological journey through his career, in his own words. Ever since then, this concept has been in the works. “Although they are my idols, I don’t attempt to imitate the great pop and jazz artists of the 50s and ’60s,” says Andrew, “but I go for broke when we do our shows – vocally and musically – which is what they all did best and why they were in a class of their own.” Andrew possesses admirable vocal and piano chops and a keen sensibility to find and interpret a great lyric. Also, these skills have led to some great opportunities. To that end, he has appeared on the nationally syndicated NPR broadcast Mountain Stage. Recently, Walesch performed at the 33rd Annual Cabaret Convention at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Walesch now resides in Phoenix, where he is the Artistic Director of the Music Theater at the Musical Instrument Museum.
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Fri, Jul 18
Noce is proud to present Gina Gedler with special featured artist Abbie Sawyer in a new special country music experience. Along with a pyanna, bass, drums, fiddle, and geetar, this show features some of the greatest country tunes of all time! It’s a toe tapping and heartfelt night of song……. filled with some surprises too! This show celebrates legendary country music artists like, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, The Judds, Johnny Cash, and many more!
Sat, Jul 19
Marisa Cravero is an up-and-coming vocalist and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in West Des Moines, IA. Currently, Cravero is studying with world-renowned vocal jazz faculty Rosana Eckert and Jennifer Barnes at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. During her first year at UNT, Marisa performed with the Seven O’Clock Lab Band on vocals, Vocal Jazz Ensemble Avenue C, played saxophone in the Commercial Music Ensemble, and helped found Peel’d, a contemporary band that she continues to sing and arrange with. Back in Des Moines, IA, the vocalist has had the opportunity to work with outstanding jazz musicians such as Alyssa Allgood, Gabriel Espinosa, Alison Wedding, Darmon Meader, säje, and Kim Nazarian. Marisa was repeatedly selected for Iowa All State Jazz Choir, and lead alto in the Iowa All State Jazz Band in 2023, as well as a two-time recipient of the Iowa Vocal Jazz Champs Outstanding Soloist Award. Equally at ease in the Broadway genre, Marisa was a consecutive IHSMTA triple threat nominee appearing on Iowa PBS. She has had the opportunity to learn from acclaimed Broadway professionals, including Jessica Lee Goldyn, Parker Esse, and Peisha McPhee. Marisa’s diverse musical past shines through in her performing, composing, and arranging.
Fri, Jul 25
Steve Berry is back with his annual music retrospective -- this time the biggest songs of 1974. Featuring such diverse artists as Billy Preston, Chicago, The Hollies, Elton John, ABBA and The Righteous Brothers. If you lived it, you loved it. Steve, with some of the best musicians and singers in the midwest, will have you singing along and reliving the songs that helped define a generation.
Sat, Jul 26
Born and raised in Kansas City, MO, Lonnie McFadden is a unique multi-talented performer who sings, tap dances, and plays trumpet. Lonnie has traveled the globe performing and representing Kansas City jazz at major jazz festivals and shows around the world. His performances have been seen internationally and include such events as the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and the Nice Jazz Festival in Nice, France. Lonnie and his brother Ronald McFadden (The McFadden Brothers) have shared the stage with some of the biggest names in show business. Wayne Newton, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Orlando, Lee Greenwood, Gladys Knight, and the Count Basie Orchestra are just some of the great entertainers they have had the pleasure of working with. The McFadden Brothers have also performed for all types of audiences, including a very special 2004 USO tour to Kuwait and Iraq for our troops. Lonnie has performed in casino showrooms, arenas, and coliseums that include the MGM Grand and Hilton Casinos in Las Vegas, Trump Taj Mahal Atlantic City, Nîmes Coliseum in Nîmes, France, Rosemont Theater Chicago, Lincoln Center New York, Sprint Center Kansas City, and Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Cerritos, CA. Most recently, the McFadden Brothers received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Jazz Museum in May 2016, and Living Legends Awards from Tapology in October 2017. In 2017, Lonnie received the Best Entertainer Award from Ingram’s Magazine.
Sat, Jul 26
Come celebrate the release of the Brian Martin Big Band's debut album, "Old Home/New Home." Dedicated to the idea of having roots in one place and forming new connections in another, "Old Home/New Home" brings together musicians from Iowa and New England for the common purpose of sharing in music-making. The album will be available for sale for the first time in Iowa this night! --- Award-winning trombonist, composer, and educator Brian Martin is based both in the music scene of his home state of Iowa as well as the Greater Boston area where he currently resides. As a performer, Martin has performed alongside international and national touring artists in addition to leading his own groups. His most ambitious project is his Brian Martin Big Band, an 18-person ensemble dedicated to performing his original music, which is composed of musicians from New England and the Midwest. As a writer, his compositions and arrangements have received accolades from the Jazz Educators Network and DownBeat Magazine. He has been commissioned to write new music for groups ranging in experience and ensemble from elementary concert bands, to collegiate jazz ensembles, to high school show choirs. As an educator, Martin has worked with students ranging from elementary to the university level. His students have received various awards and honors, ranging from acceptance into auditioned ensembles at the All-State and District levels to receiving DownBeat Magazine awards of their own.
Thu, Jul 31
Every Thursday night, Noce hosts an all night happy hour. Doors at 6, music 7-10pm, no cover all night! $5 green tea shots, $6 well drinks, $7 house wine, $8 specialty cocktails. Some of the top jazz musicians in the region are featured each week.
Fri, Aug 01
In only a few short years The NOLA Jazz Bands “gutsy and heartfelt” blues and jazz stylings has earned them a nationwide fan base. This 5 generation, 8 member group led by clarinetist Jeff Kane has played with some of the biggest movers and shakers in the New Orleans, Hot Jazz, and NYC Traditional Jazz scenes including: Bria Skonberg, Marla Dixon and Shotgun Jazz Band, Paul Mehling and Hot Club of San Francisco, Davina & the Vagabonds, and many others. Band members have also played in Europe and at well-known clubs in New Orleans and New York including the Spotted Cat, Bamboula’s, Iridium, and Smalls Jazz Club.
Sat, Aug 02
Noce is proud to present a new show starring Domita Sanchez, with music arranged & directed by Paul Lichty. Domita has performed across the country & with great artists everywhere, from the Saddle Gurls to Chappel Roan & more. The Domita Sanchez Show will feature some drag, yes, but also live, dynamic vocals alongside a 10 piece big band. Expect everything from Louis Jordan to Beyonce & beyond. This is a cabaret unlike any other.