October 20 kicks off the Thursdays at the Rialto 2016/17 season. Penny Eckman, known for her renditions of Patsy Cline, returns to the Rialto stage on Oct. 20 at 7 pm with Pat Davis, to perform as “Leading Ladies.”
Leading Ladies is a collection of familiar pop, country, blues, jazz and Broadway tunes made famous by ladies, such as Billie Holiday, Sophie Tucker, Patsy Cline, Aretha Franklin, and Barbra Streisand, since the 1920s.
Eckman has been singing since she was young, and is a professional singer with over 30 years of experience. She is most notably known in the area for her one-woman show “Penny Sings Patsy” which she brought to the BCRAC a few years ago. She has continued to perform Cline’s music at over 200 concert venues across the east coast and Midwest.
Davis accompanies Eckman, performing together and as a soloist on piano, playing ragtime and blues inspired selections. Raised in Wellsboro, Davis’s love for music was fostered by her father, who played in a dance band and purchased her first piano at age 10. She performed professionally at age 13, accompanying her dad’s band at the Charleston High School.
Don’t miss these ladies as they fill the theater with nostalgia and familiar tunes of the past!
Tickets are available online at www.bcrac.org or by calling 570-268-2787. Brochures are available at the Rialto Theatre and the Canton Independent Sentinel as well as the Keystone and Sayre theaters. Don’t miss out on this Concert and others in this season’s series.
The Rialto Theatre is part of the BCRAC Team of Theatres. Built as the Crawford Theatre in 1912 and renamed the Rialto in the early 1930’s, Canton’s Rialto Theatre underwent a wonderful rebirth in 1994-1995. The BCRAC reopened the Rialto in December of 1994.
About the Bradford County Regional Arts Council: Established in 1976, the BCRAC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and supporting a thriving regional arts community by advocating for the Arts, cultivating quality arts programming and preserving Bradford County’s historic theatres as venues for performances, community events and movies. For more information, visit BCRAC online at www.bcrac.org orwww.facebook.com/BCRAC.