{"id":40802218741,"date":"2018-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/on-the-road-again\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:35:51","slug":"on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On the \u2018Road\u2019 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University has announced that tickets are now on sale for \u201cRockin\u2019 Road to Dublin<\/a>,\u201d scheduled for the evening of March 24, 2018 as part of the Winter\/Spring Performing Arts Series of events.<\/p>\n

Presented inside the Pollak Theatre, the 8 p.m. event marks the \u201cback by popular demand\u201d return to campus of the spectacular touring sensation that combines the traditions of Irish music, the electricity of classic rock, the breathtaking majesty of Irish Dance, and a state-of-the-art light show into an experience that\u2019s captivated audiences from coast to coast.<\/p>\n

Just a little more than a year after being founded as a collaboration between musician and tech specialist Chris Smith and Irish Dance World Champion Scott Doherty, \u201cRockin\u2019 Road to Dublin\u201d made its very first appearance in the New York\/New Jersey area on the stage of the Pollak \u2014 then newly renovated to accommodate the scale and spectacle of a dynamic stage entertainment that\u2019s helped to introduce a new generation to the Irish Dance experience.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the show works happily within an unofficial annual tradition on the Monmouth campus: a springtime celebration of Celtic culture and sounds that\u2019s brought the likes of Sean Tyrrell, Cherish the Ladies, and Caladh Nua to campus in recent seasons, and that boasts a March 1st appearance by acoustic masters Dan\u00fa. The emerald month of March climaxes in grand and dramatic style with \u201cRockin\u2019 Road,\u201d and its supercharged union of traditional Irish folk forms with all-American rock and roll theatrics.<\/p>\n

When not touring with such acts as Celtic rockers The American Rogues, percussionist-producer Smith developed a parallel career as an in-demand lighting designer for acts ranging from My Chemical Romance to Yanni \u2014 a set of skills that have lent an extra layer of visual excitement to the choreography of Doherty, a young veteran who\u2019s performed with Cherish the Ladies, The Irish Tenors, and the North American tour of Michael Flatley\u2019s \u201cLord of the Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

As lead dancer of \u201cRockin\u2019 Road,\u201d he spearheads a leaping, whirling, 13-member company that includes lead female performer Ashley Smith, a finalist on TV\u2019s \u201cSo You Think You Can Dance\u201d and one of the youngest American women to earn the title of World Irish Step Dancing Champion. The co-creators are joined by a seven-piece band under the direction of keyboardist Joe Schermann; fronted by lead vocalists Megan Lynn Browning and Brett Benowitz as a fuel-injected vehicle that tells a love story through passionate singing, and the electrifying interplay of lightning-fast fiddlers with driving, pounding rock pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the March 24, 2018 presentation of \u201cRockin\u2019 Road to Dublin\u201d are priced at $45 and $55 and can be reserved through the Monmouth University Box Office at 732-263-6889, or online at www.monmouth.edu\/mca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presented inside the Pollak Theatre, the 8 p.m. event marks the \u201cback by popular demand\u201d return to campus of the spectacular touring sensation that combines the traditions of Irish music, the electricity of classic rock, the breathtaking majesty of Irish Dance, and a state-of-the-art light show into an experience that\u2019s captivated audiences from coast to coast.<\/p>\n

Just a little more than a year after being founded as a collaboration between musician and tech specialist Chris Smith and Irish Dance World Champion Scott Doherty, \u201cRockin\u2019 Road to Dublin\u201d made its very first appearance in the New York\/New Jersey area on the stage of the Pollak \u2014 then newly renovated to accommodate the scale and spectacle of a dynamic stage entertainment that\u2019s helped to introduce a new generation to the Irish Dance experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40802224318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40802218741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-center-for-the-arts","category-uncategorized"],"subheadline":"Celtic-flavored stage extravaganza brings power chords, spectacular dance and dynamic light show back to Monmouth U","youtube":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/03\/newsthumnrr2d-2.jpg","gallery":[{"_youtube":"eZSSeydFHL0"}],"featured_img":"\"\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802218741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802218741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802218741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802226642,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802218741\/revisions\/40802226642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802224318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802218741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802218741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802218741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}