LIVERMORE — Livermore Valley Arts performances for the Bankhead Theater will provide a variety of distinctive reveals in its lineup for the winter months.

Featuring entertainers of worldwide music, comedy, and dance, these star-filled additions will you’ll want to delight.

* Irish Christmas in America: Sunday, Dec. 3, at 3 p.m.; Tickets: $25 to $60 ($25 scholar/navy personnel)

* Pink Martini: Monday, Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m.; Tickets: $25 to $110 ($25 scholar/navy personnel)

* Kevin Nealon: Friday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m.; Tickets: $25 to $65 ($25 scholar/navy personnel)

* Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Monday, Jan. 29at 7:30 p.m.; Tickets: $25 to $120 ($25 scholar/navy personnel)

Dates, occasions, and ticket costs for different occasions can be found at www.LivermoreArts.org.

All of the performances will happen on the Bankhead Theater, 2400 First St., Downtown Livermore.

Back for an 18th season, Irish Christmas in America options particular visitor musicians, singers, and dancers from Ireland performing a fascinating program that includes prime Irish expertise.

The massively standard vacation present brings a captivating efficiency of music, music, dance, and tales of seasonal Irish traditions, the right deal with for all ages. Produced by Sligo fiddler Oisín Mac Diarmada, this long-running present is an interesting efficiency wealthy in humor and boundless power.

The 2023 tour options particular visitor singer Caitríona Sherlock, a vocalist from Monaghan who is without doubt one of the best new voices from Ireland.

The family-friendly efficiency additionally options vigorous instrumental tunes on fiddle by Mac Diarmada, flute and uilleann pipes by Sean Gavin, and harp by Gráinne Hambly, all performing together with thrilling old-style Irish dancing from Samantha Harvey.

Additionally, evocative photographic photographs present a backdrop to among the wealthy historic traditions of Ireland, offering a memorable glimpse into the enchanting spirit of Christmas, because the best conventional artists from Ireland convey audiences on a fun-filled begin to the 2023 vacation season.

The vacation present was first conceived in 2005 as a approach to convey conventional and sometimes unknown Irish customs to the States.

“One of the most heartfelt themes of Irish Christmas is emigration,” says Mac Diarmada.

In the center of December, Portland’s sensational “little orchestra” Pink Martini that includes China Forbes, will delight audiences with their participating tackle multilingual pop, jazz, and classical tunes since 1994.

Called “utterly cosmopolitan yet utterly unpretentious” by The Washington Post, Pink Martini has staked out a novel place within the hearts of music followers with their interesting mix of old-school magnificence and modern-day humor.

After greater than 25 years, a number of EP releases, quite a few songs, and numerous reveals, Pink Martini continues to be a sensation. A genuinely American band, they’ve the chance, as band chief Thomas Lauderdale says, “to represent a broader, more inclusive America … comprised of people of every country, every language, every religion” by means of their music.

Featuring a dozen musicians with songs in 25 languages, Pink Martini has carried out on live performance levels and with symphony orchestras world wide. They have toured and recorded with such friends because the 4 Von Trapp siblings, great-grandchildren of The Sound of Music household, Rufus Wainwright, and Portland-native NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro.

Pink Martini has launched 11 studio albums by itself unbiased label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s canine), promoting over 3 million albums worldwide. With their scorching vocals, clean instrumentals, and infectious rhythms, a Pink Martini live performance is to be sipped, savored, and remembered.

Kevin Nealon is an Emmy and SAG-nominated actor and comic who units himself aside from different comedic performers along with his distinctive humorousness, dry wit, and likable demeanor, greatest recognized for his nine-year stint as a solid member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live and for taking part in Doug Wilson on the hit Showtime sequence Weeds.

Nealon’s intensive tv credit additionally embody the CBS sitcom, Man With a Plan (wherein he starred alongside Matt LeBlanc), two critically acclaimed stand-up specials for Showtime, and a variety of appearances on Hot In Cleveland, Franklin & Bash, Monk, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Still Standing.

Nealon has discovered nice comedic success in his intensive movie profession: in Anger Management, he performed reverse Jack Nicholson and fellow SNL comic, Adam Sandler, with whom he additionally teamed up in Eight Crazy Nights, The Wedding Singer, Happy Gilmore, Just Go With It, Blended, and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.

In Joe Dirt, Nealon joined one other SNL alumnus David Spade, and he additionally appeared in Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy, Good Boy with Molly Shannon, Bucky Larsen: Born to be a Star with Nick Swardson, Roxanne with Steve Martin, and the cult hit Grandma’s Boy, additionally with Nick Swardson and Jonah Hill. As one of many longest operating solid members on SNL (1986-1995), Nealon created among the present’s most memorable characters, together with ‘The Subliminal Man’ and ‘Hans and Franz.’

Nealon’s recurring function as self-produced, edited, and hosted digital sequence Hiking with Kevin is a smash hit, the place he interviews his A-list pals like Michael Keaton, Jimmy Kimmel, Lin Manuel-Miranda, Al Franken, Hilary Swank, Kumail Nanjiani, Conan O’Brien, and extra on hikes all through the nation.

A number of days later, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the world’s foremost all-male comedian ballet firm, might be returning with its internationally beloved troupe of dancers to Downtown Livermore as a part of its landmark fiftieth anniversary season, that includes gems from throughout the corporate’s groundbreaking repertoire.

Founded in New York City in 1974, the corporate, affectionately generally known as the Trocks, has grown from its roots in late-late reveals in off-off Broadway lofts to a world touring sensation, acting from Tokyo to Toronto and in all places in between.

The firm dances en travesti with razor-sharp wit and breathtaking pointe work, performing polished parodies of works that span the classical ballet canon. Revered by ballet aficionados in addition to by those that don’t know a plié from a jeté.

The Bankhead Theater retains COVID security protocols in place with enhanced air circulation and no contact ticketing. Proof of vaccination is just not required for entry at ticketed performances until famous as a part of a contractual obligation with the artist.

Tickets for all reveals within the 2023-2024 Bankhead Presents season can be found on-line, by calling 925-373-6800, or on the field workplace home windows. For a whole listing of occasions, go to livermorearts.org.