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The Berklee Performance Center box office summer hours of operation are Monday - Saturday, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., through September 1, 2013.  Tickets to all performances are always available for purchase online.

The Berklee Performance Center is located at 136 Massachusetts Avenue, in Boston's historic Back Bay. The BPC, which is both the college's flagship performance space and one of Boston's most prestigious concert halls, is easily accessible by public transportation, with parking available in neighboring garages.

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BMP presents

The Aristocrats

Berklee Performance Center, 7:30 p.m.$20, general admission

The Aristocrats—British guitarist Guthrie Govan (Steven Wilson, Asia); American bassist Bryan Beller (Steve Vai, Dethklok); and German drummer Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, Adrian Belew, Necrophagist)—perform adventurous instrument rock/fusion.

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Eric Normand: The Nashville Musician's Survival Guide

Berklee Performance Center, 1:00 p.m.Free

Eric Normand, author of The Nashville Musician's Survival Guide, presents a clinic that offers an informative peek behind the curtain of Music City.

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Five-Week Performing Songwriter Showcase

Berklee Performance Center, 8:15 p.m.Free

Five-week students who have made it through a couple of rounds of auditions will play their original songs backed by an all-star Berklee house band. From pop to punk to jazz and folk, it will be a great night of original music!

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Amjad Ali Khan

Berklee Performance Center, 7:30 p.m.$48, $42, $37, $28 reserved seating

“Amjad Ali Khan—improvising furiously around the melody line with repeated, rapid-fire playing and then letting his equally frantic tabla player take over—it was easy to see why great Indian music can be as exciting as classic blues and rock.”—The Guardian

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Rockapella: Motown and More

Berklee Performance Center, 8:00 p.m.$31, $26, $21, reserved seating

 

New for 2013, Rockapella's latest show combines the exciting signature sound and staging of Rockapella with the distinctive rhythm and groove of Motown. Featuring hits from the Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, and the Temptations, plus Rockapella favorites, this concert is not to be missed.

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Jorge Drexler

Berklee Performance Center, 7:30 p.m.$37, $32, $28 reserved seating

Jorge Drexler, composer of the Oscar award-winning song "Al Otro Lado del Río" from the film The Motorcycle Diaries, comes to the Berklee Performance Center to perform a combination of Uruguayan traditional music, bossa nova, pop, and jazz that results in very personal compositions with original arrangements reflecting on love, identity, race, and religion. 

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Antonio Sanchez Master Class

Berklee Performance Center, 1:00 p.m.Free

The third in a series of master classes with Antonio Sanchez for the annual Berklee Armand Zildjian Artist-in-Residence Program.

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Antonio Sanchez

Berklee Performance Center, 8:15 p.m.TBA

The third and final event of the annual Berklee Armand Zildjian Artist-in-Residence Program, featuring this year's guest artist and Pat Metheny drummer Antonio Sanchez.

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Berklee International Network 20th Anniversary Concert

Berklee Performance Center, 8:15 p.m.$8 in advance (discount applied at checkout), $12 day of show, general admission

Berklee College of Music is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Berklee International Network (BIN) with a showcase event featuring students, faculty, and special guests from around the world.

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Great Northeast Productions Inc.

ThePianoGuys

Berklee Performance Center, 7:30 p.m.$41, reserved seating

Hailing from Utah, ThePianoGuys became an internet sensation by way of their immensely successful series of strikingly original self-made music videos. They have more than 55 million views and 350,000 subscribers to their YouTube channel. But just who are ThePianoGuys? Actually, there’s only one piano player, Jon Schmidt, and one other instrumentalist, Steven Sharp Nelson, on cello. These classically trained musicians create sophisticated new arrangements of everything from Beethoven’s 5th Symphony to Coldplay’s “Paradise,” often weaving seemingly disparate pieces together to create something totally new.

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Joshua Redman Quartet

Berklee Performance Center, 8:00 p.m.$48, $42, $37, $30 reserved seating

Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists today.

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The Magic of Christmas with Jim Brickman

Berklee Performance Center, 8:00 p.m.$74 with pre-show meet & greet, $64, $49, $39 reserved seating
Jim Brickman brings the spirit of the season to life once again with The Magic of Christmas—and you’re invited! Brickman, along with special guests, delivers the perfect blend of music and entertainment in a show that combines intimacy, warmth, and humor. He will perform holiday favorites along with the hits that have made him the best-selling solo pianist of our time. A 17-year tradition, The Magic of Christmas is the must-see concert of the holiday season.
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A John Waters Christmas

Berklee Performance Center, 8:00 p.m.$100, $60, $45, $35, $25, reserved seating

Like a wayward Santa for the Christmas-obsessed, legendary filmmaker, and raconteur John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, A Dirty Shame ) rides into town on his sleigh full of smut spreading yuletide cheer with his critically acclaimed one-man show, A John Waters Christmas. Putting the X in Xmas, Waters’s rapid-fire monologue explores and explodes traditional archetypes as he shares his compulsive desire to give and receive perverted gifts, a religious fanaticism for Santa Claus, and an unhealthy love of true crime holiday horror stories.

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