The Temple Theatre in Saginaw, MI, is set to host a series of captivating musical events that promise to intrigue and inspire music aficionados. Featuring performances like the SBSO's Symphonie Fantastique with harpist Jaymee Haefner, the Saginaw Choral Society's exploration of Beethoven and Mozart, and the anticipated Return of the Red Violin with Elizabeth Pitcairn, this season promises an exhilarating dive into the world of orchestral and choral music. With iconic compositions and renowned artists, this is a musical feast not to be missed.

A Symphony of Masters: Saginaw's Musical Showcases

Nestled in the heart of Saginaw, the Temple Theatre is set to host a breathtaking array of musical performances that promise to enchant and enthrall. From the whimsical tunes of Blippi's Join the Band Tour to the classy brassy notes of the Saginaw Choral Society's holiday classic, these events offer something for everyone. Experience the haunting beauty of Symphonie Fantastique or the virtuosic mastery of the Red Violin with Elizabeth Pitcairn. Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of rhythm, melody, and orchestral grandeur as the Temple Theatre opens its doors to an unforgettable season of music.

Harmonious Holidays: A Celebration of Music and Magic at the Temple Theatre

This season, Temple Theatre in Saginaw, MI, transforms into a hub of musical excellence. With a series of captivating performances, including orchestral masterpieces like 'Symphonie Fantastique,' 'Titans of Music' featuring Beethoven and Mozart, and 'Return of the Red Violin' with the renowned 'Red Mendelssohn' Stradivarius, audiences are in for an auditory feast. Featuring brilliant artists like harpist Jaymee Haefner and virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn, these events promise to deliver unforgettable experiences that resonate with both classical aficionados and newcomers.

A Symphony of Sounds: Unveiling the Magic at Temple Theatre

Take a journey through the dark and mysterious forest of classical music with Symphonie Fantastique, featuring world famous harpist Jaymee Haefner. Begin the evening with Wagner’s Rienzi Overture, followed by Jaymee Haefner joining us on the Temple Theatre stage with her harp to play Ginastera’s Harp Concerto. Lastly, we end the evening with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a beautiful and dark musical dive into a brilliant and poisoned mind. Music programming subject to change.

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SBSO: Symphonie Fantastique

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Take your Holiday all the way on Tuesday December 10th as the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra rings in the holiday season by celebrating with a beloved local band, Brush Street, featuring Mike Brush and original Christmas music alongside beloved back-to-back holiday classics. It isn’t truly the holiday season until you celebrate with Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra.

SBSO: Holiday All the Way

Celebrate the Season with Musical Holiday Cheer!
Saginaw Choral Society present this season’s holidays classic, A Classy Brassy Christmas & More, with Saginaw Youth Choir, Saginaw Elite Big Band, and this year’s special guest, Todd Michael Hall adding his wonderful soaring voice to our program.

Saginaw Choral Society: A Classy Brassy Christmas

C’mon and join Blippi to make music in your hometown in the brand new live: Blippi: Join the Band Tour! Blippi will be joined onstage by Meekah, their singing and dancing  buddies and LIVE musicians to explore what makes music, including sounds, rhythms, and instruments, through all your favorite Blippi hits. So grab your drumsticks, tune up you guitar, and move those feet with Blippi and get ready for a musical performance that’s fun for the whole family!

Blippi: Join the Band Tour!

As the night grows late and everyone else has retired to bed, a wondrous transformation begins. In the enchanting realm of this performance, you will witness the splendor of Tchaikovsky’s iconic score, which weaves its melodic tapestry throughout the ballet, setting the stage for Clara’s extraordinary journey.

Classical Arts Entertainment Presents: The Nutcracker

Art Lewis joins the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra to narrate Copland’s Lincoln Portrait in a concert comprised entirely of music from American composers, featuring Rouse’s Symphony No. 1, painter Valerie Allen painting live alongside the orchestra for Michael Toke’s pieces Green and Bright Blue Music, and the Michigan Premiere of local pianist Catherine McMichael’s Celestial Navigation. Patrons are encouraged to show their support for their favorite college football team by wearing their respective colors. Music programming subject to change

SBSO: Green Vs. Blue: The Concert Tailgate Experience

Featuring guest artist and acclaimed author Johnathan Rand
Gather round the campfire for a night of songs and tales as Michigan Chiller’s author Johnathan Rand weaves his Campfire Stories, set to an eerie backdrop of haunting melodies performed by the Saginaw Choral Society.

Saginaw Choral Society: Campfire Stories

From the bombastic and epic, to the folky and mystical, Get The Led Out (GTLO) have captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the concert stage. The Philadelphia-based group consists of six veteran musicians intent on delivering Led Zeppelin live, like you’ve never heard before. Utilizing the multi-instrumentalists at their disposal, GTLO re-create the songs in all their depth and glory with the studio overdubs that Zeppelin themselves never performed. When you hear three guitars on the album…GTLO delivers three guitarists on stage. No wigs or fake English accents, GTLO brings what the audience wants…a high energy Zeppelin concert with an honest, heart-thumping intensity.

Get The Led Out

CHARLIE BERENS is a comedian, New York Times Best Selling Author, Emmy-winning journalist, musician and creator of the Manitowoc Minute. The Wisconsin native has been featured on Comedy Central, Fox, CBS, Funny or Die, TBS, Variety, MTV News and more. He creates weekly content for his various social platforms and has amassed over 7.5 million followers.

Charlie Berens: Good Old Fashioned Tour

“Steve Martin and Martin Short’s “The Dukes of Funnytown!” is a show that redefines the form in unexpected and profound ways, from two of the funniest, most influential and acclaimed talents of the past century. Their humor is often subversive, but it is always a joyous self-deprecating romp from two comedy masters driven to make each other laugh as much as the audience.

Steve Martin & Martin Short “Dukes of Funnytown!”

Join cellist Yo-Yo Ma for an evening of music and words. In this one night-only performance, Ma performs a special selection of his favorite pieces and shares stories about a life dedicated to music.

An Evening With Yo-Yo Ma: Reflections in Words and Music

Classical Arts Entertainment’s “We Dance” program provides the youngest dancers an excellent opportunity to audition, rehearse, and perform with the professional international touring ballet troupe the State Ballet Theater of Ukraine.

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At age 86, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 8 GRAMMY Awards, a

Buddy Guy: Damn Right Farewell

A tribute to the victims of the Kosovo Conflict of 1998-99, Karl Jenkins’ composition “The Armed Man” draws inspiration from the 15th-century French melody, “L’homme armé”. This powerful musical piece combines elements of the traditional Mass text with secular text to convey a poignant narrative of the descent into war and its devastating aftermath.
“The Armed Man” depicts the mounting threat of war while incorporating moments of introspection. It vividly portrays the horrors inflicted by war and concludes with a glimmer of hope for peace in the new millennium, envisioning a world where sorrow, pain, and death can be overcome.

Saginaw Choral Society: The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace

For two decades now, Greensky Bluegrass have been building an empire, brick by brick.  They are widely known for their dazzling live performances and relentless touring schedule, but that is only the tip of the complex tale of the five musicians that make up Greensky Bluegrass: Anders Beck [dobro], Michael Arlen Bont [banjo], Dave Bruzza [guitar], Mike Devol [upright bass], and Paul Hoffman [Mandolin].  The five are connected through a deep bond, just as they are seasoned road warriors, they’re a band of brothers who have seen each other through decades of ups and downs, personal and collective highlights, and the moments when life turns it all upside down. These are real people having real experiences. As with traditional bluegrass, they write about their own contemporary day-to-day happenings, emotions, and experiences in the modern world.

Greensky Bluegrass

NOEL is a Broadway style production unlike any other currently available in Michigan.  Set in Saginaw’s historic and beautifully restored Temple Theater, Noel will leave its audience feeling perhaps a little nostalgic, certainly inspired, and hopefully even a bit awestruck.  We invite you to join us in December 2023 at the Temple Theater to Experience Christmas in a new and wonderful way – at NOEL!

NOEL: Experience Christmas

Festive celebration of the season! Immerse yourself in the beautifully decorated theatre listening to joyous melodies of traditional holiday favorites. Enjoy the magical “sounds of the season” brought to life in Mid-Michigan by the combined talents of Saginaw Choral Society, Saginaw Youth Choir, The Saginaw Elite Big Band, and special guest artist, Billy Petty.

Saginaw Choral Society: A Classy Brassy Christmas & More

Classical Arts Entertainment presents the ballet fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in two acts with one intermission.

There are fairy tales that inspire creators to create performances in different genres and directions. One of these was the favorite fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” This time, the fairy tale comes to life in dance and staging by the State Ballet Theater of Ukraine. Our ballet is a story about love, friendship, witchcraft, and the eternal struggle between good and evil.

The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Over the course of his forty-year career, Platinum-selling and GRAMMY-nominated singer & actor Chris Isaak has performed to sold-out crowds across the globe with his longtime band Silvertone. His music and film credits include thirteen critically acclaimed studio albums, twelve chart-topping singles along with several motion pictures, such as The Silence of the Lambs and That Thing You Do!. His work has also taken him behind the scenes, creating music for multiple film soundtracks, including Eyes Wide Shut, True Romance, Wild at Heart, and Blue Velvet. Isaak has starred in his own critically acclaimed television series The Chris Isaak Show on SHOWTIME, has previously served as a judge on The X Factor Australia, and hosted the music talk show, The Chris Isaak Hour on BIO. 2019 marked the 30th Anniversary of Isaak’s beloved Heart-Shaped World album, which includes his breakthrough classic “Wicked Game”. Newly released Everybody Knows It’s Christmas is Isaak’s second career Christmas album and features 13 tracks of originals and covers. Isaak was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance by the Americana Honors.

Chris Isaak: It's Almost Christmas Tour

At age 86, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 8 GRAMMY Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

Buddy Guy Damn Right Farewell

It is said Beethoven met Mozart only once. Armed with a letter of introduction, he had the ambition of taking lessons from the older Mozart, whom he considered to be the greatest living composer.

Saginaw Choral Society: Titans of Music

A legendary instrument and world class virtuoso violinist return to Saginaw to perform at The Temple Theatre in Return of The Red Violin, featuring special guest Elizabeth Pitcairn and the legendary ‘Red Mendelssohn’ Stradivarius violin, one of the most valuable violins on the planet. We begin the evening with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, before Elizabeth Pitcairn takes the stage with the ‘Red Mendelssohn’ Stradivarius to play Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto op. 64 with our orchestra. We finish the evening with a timeless and powerful classic, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 1.

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