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Our April issue includes a profile of Sarah Cartwright, the chief curator at The Ringling Museum. PLus our extensive arts coverage including Artist Series Concerts, Sarasota Art Museum, Arts Advocates, Key Chorale and the Sarasota Film Festival.
Our April issue includes a profile of Sarah Cartwright, the chief curator at The Ringling Museum. PLus our extensive arts coverage including Artist Series Concerts, Sarasota Art Museum, Arts Advocates, Key Chorale and the Sarasota Film Festival.
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happening this month<br />
Circus Arts Conservatory’s<br />
EDM concert and fundraiser,<br />
WONDERBALL on April 13<br />
Headliner is Norwegian DJ and producer Alan Walker<br />
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The Circus Arts Conservatory<br />
(CAC) has again WONDER-<br />
BALL, a high-energy event that<br />
will feature an electronic dance<br />
music (EDM) star. Proceeds will<br />
benefit its youth education programs.<br />
WONDERBALL’s dance concert experience<br />
will headlined by Norwegian DJ and<br />
producer Alan Walker. The event is on Saturday,<br />
April 13 at 7 p.m. in the Sailor Circus<br />
Arena in Sarasota.<br />
This year’s event features a larger stage<br />
with enhanced LED lasers, lights and video<br />
screens, in keeping with Walker’s recent<br />
multiple-stop sold-out arena tour. The vibe<br />
for WONDERBALL <strong>2024</strong> is neon and guests<br />
are encouraged to dress in dance-ready festival/clubwear.<br />
Opening up for Walker are DJ August<br />
(Harrison Koffman), DJ Pushman (Mike<br />
Putnam), and DJ Peter DiCaro from New<br />
York; DiCaro will also close out the event in<br />
the arena after Walker’s set. Students from<br />
the Sailor Circus Academy will perform<br />
during a special mission moment performance<br />
before Walker takes the stage.<br />
This is an all-ages welcome event; alcohol<br />
and bar service will be available to guests<br />
ages 21+ with proper ID. Concessions will<br />
also be available. The venue will be decorated<br />
and lighted to convey the ambience of an<br />
EDM show, with special circus touches as<br />
only the CAC can provide.<br />
The CAC’s youth education programs include<br />
its Sailor Circus Academy, the oldest<br />
youth circus in the U.S.; circus magnet programs<br />
at Booker Middle School and Sarasota<br />
High School; spring break and summer<br />
camps; and the Arts Integrated Education<br />
Program, an in-school, kinesthetic learning<br />
experience that supplements elementary<br />
and middle school science coursework.<br />
“With the success of WONDERBALL last<br />
year, we knew this was an event we needed<br />
to continue,” said Jennifer Mitchell, executive<br />
vice president/COO of the CAC. “The magic of<br />
the circus arts combined with the energy and<br />
visual possibilities of EDM and the amenities<br />
and technology of our Sailor Circus Arena are<br />
sure to create an evening that is truly unique<br />
in our community. We were thrilled to secure<br />
an artist of Alan’s reputation and look forward<br />
to welcoming him to Sarasota for what is sure<br />
to be a spectacular event.”<br />
Renowned for his ability to craft hypnotic,<br />
high energy tour sets that have captured<br />
the hearts of fans the world over, Walker,<br />
who is just 26 and is known for wearing a<br />
mask during his shows, has over 115 million<br />
followers across his social platforms, more<br />
than 12 billion YouTube views and 50 billion<br />
audio and video streams.<br />
Walker arrived on the music scene in late<br />
2015, with his debut hit single “Faded” garnering<br />
over 1.4 billion Spotify streams and<br />
3.1 billion YouTube video views. The single<br />
also earned him a BRIT awards nomination<br />
for Song of the Year, as well as a Norwegian<br />
Grammy win in the same category.<br />
After building a massive social following<br />
and releasing a string of successful singles –<br />
and collaborating with artists including Ava<br />
Max, Noah Cyrus, Sia, Bruno Mars, Hans<br />
Zimmer and Coldplay – the chart-topping<br />
debut album “Different World” arrived in late<br />
2018, amassing over 4 billion streams on Spotify.<br />
He has played over 650 headlining shows<br />
and festivals to date, including Coachella and<br />
Tomorrowland, in addition to selling out his<br />
worldwide arena tour, “The Aviation Tour.”<br />
In 2021, he delivered his “World of Walker”<br />
album and then, in 2022, he gradually<br />
unveiled the #Walkerverse: dropping his<br />
two-part Walkerverse album, he kicked off a<br />
tour of Europe and North America, playing a<br />
mammoth run of sold-out shows and upping<br />
the ante with insane visuals and dazzling<br />
production. In 2023, he released the song<br />
“Dreamer,” which reached 1 million views<br />
on YouTube within 13 days of its release.<br />
In addition to DJ Walker and several<br />
warm-up acts, the event promises an immersive<br />
experience with LED lasers, lights<br />
and video screens as well as a circus performance<br />
by Sailor Circus students.<br />
The immersive concert experience begins<br />
in the Sailor Circus Arena with doors<br />
opening at 7 p.m. A separate ticketed official<br />
WONDERBALL after-party will continue at<br />
Michael’s On East from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.,<br />
with local DJs taking the stage.<br />
For information or to purchase tickets, visit<br />
circusartswonderball.com. For more<br />
about Circus Arts Conservatory, visit<br />
CircusArts.org or call (941) 355-9335.<br />
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