Dix Hills Performing Arts Center

Santana
Santana is the primary exponent of Latin-tinged rock, particularly due to its combination of Latin percussion (congas, timbales, etc.) with bandleader Carlos Santana's distinctive, high-pitched lead guitar playing....

Dr. Judith Alstadter
Dr. Alstadter is a graduate from Juilliard and received her Doctorate from Yale. She is a concert pianist who has performed in the US, Europe and the Caribbean. Dr. Alstadter is an official Steinway Artist, a well-known music educator affiliated with several universities and a popular speaker, performer, coach, and workshop clinician for colleges and music organizations....

Steely Dan
Most rock & roll bands are a tightly wound unit that developed their music through years of playing in garages and clubs around their hometown. Steely Dan never subscribed to that aesthetic. As the vehicle for the songwriting of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan defied all rock & roll conventions....

Karen Oberlin
Based in New York, Karen Oberlin is a flexible singer/actress who has performed vocal jazz as well as cabaret and traditional pre-rock pop. Oberlin, whose influences (direct or indirect) range from Barbra Streisand to Ella Fitzgerald to Doris Day, is capable of singing straight-ahead bop but is far from a jazz purist or a jazz snob....