General Admission: $20
Students 13+ & Seniors: $10 (Contact us for tickets)
12 & under: Free

Heart Dance Recording Artist Michael Kent Smith is a composer who uses acoustic and electric guitars as well as traditional and folk instruments, performing on them and stitching the various strands together into a vivid, expressive musical tapestry. His compositions are a blend of Classical, Folk, Celtic and Jazz influences. His latest album, “After the Harvest” created a stir in the industry and rose to #13 on the U.S. charts and #2 on the European charts. The album was nominated for both the ZMR Acoustic Instrumental Album of the Year in the U.S. and the O.W.M.R. award for Acoustic Guitar Album of the Year in 2018.

Smith has toured Europe, Africa and Latin America and performs regularly around the United States with concerts at such notable venues as the Kennedy Center, The Festival Cervantino and the Chicago Cultural Center. He was the principal composer in Pong Unit, the ensemble fronted by poet Marc Smith, inventor of the Poetry Slam. In addition, Smith has won the Outstanding Soloist award at the prestigious Midwest Jazz festival and was voted Chicago’s Best Guitarist in 1990. As a solo artist he has released three CDs, “La Esperanza Sigue” in 2010, “Beauty Without Warning” in 2005 and “After the Harvest”, 2002, rereleased in 2017. Smith also has appeared as a guest artist on dozens of recordings with a recent guest spot on the new album by composer Monica Williams currently sitting at #3 on the Billboard instrumental chart.