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  • 08-18-23

    Voodoo Fire Video World Premiere

    From Winger's New Album Seven
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    Watch the video for Winger's newest single 'Voodoo Fire' from their new album 'Seven'.

    'Seven' is now available everywhere. Order the album & Stream the fourth single Voodoo Fire at https://orcd.co/winger
  • 05-05-23

    Tears of Blood Video World Premiere

    From Winger's New Album Seven
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    Watch the video for Winger's newest single 'Tears Of Blood' from their new album 'Seven'.

    'Seven' is now available everywhere. Order the album & Stream the third single Tears Of Blood at https://orcd.co/winger
  • 04-06-23

    It All Comes Back Around Video World Premiere

    From Winger's New Album Seven
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    Watch the video for Winger's newest single, 'It All Comes Back Around' from their new album 'Seven' due for release on May 5

    Order & Stream the second single It All Comes Back Around available now at https://orcd.co/winger
  • 03-10-23

    Proud Desperado Video World Premiere

    From Winger's New Album Seven
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    Watch the video for Winger's new single, 'Proud Desperado' from their new album 'Seven' due for release on May 5

    Honored to have written this song with the great Desmond Child!

    Order & Stream the first single Proud Desperado available now at https://orcd.co/winger
  • 03-10-23

    Winger Seven available for pre-order now!

    Winger's New Album 'Seven' out May 5th
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    Pre-Sale is now available for Winger's 7th studio album featuring all of the original members: Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Rod Morgenstein, and Paul Taylor, plus John Roth, who has been with the band for many years. The new single & video for the song “Proud Desperado” is out now. https://orcd.co/prouddesperado

    A limited edition silver vinyl is available exclusively from the Frontiers U.S. & EU webstores.
  • 02-16-23

    Los Angeles Ballet - Featuring Ghosts (Christopher Wheeldon / CF Kip Winger)

    Los Angeles Ballet - March 16 - 18, 2023
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    Los Angeles Ballet Presents An Evening of Christopher Wheeldon

    GHOSTS
    Wheeldon/Winger

    FOOL'S PARADISE - LAB Premiere
    Wheeldon/Talbot

    MORPHOSES - LAB Premiere
    Wheeldon/Ligeti

    Christopher Wheeldon is a major choreographer of our time. Los Angeles Ballet presents an evening of three iconic Wheeldon works exclusively at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

    Ghosts offers a realm where ethereal beings manifest in a shadowy playground.
    Fool's Paradise, set to a shimmering, filmic score by Joby Talbot, presents a series of luminous encounters in a setting described as “Hollywood meets Mount Olympus.”
    Morphoses is an athletic ballet for four dancers. Each couple presents a complex pas de deux requiring flexibility and lyricism.

    BROAD STAGE
    Thursday, March 16, 7:30 PM
    Friday, March 17, 7:30 PM
    Saturday, March 18, 7:30 PM


  • 07-23-20

    CF Kip Winger featured in Classical 91's Local Composers Month

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    Classical With A Kick: Kip Winger On The Harmony Between Heavy Metal And Orchestral Music

    In celebration of 91Classical’s Local Composers Month, we posed six questions to some of Nashville’s classical music creators. This week, check in with Kip Winger. After finding tremendous success with his rock band Winger, Kip has made a name for himself as a classical composer. And he says the two genres have more in common than you may think.

  • 10-09-19

    Playbill Announces: Eden Espinosa to Headline Concert of New Musical Thriller Get Jack

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    Eden Espinosa to Headline Concert of New Musical Thriller Get Jack. The concert will also feature Jeanna De Waal, Jeanette Bayardelle, and Isabel Santiago.

    Wicked and Brooklyn star Eden Espinosa will appear in an upcoming concert of the new musical thriller Get Jack October 29 at 7 PM at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan. Tony nominee Kelly Devine (Come From Away, Rocky) will direct.

    Rock musician Kip Winger and Damien Gray collaborated on the musical based on London serial killer Jack the Ripper, in which his five female victims return to tell their stories, and get justice.

    The concert will also feature Jackie Evancho, P.J. Griffith (Rock of Ages), Jeanna De Waal (Diana: A New Musical), Jeanette Bayardelle (The Color Purple), Matt Hetherington (Becoming Nancy), Isabel Santiago (In the Heights), and Tony LePage (Come From Away).

    Espinosa is also set to star the upcoming 15th anniversary benefit concert of BKLYN: The Musical.

    TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/get-jack-in-concert-tickets-71859061387


  • 10-07-19

    Broadway World Announces - Jackie Evancho, Eden Espinosa, Jeanna De Waal and More to Star in GET JACK In Concert

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    A concert of songs from the new rock musical thriller, GET JACK will be presented Tuesday October 29th, 2019 at 7pm on Stage 2 at Rockwood Music Hall on NYC's Lower Eastside. GET JACK follows the five victims of Jack The Ripper from the dirty streets of Whitechapel, to the strangest depths of Hell. Upon their demise, a devilish "Keeper" arms the women with supernatural powers and sends them back to London on a mission to identify their now-too-infamous killer and bring him to hell. GET JACK is an epic hybrid of hard rock and symphonic classical with music by Kip Winger, lyrics and book by Damien Gray and direction by 2019 Olivier Award Winner Kelly Devine.

    The 10/29 concert will feature performances by Jackie Evancho (Platinum Recording Artist, AGT), Eden Espinosa (Wicked, Falsettos), Jeanna de Waal (Diana, Kinky Boots), P.J. Griffith (Rock of Ages, American Idiot), Matt Hetherington (Becoming Nancy, The Voice- Australia), Jeannette Bayardelle (Girl From North Country, The Color Purple), Isabel Santiago (Giant, In The Heights) and Tony LePage (Come From Away, Rock Of Ages). The concept album of GET JACK (which entered the Billboard Charts at #7 is available on Apple Music and Spotify as well as for a purchase at the concert.

    Composer Kip Winger rose to fame in the late 1980's as the charismatic frontman/ songwriter of the band Winger, releasing such hits as "Headed For A Heartbreak", "Seventeen" and "Easy Come, Easy Go". Kip's album Conversations with Nijinsky was nominated for a 2017 Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

    Writer Damien Gray penned the film Florentine (produced by Francis Ford Coppola) and has developed work for the Sundance Theater, Live Nation, The Walt Disney Company and Universal Studios Japan, most recently developing:directing SING On Tour. Director Kelly Devine recently won the 2019 Olivier Award for Best Choreography for The West End Production of Come From Away. She also received Tony nominations for her work in Come From Away and Rocky on Broadway. Her other work on Broadway includes choreography for the musicals Rock Of Ages (currently running Off-Broadway), Escape To Margaritaville (currently on tour), Zhivago and the upcoming musical Diana. GET JACK is music directed by Andy Peterson (Tootsie, Atomic).

    GET JACK In Concert is produced by Anita Waxman in association with P.J. Griffith and ClockJack Productions. A limited number of tickets are still available to the public.

    Rockwood Music Hall is located at 196 Allen Street (at Houston), New York, NY, 10002 Tickets are $20. More information about the show is available at https://www.GetJack.com

    TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/get-jack-in-concert-tickets-71859061387
  • 09-19-19

    Get Jack! A Musical Thriller - In Concert Oct 29, 2019 in NYC

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    GET JACK in Concert! Songs from the bloody new rock musical thriller, Tuesday October 29th, 2019 at 7:00 PM

    Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2
    196 Allen Street (at Houston), New York, NY, 10002

    Get Jack, A Musical Thriller
    Music by Grammy-Nominee Kip Winger
    Book/Lyrics by Damien Gray
    Directed by 2019 Olivier Award Winner Kelly Devine
    Musical directed by Andy Peterson

    The concert will feature performances by Jackie Evancho (Multi-Platinum Recording Artist, A.G.T.), Eden Espinosa (Wicked, Falsettos), Jeanna de Waal (Diana, Kinky Boots), Pj Griffith (Rock of Ages, American Idiot), Jeannette Bayardelle (Girl From North Country, Color Purple), Matt Hetherington (Becoming Nancy, The Voice Australia), Tony LePage (Come From Away, Rock Of Ages) and Isabel Santiago (Giant, In The Heights).

    WEBSITE: https://www.GetJack.com
  • 08-02-19

    No.7 on Billboard!

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    Get Jack Enters No.7 on Billboard! The album can be found at these locations:

    DOWNLOAD: https://music.apple.com/us/album/get-jack/1467461591?ls=1&app=itunes

    PHYSICAL CD's:
    https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/cfkipwinger
    https://www.amazon.com/Get-Jack-Gray-Damien-Winger/dp/B07SRF1MBQ
  • 06-21-19

    Get Jack! A Musical Thriller By Kip Winger & Damien Gray

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    The Get Jack Concept Album is complete! The pre-sale of this album begins June 21st through July 19th. If you participate in this, your pre-order will automatically enter your name for your chance to win a custom painted, one-of-a-kind, Get Jack guitar. If you choose to support us in ordering the pre-sale, please go to GETJACK.COM, email your proof of purchase and you will automatically become eligible to win the Get Jack guitar, as well as a special bonus track for Winger fans. The winner will be announced via FaceBook Live in August.

    GET JACK, tells the story of five women on the night they were murdered and mutilated by Jack The Ripper. The 5 murdered women, AKA, The Canonical Five are back and the spotlight is now on them!

    Act 1 is a fall back through time in which we meet each of The Canonical Five in a series of interviews regarding the night of their murders.

    In the second act, the ladies take on a mission and journey through the mind of a serial killer to force him to reveal himself to the world. They torment their killer by making him face his demons and then drag the murdering bastard to hell!

    “We’re five slaughtered women! Remember Our Names! Canonical Five, Canonical Five, Kelly, Chapman, Eddowes, Nichols and Stride!”

    Though history has brought forth multiple suspects, no one has ever definitively identified the killer, and neither does Get Jack. In this show the character of Jack The Ripper is a composite of different suspects put together to form one man locked in a fierce battle between madness and denial.

    Since this concept album was recorded the show has continued to evolve through several workshops and is now a full-scale musical gearing up for its first production. In this concept album the story is told as a remembrance of past events, while the story in the staged musical happens in real time. Because of this shift, some songs and music featured here will not appear in the staged musical.

    Buried in the work are references to everything from infamous serial killers to Shakespeare. The devil is in the details. Have fun playing our funny little games. Crank up your speakers and let’s Get Jack!


  • 10-30-18

    Get Jack Update!

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    Get the latest news and updates on Kip Winger, and Damien Gray’s, musical thriller, Get Jack! Live Video Update can be viewed in its entirety on the Get Jack FaceBook Page. Thanks for following us on this project!

  • 07-18-18

    CF Kip Winger's 'Ghosts' - Paul Vasterling’s 20th Anniversary Gala, Nashville Ballet

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    Paul Vasterling’s 20th Anniversary Gala
    Andrew Jackson Hall

    Tarantella choreography by George Balanchine
    Music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay
    Live music performed by the Nashville Symphony

    Ghosts © excerpt choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
    Music by C.F. Kip Winger
    Live music performed by the Nashville Symphony

    Bloom excerpt choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
    Music by Philip Glass
    Live music performed by the Nashville Symphony

    World premiere choreography by Carlos Pons Guerra

    I Enjoy You choreography by Darrell Moultrie
    Music composed and performed live by Louis York

    Romeo & Juliet excerpt choreography by Paul Vasterling
    Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Live music performed by the Nashville Symphony

    Firebird excerpt choreography by Paul Vasterling
    Music by Igor Stravinsky
    Live music performed by the Nashville Symphony

    Honor Nashville Ballet’s extraordinary past, exceptional present and groundbreaking future. Join Nashville Ballet for the ultimate evening of celebration commemorating Paul Vasterling’s 20th anniversary as Artistic Director. Curating a collection of classical and contemporary works never before seen at Nashville Ballet with a few familiar favorites, Vasterling sets the tone for the company’s next 20 years of athleticism, artistry, imagination and innovation—all culminating in a truly grand finale featuring a procession of Nashville Ballet artists from School of Nashville Ballet students to the professional company.
  • 01-19-18

    Frontiers Music srl Press Release

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    CF Kip Winger - Solo Box Set Coming Soon

    On March 23, 2018, Frontiers Music Srl will release a box set, collecting all the solo works of acclaimed Grammy Nominated Composer Kip Winger into one collection. The set will be comprised of Kip's solo albums, including:

    - This Conversation Seems Like a Dream (1997)
    - Down Incognito (1998)
    - Songs from the Ocean Floor (2000)
    - From the Moon to the Sun (2008)

    In addition, there is going to be a bonus disc (exclusive to the physical edition, while stock lasts), which includes a new previously unreleased song and all of the bonus cuts from previous records.

    The "Solo Box Set Collection" will be a strictly limited edition of 1,500 copies (worldwide) and include five cds in vinyl replica cases and a booklet with liner notes written by Kip Winger. Pre-order here: http://radi.al/KipWingerCollection

    Kip Winger rode the wave of the '80s/early '90s pop-metal explosion first with Alice Cooper and then in the wildly successful band of his namesake, Winger, before beginning a solo career in the late '90s. His debut solo effort, "This Conversation Seems Like A Dream", was released in 1997 and supported with a solo acoustic tour. An acoustic album featuring the new Track "Another Way" and of past favorites, "Down Incognito" was then released in 1999. Winger followed it with his second proper solo album, 2000's "Songs from the Ocean Floor", which addressed his grief over the loss of his wife, who had passed away in a car accident shortly after the release of his first solo album.

    After a long hiatus with his solo work, Kip returned with "From The Moon To The Sun" in 2008; an extensive body of work that includes everything from straight up heavy and dark music to absolutely melodic and beautiful works.

    More recently, Winger has enjoyed success composing classical music. Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon created the ballet "Ghosts", based on a piece Kip wrote, which premiered at the San Francisco Ballet on February 9, 2010. The ballet was a hit and was brought back for a five seasons in 2010. Ghosts will make its Nashville debut in May 2018 with Nashville Ballet.

    Winger then composed a four-part work entitled "Conversations with Nijinsky", intended to celebrate the life of ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. A recording of the piece performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra on the album "C.F. Kip Winger: Conversations with Nijinsky" entered at number one on the traditional classical category on the Billboard music charts. "Conversations with Nijinsky" was also nominated in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition category at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. Winger also recently finished a two act musical, Get Jack, which is currently in development in New York City.

    This collection is an unmissable opportunity to get to know in-depth the astounding musical abilities and art of one of today's musical greats!

    TRACK LISTING:

    CD 1 - This Conversation Seems Like A Dream
    Kiss Of Life
    Monster
    Endless Circles
    Angel Of The Underground
    Steam
    I'll Be Down
    Naked Son
    Daniel
    How Far Will We Go
    Don't Let Go
    Here

    CD 2 - Down Incognito
    Another Way
    Down Incognito
    Under One Condition
    Miles Away
    Steam
    Headed For A Heartbreak
    How Far Will We Go
    Naked Son
    Spell I'm Under
    Easy Come Easy Go
    Daniel

    CD 3 - Songs From The Ocean Floor
    Cross
    Crash The Wall
    Sure Was A Wildflower
    Two Lovers Stand
    Landslide
    Faster
    Song Of Midnight
    Free
    Only One Word
    Broken Open
    Resurrection
    Everything You Need

    CD 4 - From The Moon To The Sun
    Every Story Told
    Nothing
    Where Will You Go
    Pages And Pages
    In Your Eyes Another Life
    Runaway
    California
    What We Are
    One Big Game
    Why
    Reason To Believe

    CD 5 - Bonus Cd
    Hands Of Love
    Monster (European Bonus Track)
    Holy Man
    Free (Instrumental)
    Ghosts
    Now And Forever
    Kiss Of Life (Demo)
    Don't Let Go (Demo)
    Headed For A Heartbreak (Demo 1987)
    Hour Of Need (Demo)
    Monster (Demo)
    Rainbow In The Rose
    Blind Revolution Mad
    Headed For A Heartbreak (Live)

    Pre-order here: http://radi.al/KipWingerCollection
  • 10-06-17

    Get Jack News!

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    GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE KIP WINGER AND ACCLAIMED WRITER/DIRECTOR DAMIEN GRAY TO DEBUT NEW MUSICAL THRILLER IN TWO CONCERT PRESENTATIONS ON MONDAY,,OCTOBER 30, 2017 AT SIR STUDIOS

    (New York, NY)

    Grammy Award-Nominated composer and rock icon Kip Winger, in his theatrical composing debut, and acclaimed writer/director Damien Gray (Atomic the Musical) will present two concert presentations of their new musical thriller GET JACK on Monday, October 30 at SIR Studios, 520 W 25th St. The concerts are invitation-only.

    And now if you will, a murder review, where 5 fallen women make their bloody debut. A legend is born as blood drips from a knife and this is the story I'm telling tonight.

    One of the most murderously debated, debunked, and devoured tales of all time gets 'ripped' to guitar shreds as five female victims of Jack the Ripper rise from the dead to track down their killer and get their glorious revenge. Brought to spine-tingling life with music by a genre-defying rock icon, GET JACK combines Winger's mastery of classical compositions and rock glory in one bloodtastic musical. Giving voice to the vindicated victims is innovative and acclaimed book writer, lyricist and director Damien Gray, whose unique career path has crossed
    genres and disciplines - from directing for Walt Disney World to writing for both theater and film.

    The killer cast features - The Canonical Five: Eden Espinosa (Wicked, Rags) as Catherine Eddows, Charissa Hogeland (BAZ, Heathers: The Musical) as Mary Jane Kelly, Katie Thompson (Gypsy, Pump Boys And Dinettes) as Annie Chapman, Carrie Manolakos (Wicked) as Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols, and Shannon Conley (Hedwig And the Angry Inch) as Elizabeth Stride; as well as, Tony Award Winner Levi Kreis (Million Dollar Quartet's Jerry Lee Lewis) as The Player, PJ Griffith (We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia,) as The Keeper and Michael Falzon (Australia's Rock of Ages & Hedwig And The Angry Inch Australia) as BitPart.
  • 10-06-17

    Introduction to the Get Jack Cast

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    GET JACK CAST

    Top Row
    Eden Espinosa, Katie Thompson, Charissa Hogeland, Levi Kreis

    Bottom Row
    Michael Falzon, Carrie Manolakos, Shannon Conley, PJ Griffith

    Get Jack, by Kip Winger and Damien Gray. Music Director Andy Peterson
  • 08-29-17

    Get Jack, the new musical by Kip Winger and Damien Gray

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    Get Jack! Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned. A KILLER NEW MUSICAL BY Kip Winger and Damien Gray coming soon! For more information, or to buy tickets, please visit their Kickstarter Campaign.
  • 04-26-17

    CF Kip Winger World Premiere

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    World Premiere of Grammy Nominated CF Kip Winger's "A Parting Grace" from his #1 Billboard Debut Classical CD "Conversations With Nijinsky"

    Sun River Music Festival - 40th Anniversary Summer Festival

    CLASSICAL CONCERT I - Saturday August 12, 2017 - Tower Theatre in Bend - Featuring concertmaster Steven Moeckel

    ROSSINI La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
    MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
    KIP WINGER Parting Grace (World Premiere)
    MOZART Symphony No. 36 in C Major (Linz), K. 425 (from the first ever Sunriver Music Festival program 40 years ago!)

    http://sunrivermusic.org

    http://sunrivermusic.org/events/tickets
  • 03-15-17

    Nashville Ballet to feature C.F. Kip Winger's "Ghosts"

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    Nashville Ballet 'steps into the future' with ambitious 2017-18 season

    "Modern Masters," May 4-6, 2018 (TPAC's Jackson Hall.) "Modern Masters" will include three ballets - "6 Dances,," with Jiri Kylian's clever choreography set to Mozart's "Six German Dances"; "Ghosts'" featuring choreography by Christopher Wheeldon and music by Grammy-nominated composer C.F. Kip Winger,,previously known as front man for rock band Winger; and George Balanchine's "Western Symphony!" set in the Old West and featuring American folk tunes.

    MODERN MASTERS
    KYLIAN, WHEELDON & BALANCHINE

    MAY 4-6, 2018
    TPAC'S JACKSON HALL

    Six Dances Choreography by Jiri KYLIAN
    Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ghosts Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
    Music by Grammy-nominated composer C.F. Kip Winger

    Western Symphony Choreography by George Balanchine
    Music by Hershy Kay

    Live Music Performed by the Nashville Symphony

    Tickets on sale soon - http://www.nashvilleballet.com/2017-2018-season/