Big Names Confirmed: Josh Groban, Kenny G, Amy Grant Added To Summer Schedule At Chautauqua Institution | News, Sports, Jobs

Tickets for Groban’s efficiency go on sale Friday.

Groban launched a brand new album on Friday. Titled CINEMATIC, the album is a tribute to the world of the silver display screen. Its 10 tracks embody songs from such film classics as The Godfather, Casablanca, The Lion King, Stand By Me and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

In addition to his efficiency at Chautauqua Institution this summer season, Groban introduced in December that he’ll embark on a North American tour with particular visitor Jennifer Hudson.

Groban has offered greater than 35 million albums worldwide. His catalog spans a collection of chart-topping blockbuster albums, together with his debut album Josh Groban, which has been licensed 5 instances platinum; Closer, licensed six instances platinum; Noël, licensed seven instances platinum; Awake, licensed two instances platinum; Illuminations, All Those Echoes, Stages, Bridges, and Harmony.

Singer Amy Grant poses for a portrait in New York on Thursday, April 16, 2026. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Groban made his Broadway debut in 2016 with a starring position in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. He garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actor In A Musical. He has expanded his presence with appearances on Glee, The Simpsons, The Office, CSI: NY, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and The Crazy Ones in addition to within the function movies Coffee Town, Muppets Most Wanted, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. In addition, he has starred within the Netflix collection

In 2022, he returned to Radio City Music Hall for a residency of his Great Big Radio City Show and launched a nationwide dwell tour. Groban additionally starred in ABC’s particular Beauty and the Beast: A thirtieth Celebration because the Beast in December 2022.

In the spring of 2023 Groban took to Broadway as soon as once more, performing within the revival of Sweeney Todd, enjoying the title position which earned him Tony and Grammy nominations.

Institution officers additionally lately introduced that Kenny G will carry out Thursday, Aug. 27, at 8 pm within the Chautauqua Amphitheater. Kenny G’s skilled profession started with Barry White’s The Love Unlimited Orchestra at age 17. He performed with the Seattle funk band Cold, Bold & Together earlier than becoming a member of the Jeff Lorber Fusion in 1980. His solo profession took off after signing with Arista Records in 1982. His debut album, Kenny G, was recorded with members of the Jeff Lorber Fusion and launched in 1982. Kenny G’s fourth solo album, Duotones (1986), marked the beginning of his most commercially profitable interval, that includes the hit single “Songbird”. His 1992 album, Breathless, turned the best-selling instrumental album ever, and his first vacation album, Miracles: The Holiday Album, offered over 13 million copies. He has labored on soundtracks for movies reminiscent of The Bodyguard and collaborated with artists, together with Andrea Bocelli and Frank Sinatra. In 2021, HBO launched a documentary on Kenny G, Listening to Kenny G.

“If you’re going to criticize me, I’m just not going to go with that because I already know that I’m doing my very, very best. So, there’s where the confidence comes from,” Kenny G mentioned in a 2021 interview with the Associated Press when the documentary was launched. “Did it ever really hurt me? Honestly, no. Because I’ve got my armor of knowing I’m doing my very, very best. That’s why I practice every day… I’m never a little rusty — ever.”

Josh Groban, left, and Natalie McQueen pose throughout a ceremony honoring Groban with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Amy Grant will carry out Friday, July 31, within the amphitheater, that includes songs from her first new album in over a decade, “The Me That Remains,” dropping this May.

Grant is a six-time Grammy winner and the spouse of nation music star Vince Gill. The singer — additionally identified for “Every Heartbeat” and “That’s What Love is For” — has her roots in gospel music however discovered a bigger viewers with the discharge of her 1991 document “Heart in Motion.”

“I’ve always been driven by curiosity and I think sometimes a potential listener can lose interest because of how something is pegged,” Grant advised The Associated Press final week. “Sometimes the way I’m introduced, I’m on the side of the stage waiting to go out and just the verbiage, I’d go, “Whew, I wouldn’t stay for that show.” Nothing about that me. Curiosity is such a fantastic factor. Curiosity makes us lean in. Everybody’s religion journey is exclusive. I’m staking the whole lot on the truth that it is God who finds us. And I belief that. And I feel how we let that exhibit in our lives would possibly make another person curious to learn in. As an individual of deep religion, I’ve stood exterior beneath stormy skies, beneath a full moon at totally different instances in my life and mentioned, “Am I just talking to the ceiling? Are you really there?” And I do not know, I come away and go, “I don’t know where else to turn.” But that is my journey.”