Stepping Out

They still like to boogie

KC & The Sunshine Band visit Long Island

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In Concert

KC & The Sunshine Band
It’s time to party like it’s 1975 instead of 2015 with KC & The Sunshine Band. Lead singer and keyboardist Harry Wayne “KC” Casey, who led The Sunshine Band from Florida to the top of the pop and disco charts from 1975 through the early ‘80s, shows that he can still get his groove on. The band continues to delight audiences with their big hits, including “Get Down Tonight,” “That’s The Way (I Like It),” “Shake Your Booty,” “I’m Your Boogie Man,” “Boogie Shoes,” and “Please Don’t Go,” among others. Their unique blending of Caribbean, pop, R&B and Latin-inspired infectious grooves and their distinctive “sunshine sound” remains vibrant, even after 40 years. The band is joined by the Sugar Hill Gang, the first commercially successful rap group to emerge out of the late ‘70s, with their Top 40 hit “Rapper’s Delight.”
Friday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m. $69.50, $49.50 and $39.50. NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury. (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

Classical Sounds

Mineola Choral Society
The Mineola Choral Society salutes Beethoven when the chorus performs an all-Beethoven program at its annual winter concert. The stirring program features the beautiful and engaging Mass in C Major and the final movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, which includes the setting of Friedrich Schiller’s poem An Die Freude (Ode to Joy). The “Ode to Joy” is the culmination of the Ninth Symphony and is the last symphonic music that Beethoven completed. The poem, which combines a quest for religious meaning with the democratic ideals of an era, is profoundly expressed in Beethoven’s dramatic and joyous music. Freeport and Baldwin residents Mary Ellen Kahn, Ellen Kelly, Phyllis Shakespeare, Mary Schmidt, and Margo Di Paola are among the Choral Society members featured in this concert.
Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 p.m. $20, $15 seniors and students. Cathedral of the Incarnation, 50 Cathedral Ave., Garden City. (516) 294-1175 or www.mineolachoralsociety.org.