Posts Tagged ‘Durham Performing Arts Center’

Aaron Lewis, Kellie Pickler, Thompson Square, Jana Kramer and Jason Michael Carroll at DPAC for WQDR Country for Kids on November 23rd

Posted: October 24, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Concert, Music
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)

Durham, NC

November 23, 2013

Presented by 94.7 QDR, Country For Kids will feature live performances from five country stars including:

Proceeds from the concert will benefit the North Carolina Children’s Hospital in the celebratory culmination of the 12th N.C. Children’s Promise Radiothon. The annual Radiothon is UNC Health Care’s largest fundraising event each year, a day full of miraculous stories being broadcast live from the N.C. Children’s Hospital lobby on nearly 20 Curtis Media Group radio stations.

Tickets: 

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E004B30BF3A4142?brand=durham&camefrom=CFC_DPAC_QDR13

Ron White is A Little Unprofessional at DPAC on November 22nd

Posted: October 23, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Comedy, Stand-Up
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)

Durham, NC

November 22, 2013

Comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White is best known as the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking funnyman from the “Blue Collar Comedy” phenomenon. White has always been a classic storyteller. His routines relay tales from his real life, ranging from growing up in a small town in Texas to joining the ranks of some of the most successful comedians in America.

He is a certified platinum-selling artist, having sold over 10 million #1 albums; White has been nominated for two Grammy® Awards, and he has consistently been one of the five top-grossing comedians on tour. White’s three Comedy Central stand-up specials are the three top-rated specials in that network’s history.

White has been featured in the major feature films Horrible Bosses and Sex and the City 2 and has a principal role in Jayne Mansfield’s Car, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2012.

Tickets: 

http://www.ticketmaster.com/venueartist/115558/764591?brand=durham

Amos Lee w/ Special Guest Jessica Lea Mayfield on November 18

Posted: October 22, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Concert, Music
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)

Durham, NC

November 18, 2013

Amos Lee will perform at DPAC on Monday, November 18 with special guest Jessica Lea Mayfield in support of his forthcoming fifth studio album, Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song.

Amos Lee is an American singer-songwriter whose musical style encompasses folk, rock and soul. With his laid-back vocal delivery and acoustic songwriting, Amos draws inspiration from soul music, contemporary jazz and ’70s folk artists like James Taylor.

Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song is the follow-up to Amos’ 2011 album, Mission Bell, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Rock Albums charts and contained the No. 1 A Triple radio hit “Windows Are Rolled Down.” The new studio album, a 12-song collection recorded in Nashville with Jay Joyce, is the first to feature Lee’s longtime touring band comprising Freddie Berman, Zach Djanikian, Andy Keenan and Jaron Olevsky.

Tickets: 

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E004B058D98719B?brand=durham

The Daily Show’s Guest Host John Oliver comes to DPAC on November 9th

Posted: October 10, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Comedy, Stand-Up
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
Durham, NC
November 9, 2013

John Oliver served as host of the Emmy®- and Peabody® Award-winning series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for the eight weeks of original episodes that were scheduled during Jon Stewart’s hiatus.

“Don’t worry, it’s still going to be everything that you love about The Daily Show, just without the thing that you love the most about it,” said Oliver.

John Oliver joined The Daily Show and The Best F#@king News Team Ever in 2006 and since arriving has done everything from interviewing UN Ambassadors to covering the World Cup in South Africa to breaking his nose fighting for the Confederate army. As a writer Oliver has won Emmy® and Writers Guild Awards, and he won the Breakout Award at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. He performs stand-up around the US and his one-hour special Terrifying Times debuted in April 2008. His stand-up series, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show premiered on COMEDY CENTRAL in January 2010 with the fourth season slated to air in late summer. Along with Andy Zaltzman, Oliver also writes and stars in a weekly podcast, “The Bugle: Audio Newspaper for a Visual World.”

Tickets: 

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E004AC4A3FB8366?brand=durham

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd with Special Guest Drake White to Perform at DPAC on November 7th

Posted: October 9, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Concert, Music
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
Durham, NC
November 7, 2013

With album sales of over 30 million worldwide and classic American rock anthems including “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Free Bird”, Lynyrd Skynyrd remains a cultural icon that appeals to multiple generations. Southern rock royalty Lynyrd Skynyrd make their DPAC debut this fall.

Having survived enough tragedy and just plain hard miles for 10 bands, Lynyrd Skynyrd is, remarkably at this stage of their career, on a roll. Led by core members Gary Rossington (guitar), Johnny Van Zant (vocals) and Rickey Medlocke (guitar), Skynyrd’s latest album Last Of A Dyin’ Breed continues to build on the legacy that began over 35 years ago in Jacksonville, Florida. Joining them in the studio and on the road are new bassist Johnny Colt (Black Crowes, Train) guitarist Mark “Sparky” Matejka (a “Nashville cat, just a pickin’ fool,” according to Rossington), and keyboardist Peter Keys, who replaced Powell on the God & Guns tour.

Tickets: 

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E004B1C2D955A0C?brand=durham&camefrom=CFC_DPAC_DPACSKYNYRD

The Piano Guys Play DPAC on November 5th

Posted: October 8, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Concert, Music
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
Durham, NC
November 5, 2013

Hailing from Utah, The Piano Guys became an Internet sensation by way of their immensely successful series of striking self-made music videos; their YouTube channel boasts 1.6 million subscribers. But it’s their highly original blend of classical music with pop that brought them to their major label debut album, The Piano Guys, released on Sony Masterworks in 2012. The album topped Billboard’s New Age and Classical charts. The album features the imaginative mash-up arrangements that The Piano Guys are already famous for, including sources ranging from Michael Jackson to Mozart, The Bourne Identity to David Guetta. It also includes an original song and innovative takes on hits by One Direction, Adele and Christina Perri. The Piano Guys 2is set for release on Sony Masterworks May 7, 2013.

But just who are The Piano Guys? Actually, there’s only one piano player, Jon Schmidt, and one other instrumentalist, Steven Sharp Nelson, on cello, and they have played together for twenty years. Yet the other three – Paul Anderson, Tel Stewart and Al van der Beek – are equally significant members of the group. The inventive cinematography of Stewart and Anderson teams with van der Beek’s studio prowess. The Piano Guys have connected quietly but emotionally with a massive audience.

The spectacular Piano Guys videos, which have so far netted over 222 million YouTube views (and 500,000 new views a day), are essentially divined by Stewart and Anderson. And sure enough, The Piano Guys have over 530,000 Facebook fans who have shared videos like “Michael Meets Mozart.” “Michael Meets Mozart” is on The Piano Guys debut CD, as is “Cello Wars,” the ambitious video which resulted from a six-month production required to realize its Star Wars-inspired light saber/cello bow concept, since rewarded by over 12 million YouTube views.

Tickets: 

http://www.ticketmaster.com/the-piano-guys-durham-north-carolina-11-05-2013/event/0E004AA2975AB810?brand=durham

John Fogerty “Wrote a Song for Everyone” to DPAC November 3rd

Posted: October 7, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Concert, Music
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
Durham, NC
November 3, 2013

John Fogerty’s comes to the Durham Performing Arts Center to promote his new album, Wrote A Song For Everyone. The album is already a certified hit as it entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart at #3, selling 51,319 copies in its first week. This marks the Grammy® Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s highest-debuting album of his career. Wrote A Song For Everyone marks the singer, songwriter and guitarist’s ninth studio solo album since disbanding Creedence Clearwater Revival.

A celebration of Fogerty’s iconic songbook, the album is a collection of 14 songs: 12 classics and deep tracks (Creedence Clearwater Revival and solo material) from his remarkable canon of hits recorded in collaboration with today’s biggest superstars from the country, pop and rock worlds, plus two brand new solo songs including the new single and video “Mystic Highway.” Wrote A Song For Everyone was released by Vanguard Records on May 28,

Tickets: 

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E004ACC8A858678?brand=durham

The Pixies with Special Guests, Cults coming to DPAC in January

Posted: October 7, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Concert, Music
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
Durham, NC
Friday, January 31, 2014

Fortified with eight instantly-sold-out U.S. club shows, a sold-out UK/European tour, and critical and fan acclaim for the live shows and five brand-new songs, Pixies announce that a 33-city, coast-to-coast North American leg has been added to its 2013-2014 world tour and will kick off in Toronto, Canada on January 15, 2014.

Pixies – Black Francis/guitars, vocals, Joey Santiago/guitars, drummer David Lovering, and touring bassist Kim Shattuck – are on the road in support of the band’s first collection of new music in more than 20 years that began with the surprise release of the single “Bagboy” on June 28.   That was followed by the four-track EP-1 that came out of the blue on September 3.  “Andro Queen,” the melancholy, surrealistic sci-fi ballad that opens EP-1, is the project’s brand-new music video, and now available at www.pixiesmusic.com

All of the Pixies dates on this tour will feature a brand new stage set and production, and will give the band an opportunity to not only debut brand new Pixies songs, but to offer the most wide-ranging concert set lists of Pixies music in the band’s career.  As Black Francis told The Daily Beast, “I’m happy that we have new songs to play because playing only the old songs…you’ve already proven that.  You can try to do it better, but you’re not really proving anything to anyone except that you can still do it.”

 “The Pixies brought just enough to the Bowery stage to remind devoted fans that their songwriting chops have hardly wavered and that the best may be yet to come.” – Village Voice

Tickets: On Sale Soon

 

John Legend – October 31, 2013 at DPAC

Posted: October 4, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Concert, Music
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Love in the Future
in stores now

with special guest Tamar Braxton

Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
Durham, NC
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Doors Open at 7:00pm

Halloween is all treats this year when nine-time Grammy® winner John Legend makes his much anticipated return to DPAC on October 31. This stop is part of his North American “Made to Love” tour in support of his album Love in the Future.

Tickets:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E004AF788D06A07?brand=durham

Return of the Legends – October 18-19, 2013 at DPAC

Posted: October 3, 2013 by MichaelSmithNC in All, Concert, Music
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Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
Durham, NC
Friday and Saturday, October 18-19, 2013
Doors Open at 7:00pm

October 18:
Rakim
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Lords of the Underground
Nice and Smooth
Camp Lo

October 19
Bell Biv Devoe
EPMD
Brand Nubian
Pharcyde
Das EFX

Hosted by 9th Wonder! Concerts begin at 8:00pm with after-parties starting at 11:00pm. Presented in partnership with The Dome Group, Inc. and Major Mint Marketing.

Tickets:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/cnfmnh?brand=durham&camefrom=CFC_DPAC_ROTL
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