Jerry Douglas Band with John Oates and Maura O'Connell: A Very Jerry Christmas Show
HighLine Ballroom (New York City, NY)
Highline Ballroom hosts A Very Jerry Christmas Show, featuring dobro legend Jerry Douglas and his band. The twelve-time Grammy winner is one of the leading musicians in the bluegrass world. He'll be joined by his band, plus Hall and Oates' John Oates and Irish-American folk singer Maura O'Connell.
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The last date listed for Jerry Douglas Band with John Oates and Maura O'Connell: A Very Jerry Christmas Show was Saturday December 12, 2009 / 8:00pm (Doors Open at 6:00pm). (view all dates)
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Jerry Douglas started his professional career when he was sixteen, the son of a steelworker, living in Warren, Ohio, and playing his instrument of choice, the Dobro, in bars. He has absorbed the sights and sounds around him and transmuted them into his own unique art by developing an eclectic style of playing and composing for the Dobro and other subspecies of resonator and slide guitars.
His most clearly audible source is bluegrass—the genre in which he started and over which, if you ask me, he now presides. He has also conscripted and deployed: jazz, with its imperative to improvise; the raw emotion and twang of country music; the plaintive ragas of Indian sitars; Native American modal melodies; the sonata-allegro structures of classical music; Hawaiian music, with its sunny harmonies and marine swells; the note-packed virtuosities of Celtic tunes; woebegone New Orleans funeral marches; Dixieland’s brassiness; gospel; and the blues. In a word or three, just about everything.
You will also find folded into Douglas’s music a great many other ingredients, among them rain, children’s games, rivers, and a large amount of weeping—to say nothing of hogs, the war in Iraq, locomotives, confetti, bourbon, machine guns, and the entire cosmos.
HighLine Ballroom
The HighLine Ballroom is a performance space inspired by High Line Park, located in the meat packing district on 16th Street (between 9th & 10th Aves). Highline Ballroom is committed to bringing music fans intimate performances by a diverse
group of artists. They offer full menus of exceptional food for standing and seated shows.