Harry Connick, Jr.
7 Mar 08, FriTheatre
My New Orleans Tour
USA
"Oh, My NOLA feels at once like a party-driven celebration of all that is New Orleans and a love letter to the city he almost lost." - All Music Guide
Kick-starting Mosaic Music Festival 2008 with impressive jazz-rooted piano workouts, impassioned vocals and big-band blasts from his latest album Oh, My NOLA (My New Orleans) is Harry Connick Jr. This multi-talented superstar with album sales of over 25 million, three Grammy® awards, an Emmy and Tony nominations is revered around the world as a brilliant performer who is unique in the world of contemporary entertainment.
The Crescent City native traces New Orleans' prodigious musical legacy with covers and originals that touch on almost every musical style that has come from the city. For that reason, Oh, My NOLA is his most expansive and personal album to date. It sees the pianist/ vocalist/ arranger coalescing his eclectic tastes in jazz standards, stride piano, funk, Cajun, gospel and contemporary pop under a unified vision that takes him back to the roots of New Orleans music.
In this concert, celebrate, with Harry Connick Jr. and his band, the colour, vibrance, idiosyncrasies and heart of his beloved New Orleans where the music culture is second to none! Hear him put a New Orleans groove on Jambalaya, swing Careless Love big-band-style, pay rambunctious tribute to his Uncle Ray with Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey and to Louis Armstrong with Hello Dolly, serenade us with We Make a Lot of Love, look forward to the future with Yes, We Can, reprise vintage R&B with Working in a Coal Mine, and roll out a rollicking Basin Street Blues, among others tweaked to evoke the Big Easy.
Theatre
8pm (90mins, no intermission)
$88* (SOLD OUT), $128 (SOLD OUT), $168 (SOLD OUT), $208 (SOLD OUT), $248
Limited concessions for students, NSF and senior citizens: $60*