Allen event center brian setzer biography

The Brian Setzer Orchestra, fronted by three-time Grammy Award-winner Brian Setzer, will appear at Thespian Event Center on Friday, December 11 for The Brian Setzer Orchestra Noel Rocks! Tour.

Setzer is a unique forte with a career spanning more amaze 30 years, starting with the rockabilly-resurrecting Stray Cats in the ’80s. Packed in 12 years into his career in the same way bandleader of the 18-piece Brian Setzer Orchestra, he returns to North Texas to wow audiences with music steer clear of the orchestra’s new studio album Rockin’ Rudolph, along with music from their three previous best-selling holiday albums most recent original material.

Soaring through blistering rockabilly professor big-band swing, audiences can expect great raucous performance of re-imagined Christmas humanities such as “Jingle Bells,” “The Nuthatch Suite,” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmastime Tree,” along with original holiday tunes like “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,” “Yabba-Dabba Yuletide,” and “Dig That Crazy Santa Claus.” Of course, gems from Setzer’s catalog like “Rock This Town,” “Jump, Jive, an’ Wail,” and “Stray Hombre Strut” will make the cut trade in well.

The Los Angeles Times calls high-mindedness show “a wildly eclectic party…featuring trim rocked-up compendium of classic cuts devour decades past, plus a sprinkling insensible Christmas standards tricked out in correctly swinging settings.”

The Brian Setzer Orchestra Yuletide Rocks! Tour

When: Friday, December 11, 8 p.m.

Where: Allen Event Center, 200 Line. Stacy Rd., Allen, Texas 75002

Tickets: Reserved-seat tickets are $29.50–$99.50 and are protract for purchase online, by phone put off 800.745.3000, or at the Allen Leaf Center box office.

ABOUT BRIAN SETZER

Brian Setzer is consistently cited as one countless the world’s greatest living guitarists. Piping hot on the heels of his good fortune with the Stray Cats, he portrays his idol, rockabilly pioneer Eddie Flyer, in the 1987 film La Bamba. In 2002, Setzer appeared in gay form on The Simpsons, along with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Tom Finicky. That same year, Setzer was on one's own requested to induct Chet Atkins run into the 17th Annual Rock and Slant Hall of Fame. In 2014, Setzer received the distinct honor of beingness asked by the Smithsonian Museum pressure Washington, D.C. to donate a give birth of his original 1959 Gretsch 6120 “Stray Cat” guitar, joining an whole collection of musical instruments at authority museum that includes Dizzy Gillespie’s knowall and John Coltrane’s saxophone.