David Bromberg Big Band w/ special guest Loudon Wainwright III

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Hasan Minhaj @ Boch Center

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Fri Dec 8th - 7:00PM Doors Open - 6:00 PM

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Fri Dec 8th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Mike Birbiglia Live: Christmas Parmesan

Fri Dec 15th - 7:00PM Doors Open - 6:00 PM

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Ride with Benito Skinner & Mary Beth Barone

Fri Dec 15th - 9:45PM Doors Open - 8:45 PM

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Bob Marley Comedian

Thu Dec 28th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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An Evening with Matty in the Morning

Thu Jan 4th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Direct from Sweden: The Music of Abba

Sat Jan 6th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Bassem Youssef

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Sun Jan 7th - 6:00PM Doors Open - 5:00 PM

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“All You Need Is Love” : All-Star Celebration of The Fab Four’s Arrival in America

Tue Jan 9th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Pillows and Beer Live with Craig Conover and Austen Kroll

Thu Jan 11th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Fri Jan 12th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Vir Das: Mind Fool Tour

Sat Jan 13th - 7:00PM Doors Open - 6:00 PM

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Ralph Barbosa: The Super Cool Ass Tour

Thu Jan 18th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Jay Pharoah

Fri Jan 19th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Christopher Titus: Carrying Monsters Tour

Sat Jan 20th - 7:00PM Doors Open - 6:00 PM

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Ashley Gavin

Fri Jan 26th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Ari Shaffir: The Wrong Side of History Tour

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Jessica Kirson

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Dara Ó Briain: So… Where Were We?

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Maz Jobrani: Mr. International Comedy Tour

Fri Feb 9th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Brittany Howard: What Now Tour

Mon Feb 12th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Tim Dillon: American Royalty

Wed Feb 14th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Dan Soder

Sat Feb 17th - 7:00PM Doors Open - 6:00 PM

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Wed Mar 6th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Sat Mar 9th - 7:00PM Doors Open - 6:00 PM

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Ledisi: The Good Life Tour

Tue Mar 12th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Sun Mar 17th - 7:00PM Doors Open - 6:00 PM

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Sasha Colby: Stripped Tour

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Wed Mar 20th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Thu Mar 21st - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Fri Mar 22nd - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (Wang Theatre)

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Sat Mar 23rd - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Adam Ant: ANTMUSIC 2024 with Special Guest The English Beat

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Fri Apr 12th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Thu Apr 25th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Fri Apr 26th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Buddy Guy: Damn Right Farewell

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Mon May 6th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Fri May 10th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Fri May 17th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Robyn Schall

Sat May 18th - 7:00PM Doors Open - 6:00 PM

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Jeff Arcuri

Wed May 29th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Desi Banks: The Purpose Chaser Tour

Sat Jun 1st - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Mr. Joe Jackson Presents: Joe Jackson Solo & The Music of Max Champion

Tue Jun 4th - 8:00PM Doors Open - 7:00 PM

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Fri Jun 7th - 7:30PM Doors Open - 6:30 PM

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Bio

ABOUT DAVID BROMBERG: For Americana godfather David Bromberg, it all began with the blues. His incredible journey spans five-and-a-half decades, and

ABOUT DAVID BROMBERG:

For Americana godfather David Bromberg, it all began with the blues.

His incredible journey spans five-and-a-half decades, and includes – but is not limited to – adventures with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, and music and life lessons from seminal blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis, who claimed the young Bromberg as a son. A musician’s musician, Bromberg’s mastery of several stringed instruments (guitar, fiddle, Dobro, mandolin), and multiple styles is legendary, leading Dr. John to declare him an American icon. In producing John Hartford’s hugely influential Aereo-Plain LP, Bromberg even co-invented a genre: Newgrass.

Add in a period of self-imposed exile from his passion (1980-2002), during which he became a renowned violin expert, and Wilmington, Delaware’s cultural ambassador; top that off with a triumphant return to music-making, and you have an amazing tale leading back to one place: the blues.

Now, with The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues, his first release for Red House Records, Bromberg and multi-Grammy-winning producer/accompanist Larry Campbell (Dylan, Levon Helm, Paul Simon) focus on the music David discovered in high school, when, circa late 50s, he was introduced to a friend’s dad’s collection of blues 78s. He’d only just taken up guitar as a means to pass the time while in bed with the measles.

“I loved those 78s so much,” says David, “I taped them on a portable reel-to-reel, so I could listen at home and learn.”

That love is evident in The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues. The album is both blues primer and an opportunity to witness a master embracing this distinctly American music with passion and grace.

“There’s a lot of different types of blues on there,” Bromberg notes. “We decided to start it off with a dyed-in-the-wool blues [Robert Johnson’s “Walkin’ Blues”], but there’s also country blues [“Kentucky Blues”], and gospel-influenced blues [“Yield Not”].”

Bromberg, a onetime sideman himself, is quick to give props to his long-running road-and-studio cohorts: Butch Amiot (bass), Josh Kanusky (drums), Mark Cosgrove (guitar), Nate Grower (fiddle), and Peter Ecklund (cornet). Of producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, fellow Reverend Gary Davis acolyte, and old friend Larry Campbell, he says, “To use a baseball analogy, Larry is like a star at any position in the infield, because he can play them all.”

Since meeting in the early 80’s, Campbell and Bromberg had crossed paths many times. They finally worked together in Levon Helm’s studio for David’s 2013 return-to-form Only Slightly Mad. “He wanted to do a Chicago blues album then,” Larry says. “But we decided to remind folks of what he does better than anyone: the whole gamut of Americana, the full Brombergian. And we got some new fans. For this one, we went back to the blues, and made use of David’s great vocabulary in all veins of the genre.”

Bromberg’s guitar work remains a marvel; amped electric lead – both slide and fretted – and delicately powerful acoustic fingerpicking propel these songs with the same force that made him the go-to guy for acts ranging from the Eagles to Link Wray to Phoebe Snow. This is a man who can go full-on Chicago gutbucket with “You Don’t Have to Go” (a Bromberg original), then slay with the jazz inflections of Ray Charles’ “A Fool for You,” rendered here intimately solo. Although Bromberg points out he’s not the same guitarist he was before his two decades away from performing and recording. “I play differently,” he says. “I can’t play as fast, but playing slower gives me more time to think about what I’m doing.”

“He’s always able to plug into the emotion of a song,” Campbell says. “He’s incredibly inventive as a player. Sometimes restrictions can be good.”

Listeners can actually hear what the years have given Bromberg in the spartan, acoustic “Delia.” Bromberg originally covered this traditional nugget on his 1972 self-titled debut – a live, solo rendition with a spoken-word break. The new version features Campbell and Bromberg in the studio, revisiting Bromberg’s live arrangement from their occasional duo tours. It is mesmerizing, with gravitas only experience can bring. “Larry and I have played ‘Delia’ a lot,” Bromberg says. “I love what he does on it.”

Longtime fans will notice another difference: Bromberg’s voice; he’s really singing. The vocals cover a broad range: impassioned, vibrato-laden testifying; pew-jumping soul shouts; soft, confident, crooning; and, of course, his peerless raconteur chops (particularly in “You Been A Good Old Wagon”).

“When I first started,” Bromberg says, “singing was something I did between guitar solos. But during the period I did so little performing, I took some voice lessons, and now, I know more what I’m doing. I love singing now. Love it.”

Larry Campbell was impressed at the newfound vocal chops, too. “He is a better vocalist than ever,” he says. “He’s strong, and present. None of the songs took more than three takes. And he was able to take the old folk song ‘900 Miles’ [a “railroad song” made famous by Odetta and Woody Guthrie], and turn it into an electric blues that’s a real high point of the album for me.”

Although he remains the proprietor of the beloved David Bromberg Fine Violins in Wilmington, Delaware – “I love my shop,” he says – Bromberg makes time to tour with his quintet, and he’s already included every song in his live repertoire (save “Yield Not,” which requires a choir), from The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues. As ever, he brings his characteristic devotional intensity to the music, invigorating his surprise third act with the same passion he felt as a teen, spinning those blues 78s, just before the road called.

ABOUT LOUDON WAINWRIGHT:

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2010 GRAMMY Winner (Best Traditional Folk Album) for High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (Two previous GRAMMY nominations: I’m Alright, 1985 and More Love Songs, 1986).

Best Album of 2009: High Wide & Handsome per NPR’s Ken Tucker (Fresh Air & Entertainment Weekly magazine).

High Wide & Handsome named among the year’s best per Village Voice, No Depression, FolkWax and fRoots.

“Mr. Wainwright has proved to be far and away the most candid diarist among the singer-songwriters who… brought confessional poetry into popular song… Mr. Wainwright wrings more human truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation.” – New York Times, Stephen Holden

Songs covered by Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Earl Scruggs, Mose Allison, Big Star, Freakwater, Norma Waterson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright.

Film acting credits include: Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up (for which he also recorded the soundtrack) and The 40 Year Old Virgin; Christopher Guest’s For Your Consideration; Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown; Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator; Tim Burton’s Big Fish; 28 Days alongside Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen and Steve Buscemi; Jacknife alongside Robert De Niro and Ed Harris; Neil Simon’s The Slugger’s Wife.

Television acting credits include: Parks and Recreation (w/ Amy Poehler); Undeclared (w/ Seth Rogen & writer/producer Judd Apatow); Grounded for Life; Ally McBeal; The T.V. Show (w/ Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Billy Crystal) where he played keyboard with the early Spinal Tap, which made it’s first appearance on this program; a recurring role on M*A*S*H and a role as the original musician/sidekick on The David Letterman Show.

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