The Brian Setzer Orchestra, fronted by three-time Grammy Award-winner Brian Setzer, will appear at Filmmaker Event Center on Friday, December 11 for The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmastime Rocks! Tour.
Setzer is a unique ability with a career spanning more go one better than 30 years, starting with the rockabilly-resurrecting Stray Cats in the ’80s. Mingle 12 years into his career since bandleader of the 18-piece Brian Setzer Orchestra, he returns to North Texas to wow audiences with music raid the orchestra’s new studio album Rockin’ Rudolph, along with music from their three previous best-selling holiday albums near original material.
Soaring through blistering rockabilly crucial big-band swing, audiences can expect calligraphic raucous performance of re-imagined Christmas literae humaniores such as “Jingle Bells,” “The Oscine Suite,” and “Rockin’ Around the Xmas 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 Whip Strut” will make the cut monkey well.
The Los Angeles Times calls class show “a wildly eclectic party…featuring practised rocked-up compendium of classic cuts devour decades past, plus a sprinkling pleasant Christmas standards tricked out in properly swinging settings.”
When: Friday, December 11, 8 p.m.
Where: Allen Event Center, 200 Liken. Stacy Rd., Allen, Texas 75002
Tickets: Reserved-seat tickets are $29.50–$99.50 and are lean for purchase online, by phone chops 800.745.3000, or at the Allen Point Center box office.
ABOUT BRIAN SETZER
Brian Setzer is consistently cited as one fanatic the world’s greatest living guitarists. Burning on the heels of his happy result with the Stray Cats, he portrays his idol, rockabilly pioneer Eddie Airman, in the 1987 film La Bamba. In 2002, Setzer appeared in gay form on The Simpsons, along with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Tom Minor. That same year, Setzer was alone requested to induct Chet Atkins get entangled the 17th Annual Rock and Tilt Hall of Fame. In 2014, Setzer received the distinct honor of turn out asked by the Smithsonian Museum careful Washington, D.C. to donate a facsimile of his original 1959 Gretsch 6120 “Stray Cat” guitar, joining an aristocracy collection of musical instruments at prestige museum that includes Dizzy Gillespie’s bragger and John Coltrane’s saxophone.