Sunday, December 3, 2023
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
$55 Premium Seating
$45 Preferred Reserved Seating
$35 Advance General Admission // $45 At The Door
Ticket purchases are final and non-refundable
"NRBQ are that rare group that’s eclectic, stylistically innovative, and creatively ambitious while also sounding thoroughly unpretentious and accessible. At its best, NRBQ‘s music casually mixes up barrelhouse R&B, British Invasion pop, fourth-gear rockabilly, exploratory free jazz, and dozens of other flavors while giving it all a stomp-down rhythm that makes fans want to dance and expressing a sense of joy and easy good humor that comes straight from the heart."
NRBQ is Terry Adams, Scott Ligon, Casey McDonough, and John Perrin.
NRBQ, which stands for New Rhythm and Blues Quartet, has often been called a national treasure, which may be why the band’s music has attracted legions of devoted fans worldwide, including Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Costello, Penn & Teller, Doc Pomus, R.E.M., SpongeBob SquarePants, Michael J. Pollard, Ian McLagan, Steve Earle, Drew Carey, and Nick Lowe, among many others. NRBQ songs have inspired cover versions by Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos, Darlene Love, Dave Edmunds, She & Him, Widespread Panic, Yo La Tengo, and more.
The group served as the unofficial "house band" for The Simpsons for Seasons 10-12. They appeared as zombies in George Romero’s movie Day of the Dead. They have appeared at the Berlin Jazz Festival, the Grand Ole Opry, and Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival. In their 50+ year career, NRBQ has released almost as many albums, including a series of critically acclaimed titles in the past decade, among them Keep This Love Goin’ (2011), Brass Tacks (2014), and the 5-disc, 50-year retrospective, High Noon (2016). Of the most recent studio album Dragnet, released at the end of 2021, Bill Bentley in Americana Highways says, “They play with such startling and powerful simplicity, a style that must be earned and not learned,” while Uncut says, “[it’s] as though the history of 20th-century popular and unpopular music has gone through thorough, playful distillation.”
"If I had a dime for every time the words ‘great national treasure’ occurred in any written account of NRBQ, I would be a very wealthy man...” —Dave DiMartino
“One of the world’s greatest bands ... an AMERICAN TREASURE.” —Entertainment Weekly “NRBQ has been one of America’s national treasures for more than 30 years.” —Ink 19
"Great music knows no boundaries, and no band is better proof than the Q. *High Noon* does a stellar job of bringing that joy into your living room and your life." —David Sokol, Stereophile, Five stars!
“They are a national treasure and you owe it to yourself to listen and experience the Q.” —Hal Willner “NRBQ, bluntly one of American Music's treasures...” —Vinyl District
“It sounds like hyperbole to say NRBQ is one of the great bands of the rock-and-roll era and a national treasure. But this set [High Noon] proves it, providing more than six hours of brilliance.” —Vintage Guitar
“More than a half-century in, NRBQ remains one of America's unappreciated cultural treasures." —Aquarian Weekly