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3 Faces of the King
Saturday, April 21, 2018 7:30 pm
Tickets: $67, $52, $42, $37, $27
3 Faces of the King follows the most significant entertainer of all time through his most important musical eras.
The show opens in the early years of Elvis doing Rockabilly with the moves that scared the conservative nation. He jumped, wiggled and danced all over the stage…The nation could not believe what they saw. When he was on Ed Sullivan, they would only show him from the waist up as a conservative nation thought the moves to be risqué. The young people did not agree and Elvis Presley started a whole new genre of music
Elvis wanted to make movies. He talked the colonel, his manager into getting him movies. Except for a very few films, Elvis was not happy with the movies he was given..He wanted some serious films, but all the studio wanted to do is sell tickets, and having Elvis singing would do just that. However, after finishing one of his better films, King Creole, he was drafted into the United States Army. Elvis missed the excitement of live shows and was worried as to how people would still like his singing career.
The second phase of the show has Elvis, now a little older, taking a chance to do a television special originally called the Singer Special(singer sewing machines sponsored) and became known as the comeback special…It proved that Elvis had not lost it and the public still loved him. Elvis was back.
Following this, we move into the Vegas Years..It was the end of the 60’s and Elvis proved that he still had it in him..We create the excitement of the years in Las Vegas at the International Hotel.
The show is proud to welcome the AMBASSADOR BAND and the TCB HORNS along with the SWEET INSPIRATIONS and members of the STAMPS QUARTET. Tickets
Veterans of Comedy
Bruce BruceNephew Tommy
Jeremiah JJ Williamson Saturday April 28, 2018 8:00 pm Tickets: $89.50, $72.50, $68.50, $59.50 Davis Entertainment & Gentlemen Jack presents Veterans of Comedy Saturday April 28th (8:00 pm) at the Montgomery Performance Art Centre featuring some of legends of comedy Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show, Straight out of Mississippi Comedian JJ and ATL Boss Bruce Bruce. Tickets
Jason Isbell andThe 400 Unit with Special Guest Richard Thompson Sunday, May 6 8:00 pm Tickets: $58, $43.50, $30.50 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s new album, The Nashville Sound, is a beautiful piece of American music-making, but watch yourself: it will light a fire under your ass. "You’re still breathing, it’s not too late," Jason sings.
This album is a call, and the songs on it send sparks flying into a culture that’s already running so hot the needle on the temperature gauge is bouncing erratically in the red. And while it’s understandable that, in this moment, some people want their radio to help them drift away, this finely calibrated set of ten songs is aimed right between the clear eyes of people who prefer to stay present and awake. It’s a call to those who won't cower no matter how erratically the world turns, and who aren’t afraid of what looks back when they look in the mirror. Bruce Springsteen did that. Neil Young did that. Jason Isbell does that. There are songs on this album that cut to the chase. "Last year was a son of a bitch for nearly everyone we know," Isbell sings on the album’s first single, "Hope the High Road." "But I ain’t fighting with you down in the ditch. I’ll meet you up here on the road." As singular as that lyric is, there’s nothing coy or obtuse about it. Meanwhile, other songs here take a subtler tack.
Check out track three, "Tupelo." It plays like a warm ode to Northeast Mississippi—on the first few listens, it sure sounds like a loving tribute—but on the fourth you realize that the town the protagonist is extolling is actually a blazing hellhole. Perfect—as a hideout, anyway. "You get about a week of spring and the summer is blistering," Isbell sings. "There ain’t no one from here who will follow me there." It’s the kind of twist that compels the fifth listen—and the fiftieth. As with Isbell’s 2013 breakthrough, Southeastern, and his double-Grammy-winning follow up, 2015’s Something More Than Free, The Nashville Sound was produced by Dave Cobb. Isbell says that he and Cobb created a simple litmus test for the decisions they made in the two weeks they spent at RCA Studios (which was known as "The home of the Nashville Sound" back in the ’60’s and ’70s): they only made sonic moves that their heroes from back in the day could’ve made, but simply never did. It’s a shrewd approach—an honest way to keep the wiz-bang of modern recording technology at arms length, while also leaving the old bag of retro rock ’n’ roll tricks un-rummaged. Lyrically, The Nashville Sound is timely. Musically, it is timeless.
It’s also worth noting that this album isn’t credited to Isbell alone. For the first time since 2011’s Here We Rest, Isbell’s band, the 400 Unit, gets title billing. "Even when I was writing, I could always hear the band’s stamp on the finished product," Jason says. "These songs needed more collaboration on the arrangements to make them work, and I felt like the band deserved it after the way they played." Given Cobb’s strict insistence on cutting songs live with no demos or rehearsals, you can easily imagine how the brilliantly raw performances on the record will translate to the stage when the band takes these new songs out on the road. And boy, there’s nothing like a 400 Unit show. Not just because the band smokes, but also because Isbell’s fans are among music’s most ardent. They listen to these songs for months and months on their own, and that momentum rolls them right up to the doors at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, or the Beacon Theatre in New York or the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta. And when the band kicks in, they are ecstatic. It’s a rock ’n’ roll show that feels like fellowship. Which begs a question: Why do Jason’s songs strike us so deeply? What makes this music of the soul? The answer has to do with Jason’s authenticity, his intellect, his rootedness in both tradition (see: the childhood in Green Hill, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals, where he grew up picking and singing in the style he remembers here on "Something To Love") as well as modernity (see: Jason singing about anxiety, or his complicated relationship to his iPhone). Simply put, Jason has a gift for taking big, messy human experiences and compressing them into badass little combustible packages made of rhythm, melody and madly efficient language. The songs are full of little hooks—it could be guitar line that catches one listener, or a quick lyric that strikes to the heart of another—and an act of transference takes place. The stories Jason tells become our own. The music is coming not from Jason and the band, but from within us. As you listen to this record, you will hear many themes: humor, heartache, wisdom, beauty, hope. But chief among them, strangely, is leadership. If Southeastern (2013) was the Getting Sober record (Jason has been searingly honest in both songs and interviews about the time he spent in rehab), and Something More Than Free (2015) was the New Clarity record, maybe this one, The Nashville Sound, is the Way Forward.
And who better to lead us forward than Jason Isbell? Jason is a relentless and fearless selfinterrogator. (The first line of "Cumberland Gap"—"There’s an answer here if I look hard enough"—will be familiar to those who know him.) And this album is a challenge, a gauntlet in song: Let’s claim ownership of our biases ("White Man’s World"). Let’s embrace and celebrate the uncomfortable idea that the force that activates both life and love is death (the instantclassic "If We Were Vampires"). Let’s consciously choose light over darkness ("Hope the High Road"). And for God’s sake, if you are feeling anxious, alone, disenfranchised, depressed, mad as hell, or scared as shit, find something that gasses you up and work at it ("Something to Love"). Jason, it seems, after years grinding the rail that separates terra firma from the brink, has put in the sweat equity it takes to hug it out with his demons and fill his life with meaning, bright and clean. If that sounds good to you, this album lights the path. Tickets
Three Dog Night
Friday, May 11 8:00 pm
Tickets: $92, $62, $47, $37
Legendary music icons, THREE DOG NIGHT, are celebrating nearly 5 decades of hits! Their songs wind through the fabric of pop culture today, whether on the radio where they are heard day in and day out, in TV commercials or in major motion pictures — songs like "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)", "Joy to the World", "Black and White", "Shambala" and "One" serve to heighten our emotions and crystallize THREE DOG NIGHT’s continuing popularity.
Boasting chart and sales records that are virtually unmatched in popular music, THREE DOG NIGHT had 21 consecutive Top 40 hits, including 3 #1 singles, 11 Top 10’s, 18 straight Top 20’s, 7 million-selling singles and 12 straight RIAA Certified Gold LPs. Tens of millions of THREE DOG NIGHT records have been sold through the years. Since 1986, they have performed over 2,200 shows including two Super Bowls. Tickets
Delbert McClinton with special guest King Bee
Saturday, May 12, 2018 8:00 pm
Tickets: $37, $32, $27, $23
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love Delbert McClinton and those who haven’t heard him yet. Delbert is always working on that second group.The multi-Grammy Award winning artist is at the top of his game with his 19th studio album, Prick Of The Litter (Hot Shot Records/Thirty Tigers). The new offering captures the balance of soulful energy and restraint that the legendary performer has been delivering in his live performances for decades all over the world. On Prick of the Litter, Delbert incorporates a variety of styles, and as always, just enough to keep him comfortably outside the traditional marketing categories.
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Clint Black
Friday, June 1, 2018 8:00 pm
Tickets: $67, $57, $42, $27, $17
It is one of the most storied careers in modern music. Clint Black surged to superstardom as part of the fabled Class of '89, reaching #1 with five consecutive singles from his triple-platinum debut, Killin' Time. He followed that with the triple-platinum Put Yourself in My Shoes, and then a string of platinum and gold albums throughout the '90s. Perhaps most impressively, Clint wrote or co-wrote every one of his more than three dozen chart hits, including "A Better Man," "Where Are You Now," "When My Ship Comes In," "A Good Run of Bad Luck," "Summer's Comin'," "Like the Rain"and "Nothin' But the Taillights,"part of a catalog that produced 22 #1 singles and made him one of the most successful singer/songwriters of the modern era. Along the way, Clint has sold over 20 million records, earned more than a dozen gold and platinum awards in the U.S. and Canada, landed nearly two dozen major awards and nominations, including more than a dozen GRAMMY nominations, and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Eddie B.Teachers Only Comedy Tour
Saturday, June 2, 2018 8:00 pm
Tickets: $65, $45, $35, $25
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Happy Together Tour 2018
The Turtles featuring Flo and EddieChuck Negron formerly of Three Dog Night
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
The Association
Mark Lindsay former Lead Singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders
The Cowsills Saturday, June 9, 2018 7:30 pm Tickets: $85, $75, $55, $45, $35 Music fans have been enjoying the hits of the sixties and seventies since the Summer of Love and beyond. They get to relive those moments on the renowned Happy Together Tour 2018, which is going on its 9th consecutive year. This summer, the Happy Together Tour returns with six headline artists who delivered the biggest hits of the era: The Turtles, Chuck Negron, formerly of Three Dog Night, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Association, Mark Lindsay, former Lead Singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders and The Cowsills.
The Turtles continue to be the signature headliners of the Happy Together Tour. As always, founding member and singer Mark Volman will bring his infamous antics to the stage, however, for medical reasons, this summer the voice of The Archies, Ron Dante will stand in for singer Howard Kaylan. Dante’s youthful sound is best known on hits such as "Sugar, Sugar" and "Jingle Jangle," which makes him the perfect understudy for the The Turtles’ chart stoppers.
The Turtles have sold over 40 million records worldwide. Their hits include: "Happy Together" "She’d Rather Be With Me," "Elenore," "It Ain’t Me Babe", "You Showed Me" and many more.
Chuck Negron, formerly of Three Dog Night, is back on the Happy Together Tour due to popular demand! He brings Three Dog Night’s biggest hits to the stage, including "Joy To The World," "Mama Told Me Not To Come," "Shambala," "One", "Easy To Be Hard" among others.
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap is thrilled to be on the Happy Together Tour again. Gary’s trademark voice will be belting out his hits one more time. Fans will affectionately remember "Young Girl," "Over You" "Woman, Woman", "This Girl Is A Woman Now", "Lady Willpower", "Don’t Give In To Him" and more.
The Association is one of the most popular and successful bands to have come out of the sixties. They have sold millions of records, and have seven Grammy Award nominations. They are best known from their number one hits, "Never My Love," "Windy", "Cherish," as well as "Along Comes Mary" and "Everything That Touches You"
Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders made his mark with "Kicks," "Hungry," "Him Or Me (What’s It Gonna Be?)," "Steppin’ Out," "Good Thing," "Indian Reservation," "Arizona" and many others. Mark Lindsay was the co-founder and lead singer of this seminal act from its inception in 1963 through 1975. His voice is heard on all of the Raiders’ 16 Top 20 Hits.
The Cowsills have been dazzling crowds the last three years on the Happy Together Tour with their effervescent brand of contagious pop magic. Bob, Paul and Susan Cowsill are a family singing group and the original inspiration for television’s, The Partridge Family. Best known for songs "The Rain, The Park and Other Things," "Hair," "Indian Lake" and "Love American Style." The Cowsills appeared on numerous TV shows including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The Happy Together Tour began in 1984 with mainstays The Turtles. It started up again in 2010 with 2018 being its 9th consecutive year. The overwhelming response and love for the music has endured and The Happy Together Tour 2018 brings that magic back to fans, night after night! Tickets
Black Jacket Symphony
Presents AC/DC Back In Black
Saturday, September 8, 2018 8:00 pm
Tickets: $30, $25Tickets on sale to MPAC Members April 18; on sale to public April 20 The Black Jacket Symphony offers a unique concert experience by recreating classic albums in a live performance setting with a first class lighting and video production. A selected album is performed in its entirety by a group of hand-picked musicians specifically selected for each album. With no sonic detail being overlooked, the musicians do whatever it takes to musically reproduce the album. Following the album and a brief intermission, the Black Jacket Symphony returns to the stage to perform a collection of greatest hits by the evening's artist. Tickets
Don Felder Formerly of the Eagles
Don Felder is renowned as a former lead guitarist of The Eagles, one of the most popular and influential rock groups of our time.
Saturday, October 27, 2018 7:30 pm
Tickets: $52.50, $42.50, $32.50, $23.50On sale to MPAC Members April 17; on sale to public April 20 Putting all the tumult and glory he’d experienced to that point into perspective gave new urgency to the creation of Road to Forever – only Felder’s second solo effort in a storied, four-decade-plus sojourn through rock history. Road to Forever represents the culmination of a personal journey of introspection that Felder began over ten years ago. In 2001, he suffered an emotionally-devastating double blow – separating acrimoniously from The Eagles for the last time while facing the end of his first marriage, which had lasted 29 years and produced four children.
“Every identity I’d been attached to – musician, husband, and father – was being taken away,” he says. To heal, Felder began writing down as many memories as he could, putting his past in perspective. Finding these musings compelling, Felder was inspired to write a book, and connected with legendary Hollywood deal-maker Michael Ovitz to set it up. “Two weeks later, I went to New York with a three-page synopsis, and received four offers from publishers,” Felder says. “Now I was forced to reflect on my life.” That introspection inspired him to “write out the stories of my life as songs. After I collected myself, I found I needed to go out and play music again, and that’s how I began recording the upcoming album. Tickets