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Grayson Currin ·
4 Jan 2010, 9:46 AM ·
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Oh, oh, Wilco
The Chicago six-piece Wilco will perform a concert we’re hoping they call Wilco (The Show) Saturday, March 27, at 8 p.m., at Durham Performing Arts Center. The $35 tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 8, at 10 a.m. The show, Wilco’s first performance in the Triangle since a stop at the much-larger Koka Booth Amphitheatre in 2008, is not only a major booking score for the starting-to-look-a-lot-less-like-Branson DPAC, but it also represents a promising level of teamwork between regional concert promoters: Cat’s Cradle is co-presenting the show.
“With the help of legendary club promoter Frank Heath of Cat’s Cradle, Wilco is coming to the intimate and acoustically great setting of DPAC,” said DPAC GM Bob Klaus in a press release. “We’re excited to host this very special American band and again have the chance for audiences to discover what makes DPAC one of the best places for concerts in America.”
Before you go shooting your Wilcowad, though, keep in mind that the second installment of Knoxville’s excellent Big Ears Festival brings Joanna Newsom, Terry Riley, Andrew W.K., DJ/rupture, The Ex and (gross) Vampire Weekend to the state to the west the same weekend. Hmm: Being there, or here? And with that unnecessary pun, goodbye.
Live Actions: New Bills DPAC, Wilco
Grayson Currin ·
2 Dec 2009, 12:03 PM ·
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More than a decade ago, but—see?—young.
Durham Performing Arts Center announced this morning that British singer-songwriter David Gray will perform at DPAC Friday, April 9. Tickets ($25-$60) go on sale next Friday, Dec. 11, but, more important than the show itself, is Gray’s youth, at least relative to many of the other musical acts booked in the city’s 2,700-seat theater. Since opening in December, the core of DPAC’s musical bookings has been a stable of aged heroes and icons—B.B. King, Roger Daltrey, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Willie Nelson. There have been exceptions of note (Ben Folds, Maxwell, Indie. Arie), but Gray’s youth and my suspicion that Gray, who’s slipped well out of the mainstream since his stateside hit “Babylon,” from 1999’s excellent White Ladder, won’t fill all of those seats are good signs for DPAC’s booking future: They’re looking to be more than a hall of legacy, even if it means landing artists who’ve met some share of apathy in America.
Live Actions: New Bills David Gray, DPAC
Rick Cornell ·
10 Jun 2009, 4:34 PM ·
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The lights come up on Steely Dan in Durham Tuesday, June 9. (Photo by Jedidiah Gant)
Steely Dan
Tuesday, June 9
Durham Performing Arts Center
You don’t go to a Steely Dan concert in search of happy accidents and unscripted moments. No note is out of place, and no spotlight is late to a soloist. The tightly choreographed proceedings unfold with a precision that must inspire envy among Swiss watchmakers. In other words, it’s the multi-sensory equivalent of the Steely Dan album’s Aja and Guacho, two painstakingly crafted monuments to the quest for musical perfection, the recording studio used as laboratory.
Such was the case with last night’s appropriately Aja- and Gaucho-heavy program last night in Durham. The flawless execution was especially impressive considering that the Durham Performing Arts Center was the first stop on the band’s latest tour and that there were 13 people on stage, not counting the roadie zooming around on a wheeled office chair. A four-piece horn section, three female support singers, a bassist, a guitarist, a keyboardist, a drummer, longtime cohorts Donald Fagen and Walter Becker: Indeed, this was Steely Dan as a big band. Continue reading »
Live Actions: Reviews DPAC, Steely Dan
Rich Ivey ·
12 Mar 2009, 8:55 AM ·
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Morrissey
Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham
Wednesday, March 11
Hello, little people: The Moz at DPAC, Wednesday, March 12 (Photo by Jeremy M. Lange)
Morrissey cancelled the first four U.S. dates of his Tour of Refusal “due to illness.” Presumably better, he then played an allegedly spotty hour at Myrtle Beach’s House of Blues. Two more gigs, including an Asheville stop, were soon dropped, but the 49-year-old Mozzer decided to take his chances in the not-so-dirty downtown of Durham. Good thing, too.
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Live Actions: Reviews DPAC
