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Music :: Blues also Music :: Concerts
David Bromberg Quintet
7:00 PM
Stargazers Theatre and Events Center
David Bromberg Quintet Description:
Doors @ 6:00PM/ Show @ 7:00PM
Advanced General Admission Tickets: $25 plus ticketing fee/
Day of Show General Admission Tickets (if available): $30 plus ticketing fee

David Bromberg is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. An eclectic artist, Bromberg plays bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country and western, and rock and roll equally well. He is known for his quirky, humorous lyrics, and the ability to play rhythm and lead guitar at the same time. He's played with everyone, he's toured everywhere, he can lead a raucous big band or hold an audience silent with a solo acoustic blues.

Born in Philadelphia in 1945 and raised in Tarrytown, NY, "as a kid I listened to rock 'n' roll and whatever else was on the radio," says Bromberg. "I discovered Pete Seeger and The Weavers and, through them, Reverend Gary Davis. I then discovered Big Bill Broonzy, who led me to Muddy Waters and the Chicago blues. This was more or less the same time I discovered Flatt and Scruggs, which led to Bill Monroe and Doc Watson."

Bromberg's range of material, based in the folk and blues idioms, continually expanded with each new album to encompass bluegrass, ragtime, country and ethnic music, and his touring band grew apace. By the mid-'70s, the David Bromberg Big Band included horn-players, a violinist, and several multi-instrumentalists, including David himself. Among the best-known Bromberg Band graduates: mandolinist Andy Statman, later a major figure in the Klezmer music movement in America, and fiddler Jay Ungar (who wrote the memorable "Ashokan Farewell" for Ken Burns' PBS documentary, "The Civil War").

With the release of Try Me One More Time, David continues his musical revitalization, playing shows on his own, backed by (and supporting) Angel Band, his own David Bromberg Quartet, and reunions of the David Bromberg Big Band, the configuration depending on the circumstance. Listen for that joyful noise - David Bromberg's back!
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Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Stargazers Theatre and Events Center
Address: 10 S. Parkside Dr. Colorado Springs, Colorado 80910
Phone: 719-476-2200

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