Hello again and welcome to the fall theater season!

 

We are VERY excited to share the news that on October 10 at 8pm, Music Hall will be visited by the ‘Oh Yeah! Tour’ featuring two New Orleans Legends: Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Allen Toussaint

“The best jazz band in the land” (San Francisco Examiner), Preservation Hall Jazz Band and New Orleans icon Allen Toussaint will join forces for the first time ever for an evening of legendary music making one night only, Saturday, October 10^th at 8 PM in the 1700 seat, acoustically perfect Music Hall Main Hall.

 

It’s a match of icons made in American musical heaven, and has an interesting local angle: Preservation Hall clarinetist and saxophonist Charlie Gabriel migrated as a teenage boy with his family from New Orleans to Detroit in the 1940s during the American auto industry boom. There he and several of his family members introduced traditional New Orleans jazz, marching brass band parades and second line funeral processions into the music community. He’s played with Lionel Hampton and Charles Mingus, was a member of Aretha Franklin’s Orchestra, as well as J.C. Heard’s Band. He also backed many prominent vocalists and musicians such as Nancy Wilson and Ella Fitzgerald. Charlie and other family members organized the first known jazz funeral in Detroit in 1982 for his father Martin Manuel Gabriel. After more than 50 years in Detroit, Charlie moved back to New Orleans in 2010 to become a lead member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, with whom he now tours.

 

Tickets are $50 / $40 / $30 / $20 students with I.D. STUDENT TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT BOX OFFICE ONLY.  

 

Please let me know if I can assist with group seating. We look forward to welcoming you to the Music Hall!

 

Julie Gervais,

Community Engagement & Social Media

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