Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Deep winter chill and copious amounts of snow have arrived rather early this holiday season, so venutre out and warm up this week with live music by Oedipus Tex, Jim Brickman, Clyde Stubblefield, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Monday 12.8
Tuesday 12.9
Cafe Montmartre, 9:30 pm
When he's not performing instrumental rock with El Valiente, Texas native Eric Caldera takes his cues from the likes of Billy Bragg, Built to Spill and the Postal Service. Also playing: Kaslo Band, Icarus Himself.
Wednesday 12.10
Overture Center's Overture Hall, 7:30 pm
The prolific composer and pianist, practitioner of a New-Agey sort of pop romanticism, arrives with holiday fare.
Cafe Montmartre, 9:30 pm
Funk drummer Clyde Stubblefield, one of the most widely sampled musicians in the world, provided the beats for James Brown's Sex Machine album and currently makes music for Michael Feldman's popular NPR show Whad'Ya Know? Catch him tonight with Dave Adler, one-eighth of the Gomers.
Thursday 12.11
Kohl Center, 7:30 pm
Though they're a prog-metal band, TSO isn't known so much for their machismo as their grandiose symphonic arrangements of Christmas music, which have been holiday-season radio favorites for more than a decade. While the group uses a 60-piece orchestra and a choir when recording, they are still pretty massive on tour, bringing along 14 vocalists, 14 instrumentalists and two narrators.
