TICKETS
Reserved: $50, $35, $25.
Doors open for seating one hour prior to showtime.
2019 Grammy Nominee and 7X Blues Music Award winner Victor Wainwright is selling out venues throughout North America. With five Blues Music Piano Awards, Band of the Year, and the coveted BB King Entertainer of the Year Award, Victor Wainwright is at the top of his game.
Join us at the Palladium for an evening of blues and Americana! For the first set, Victor will premiere his TRIBUTE TO THE PIANO GREATS FEAT. VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & FRIENDS. He’ll begin with an exploration of some of the great Blues piano players – Pinetop Perkins, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Span and more – and work his way up into some rollicking fun featuring showstoppers from the songbooks of Little Richard, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Doctor John, and more. The second set will feature VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & THE TRAIN with THE TRAIN HORNS performing originals from his critically acclaimed albums – THE TRAIN and MEMPHIS LOUD – featuring Terrence Grayson on bass, Pat Harrington on guitar, Samuel L Butts on drums and The Train Horns: Chandler Judkins and Gavin Jorgensen.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Wainwright serves as an electrifying guide to a good time-spinning tales, telling his listeners how to beat the blues, and meticulously conjuring raw soul and energy out of his acoustic piano. He displays a sharp sense of humor and a knack for storytelling… every track is brilliant.” –Living Blues Magazine
“Victor Wainwright is a world champion piano player, two times over! Not only is Victor one of the greatest blues piano players in the business, he’s also a world class entertainer and vocalist.” –Blues Revue Magazine
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Though his career began over a decade ago with genuine rock n’ roll honky-tonk, Wainwright has broadened his artistic scope over the years to include music representing virtually every corner of the roots music world. His insatiable interest in music discovery, sheer love for entertaining and curiosity have led him all around the world, and the resulting perspective is a reflection of his passion for entertaining and creating progressive roots music in an effort to move the art-form forward. Composer, producer, vocalist, and award wining entertainer and piano player; Victor Wainwright is a raucous high-octane, dynamic performer and crowd pleaser with soul to spare.
The name of Victor Wainwright’s band – and the sleeve image of their albums – is also the most fitting of metaphors. In music folklore, the train might have associations with the freight-hopping bluesmen of yore, but with this restless boogie-woogie innovator stoking the furnace, Wainwright is a charging locomotive – surging forward, crashing through boundaries of genre, sweeping up fresh sounds and clattering headlong past the doubters.
Presented by The Palladium at SPC.
