TICKETS
Reserved: $50, $40.
General Admission: $30 ($25 advance rate until 6/1).
Doors open at 6:30pm for seating.
Palladium Creative Fellow, LaRue Nickelson, leads a band of Tampa Bay’s finest jazz musicians to showcase an evening of all original music.
LaRue Nickelson is a jazz guitarist/composer from Tampa. LaRue has played in New York, Italy, South Africa, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Montreux, and California as well as festivals and clubs in the Tampa Bay area. LaRue has performed with Peter Erskine, Chick Corea, Giovanni Hildalgo, Frank Foster, Adam Nussbaum, Paquito D’rivera. LaRue is also a composer with more than 75 compositions to his credit. LaRue has released 6 solo projects featuring his original compositions.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
LaRue Nickelson is a jazz guitarist and composer from the Tampa Bay area. He has had a varied and diverse music career with many different groups. LaRue has played in New York, Italy, South Africa, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Russia, Montreux, and California as well as staying very busy doing festivals and clubs in the Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Orlando, and Sarasota, Florida areas. LaRue has performed with Rich Perry, Peter Erskine, Jeff Berlin, Ira Sullivan, Ingrid Jensen, Don Braden, Rufus Reid, Sheila Jordan, Hank Marr, David Leibman, Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge, Chick Corea, Conrad Herwig, Robbie Ameen, Giovanni Hildalgo, Gary Versace, Walt Weiskopf, Frank Foster, Mike Maineri, Adam Nussbaum, Steve Davis, Marcos Cavalcante, Bobby Floyd, Paquito D’rivera and Tony Monaco. He has also recorded with Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge, The Michael Ross Quartet and Cory Christiansen. As well as recording and performing, LaRue is also a composer with more than 100 compositions to his credit. He has released three solo projects, titled Dark Water, Labyrinthitis and Down…and Out. Recently, he has completed recording projects with Tom Brantley, Chuck Owen’s tribute to Michael Brecker, and 2 duo albums with Jeremy Powell. He also has written for two Mel Bay anthologies. He is the jazz guitar instructor at the University of South Florida and currently resides in Tampa, FL with his beautiful wife, Joy, and his slightly less attractive cats, Kilgore Trout and Hodor.
Presented by The Palladium at SPC.
