Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2011 Brings Holiday Magic to the Kravis Center November 27th
SPECIAL GUESTS RICK BRAUN, JONATHAN BUTLER
AND CANDY DULFER JOIN KOZ ON TOUR
(November 16, 2011-West Palm Beach ) Christmas arrives early this year when Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2011 comes to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on November 27th at 8pm. Trumpeter/composer/producer Rick Braun, South African singer/guitarist Jonathan Butler and Dutch saxophone star Candy Dulfer will join Koz for the 14th anniversary of the tour. The four will perform hits from their respective catalogues and jam on new arrangements of holiday favorites.
Ultimate Christmas, featuring 18 holiday songs performed by Dave Koz, was released in October by Capitol/EMI. The collection featuresthe six-time GRAMMY® Award nominee’s renditions of such perennial holiday classics as “The Christmas Song,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Deck The Halls,” “O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)” and “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” plus “White Christmas” featuring Kelly Sweet and “Please Come Home for Christmas” featuring Kimberley Locke. The songs were hand-picked from Dave’s three previous holiday albums – December Makes Me Feel This Way, A Smooth Jazz Christmas and Memories of a Winter’s Night. Koz also recorded two brand new instrumentals for Ultimate Christmas: “Welcoming the Season (Prelude)” and “Welcoming the New Year (Coda).”
“[Koz] works extremely hard at engaging his audience. His showmanship, in fact, is impeccable,” said The Timesof London . The Palm Beach Post called last year’s Christmas tour “downright uplifting and energizing” while the El PasoTimes observed: “El Paso’s love affair with Dave Koz, and his with us, showed no signs of letting up…as Koz and his latest touring companions lit up the Plaza Theatre like a Christmas tree.”
Dave’s latest studio album, Hello Tomorrow, debuted at No. 1 on both Billboard’s Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and iTunes’ Jazz Album chart and was named the “Best Smooth Jazz Album of 2010” by iTunes. Hailed as “an event record” by The New York Times, it features “Put The Top Down,” which spent 18 weeks at No. 1 on the Mediabase Smooth A/C chart (the longest stint at No. 1 of any of Koz’s chart-topping hits), the Top 5 hit“Start All Over Again” featuring vocalist Dana Glover and Dave’s version of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David classic “This Guy’s In Love With You,” which hit No. 1 on the Breakouts for Hot Dance Club Play chart. “Anything’s Possible,” Koz’s latest single, was also a #1 hit record.
Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2011 brings its holiday musical magic to the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts November 27th, 2011 at 8pm. Ticket prices start at $20 may be purchased at the Kravis Center box office, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in downtown WestPalm Beach; online at www.kravis.org; by phone at (561) 832-7469 or (800) 572-8471 or at all Tickemaster locations.