(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- Bergen Performing Arts Center (BergenPAC) presents The Brian Setzer Orchestra 12th Annual Christmas Rocks! Tour, Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 8PM. The 12th Annual Christmas Rocks! Tour coincides with the release of his new Christmas album “Rockin’ Rudolph”.
“It’s been about 10 years since I made a Christmas record,” says Setzer. “It (Christmas music) just seems to get more popular every year. They’re classic songs and you wonder after a couple records how many of them are left. Once you dig in you find, wow! I’ve haven’t done ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,’ you know. I’ve never done ‘Here Comes Santa Claus!’ Ones that everyone knows and are still out there. These songs are great songs. It doesn’t matter if they’re holiday songs or when they were written, they’re just great songs. So the trick,” adds SETZER, “is to make them sound hip. Some of them are eternally hip, you know, so you don’t have to do too much.”
Iconic guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and 3-time Grammy-award-winner, is a "Musician's Musician" credited with continually taking chances with innovative and daring musical styles, while single-handedly resurrecting two forgotten genres of music (rockabilly in the ‘80's and swing in the '90's). Along the way, he has scored chart-topping hits, sold 13 million records and received the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award throughout his decorated career as founder/leader of the Stray Cats, his 18-piece Brian Setzer Orchestra, and as a solo artist.
He is consistently cited as one of the world’s greatest living guitarists, and has a best-selling, extensive line of elite Gretsch signature model guitars bearing his name. Setzer has received the distinct honor of being asked by the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. to donate a replica of his original 1959 Gretsch 6120 “Stray Cat” guitar, joining an elite collection of musical instruments at the museum including Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet and John Coltrane’s saxophone.
Tickets range from $39 - $119 and be be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030.
BergenPAC is located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, NJ. For more information visit www.bergenpac.org
