Highline Ballroom Announces Schedule of Upcoming Events

Highline Ballroom Announces is schedule of upcoming events

Highline Ballroom is located at 431 West 16th Street between 9th Avenue and 10th Avenue.
Tickets may be purchased through Ticketweb, online at ticketweb.com or at the Highline Box Office from noon until doors close at 866-468-7619.

For further a complete listing of events, directions to the venue and for the latest updates visit us on the web at www.highlineballroom.com or call 212-414-4314
All events are subject to change.

JUST ANNOUNCED

· BROADWAY UNDERGROUND PRESENTS-RUN THE NIGHT-NYC'S MOST EXPLOSIVE DANCE COMPETITION - November 1 - SHOW @ 8:00PM
· CHRIS PUREKA - November 17 - SHOW @ 8:00PM

· GIG WITH CHRISSI POLAND - December 18 - SHOW @ 8:00PM

· THE 12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT FEATURING ADRIAN LEGG, BRIAN GORE, LULO REINHARDT, MARCO PEREIRA - January 12 - SHOW @ 7:30PM

· JIM BREUER & JIM BREUER AS HEAVY METAL MAN - January 13 - SHOW @ 7:00PM

· CRACKER & CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - January 14 - SHOW @ 7:00PM

Get creepy with QUEENSRÿCHE and the Highline Ballroom this Halloween...

October 31, 2011
Highline Ballroom

Doors open @ 7:00PM
Show @ 9:00PM
$55 adv, $60 at door

Queensrÿche is celebrating its 30th anniversary in rock this year with the release of its 12th studio album, Dedicated to Chaos, released earlier this year on Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud and followed by a major support tour. Since the band's inception in 1981, it has sold over 20 million albums worldwide and has performed in over 22 countries. The band - consisting of original members Geoff Tate (vocals), Michael Wilton (guitar/vocals), Eddie Jackson (bass/vocals), and Scott Rockenfield (drums), along with recent addition Parker Lundgren (guitar) - remains world renowned for its innovative, trend-setting sound and continues to enjoy incredible success, performing for sold-out audiences worldwide. Dedicated to Chaos marks the group's first studio project since the band's highly acclaimed 2009 release, American Soldier.

Although the band's first three albums (Queensrÿche EP (1983), The Warning (1984), and Rage for Order (1986)) hit gold status, it was the release of the landmark concept album, Operation: Mindcrime, in 1988 that thrust the group into the rock limelight. Universally respected as a classic concept release about rock, revenge, and redemption, Operation: Mindcrime is ultimately regarded as one of the most important and essential hard rock records in the genre's expansive canon.

1990's follow-up, Empire, yielded a No. 1 single, the Grammy-nominated ballad "Silent Lucidity," which the band performed at the 1992 Grammy Awards accompanied by a supporting orchestra. In 2006, the band released Operation: Mindcrime II, a scorching sequel to the original release. The band then hit the road performing both albums back-to-back in their entirety in an incredible theatrical presentation throughout the year. The final performance was recorded at The Moore Theatre in Seattle that October, and the Mindcrime at the Moore double CD/DVD release debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Music DVD Chart and eventually reached gold status.

It's now 2011. Queensrÿche remains Dedicated to Chaos and looks forward to bringing some of it your way.

UPCOMING SHOWS - NOVEMBER 2011

EVERY SATURDAY LATE NIGHT at The Highline Ballroom:

The Rewind Show
with live performances and celebrity DJs
21 or over to enter
Doors at 10:30pm, Show at 11:00pm
$20 at door
RSVP to info@4kent.com
The Rewind Show is a vision we have had for as long as we have been in the business of night clubs and event planning. We are tired of the same concept that every night-club in NYC has been stuck with over the years and think that it's time to change the way to party! As we all know nothing can compare to a live performance and therefore we have created the Rewind Show! We want to bring an experience like no other by combining the live music of the 80's Rock & Roll era along with the best DJ's spinning the present hits. Every Saturday night, the Highline Ballroom will operate as a high-end night club to let people experience the Rewind Show. (http://therewindshow.com/)

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Broadway Underground Presents
RUN THE NIGHT
NYC's most explosive dance competition
Concert starts @ 8PM
Doors open @ 6PM
Tickets:
General Admission: $15.00
Reserved VIP: $25.00
New York City dancers need their BIG break. Connections & callbacks don't always equal work & money. RUN THE NIGHT is NYC's most explosive dance competition. Join BIG industry judges and a LIVE audience to decide who wins RUN THE NIGHT. Featuring Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap Dance, Contemporary, Stepping and more! RUN THE NIGHT is sure to be a joyous experience with innovative acts, popular music, and loads of dance.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
WFUV Presents
Shelby Lynne
Concert starts @ 8PM
Doors open @ 6PM
Tickets $35.00
Full dinner menu available / General Admission Seated Show / All Ages / First come, first seated / $10 min per person at tables
Shelby Lynne was destined to be a singer. Raised in rural Alabama by musical parents, she was surrounded by country music from the past - artists like Hank Williams, Dottie West, Waylon Jennings, the Everly Brothers, the Beatles, and Elvis. She started playing guitar by age seven, and by high school graduation her mind was made up and a move to Nashville was inevitable. Shortly after relocating to the music epicenter, she met veteran songwriter Bob Tubert, who took a chance and played her demo tape for the producer of the television program iNashville Now/i, hosted by Ralph Emory. The performance won her a record deal by CBS Records, where legendary producer Billy Sherrill came out of semi-retirement to produce her first record.

After five albums in Nashville, Lynne was hungry for a change from the Nashville system and searched for a record producer who wanted to collaborate on a project. She enlisted Bill Bottrell, who had produced for Michael Jackson and Madonna and had big success with Sheryl Crow on the highly successful Tuesday Night Music Club. Together, they recorded the album I Am Shelby Lynne on the northern California coast in 1998. The album was a huge success and earNed Lynne a Best New Artist Grammy Award in 2000 - after 13 years in the music business.

Lynne built on the success of I Am Shelby Lynne with 2001's Love, Shelby. A pair of intimate, self-produced albums followed - Identity Crisis (2003) and Suit Yourself (2005). She made her acting debut in 2005, playing Johnny Cash's mother in the Fox Searchlight motion picture Walk The Line. Just a Little Lovin', her critically acclaimed tribute to Dusty Springfield, was released in 2008.

Never one to go with the crowd, Lynne continues to stand apart from the mainstream music world. She recently founded her own label, Everso Records, and the label's first release, Tears, Lies, And Alibis, debuted at No. 16 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart in April 2010. A Top-10 hit at Americana radio, the disc was hailed by Newsday as "[Lynne's] strongest album in a decade" - a sentiment echoed by numerous critics. She followed Tears, Lies, And Alibis with her first-ever holiday collection, Merry Christmas, released in the fall of 2010.

Revelation Road - Lynne's most personal record yet - will be released on October 18, 2011. She wrote, recorded, and produced the album, which leads off with the title track and first single, "Revelation Road," a stirring reflection on reckoning and redemption. Lynne will be touring North American this fall.
Friday, November 4, 2011 (Early)

Sonny Landreth
Jim Keller Band
Concert starts @ 7:30PM
Doors open @ 6PM
Tickets $25.00 in advance
$30.00 day of show.
Full dinner menu available / General Admission Seated Show / All Ages / First come, first seated / $10 min per person at tables

From the Reach, Sonny Landreth's ninth album, is the first to be released on his own Landfall label. On it, the Louisiana-based slide-guitar wizard does something unprecedented in his body of work, as he collaborates with five of the greatest guitar players on the planet - Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson and Vince Gill -- In some jaw-dropping performances. Also making a house call is the legendary New Orleans pianist and singer Dr. John and Margaritaville's iconic troubadour Jimmy Buffett.

On the opener "Blue Tarp Blues," Sonny trades solos with Knopfler, and the aural contrast
between Sonny's shimmering slide and the Dire Straits leaders' biting Strat is a textural treat. Clapton appears to cut loose on the following "When I Still Had You," adding his soulful voice to the choruses as well. Slowhand then wails on "Storm Of Worry", a spooky slow blues reminiscent of his Bluesbreakers era. "The Milky Way Home" is a powerful instrumental rocker that features Eric Johnson on delectably distorted guitar passages that morph into his trademark cello-like sound. "The Goin' On" shifts into a country-rock groove, with Vince Gill and Sonny alternating between guitar solos and lead vocals. Robben Ford brings his soulful tone and phrasing to "Way Past Long" and "Blue Angel (the latter with Gill on backing vocals), as Landreth swaps his trusty Strat for a Les Paul. Each of these performances is an extraordinary showcase of brilliant players reacting to each other in supremely inspired fashion.

"I've wanted to make this kind of record for a long time - to do an entire album that would
feature some of my favorite players as special guests," says Landreth, who's as articulate as
he is virtuosic. "And after all these years, I've gotten to become friends with them, so that
addressed the question of, who do you ask? Every one of them wanted to do it, so that really fired me up."

"The other thing was how to do it without it being yet another clichéd ‘duets' album," he
continues. "Then I got the idea to write the songs specifically for each of the artists and that was the real hook for me, as a writer as well as a guitar player. I grew up listening to Eric and Mark, and these other players have influenced me along the way. Not only that, but we all came up listening to a lot of the same music, so we had a common ground to work with. Once someone would say yeah, then I had to come up with songs that were worthy of them."

Landreth spent a year writing these songs, and another year putting the album together - a logistical feat of some magnitude considering the fact that every one of the principals, including Landreth, spends considerable time on the road. The process for most of the recording involved two stages. After Landreth had a particular song written, he went in the studio with his band and longtime engineer Tony Daigle and completed the basic tracks, leaving space for the guest guitarist. Daigle then sent his mix of the song to the player to do his part, along with a backing vocal in some cases. (The exceptions were the tracks with Gill, which were cut face to face in Nashville, and the one featuring Dr. John, which was recorded in New Orleans.)

"I'd get back these fantastic solos, and I'd go, ‘Oh my God, I've gotta recut mine!" Sonny
recalls with a laugh. He's exaggerating, but he did take a second pass at a couple of his parts.

The stereo spectrum of the mix that features Landreth on the left and the other player on
the right, a functionally effective approach that enables the listener to get the feeling of back-and-forth hot licks most vividly. "We did it to tap into the conversational aspect of it," Sonny points out. Indeed, it probably couldn't have been made this way before digital technology brought virtually unlimited flexibility to the recording process. What matters is that it truly feels in the moment - even if that moment was separated by time and distance.

"That was of course the goal with these performances," Sonny confirms. "They've gotta feel right. I was going for the essence of what inspired me to begin with about these fabulous
musicians, and that's what I honed in on, I was able to go, ‘This sounds like a lick he would
do,' and then write that into the arrangement. I really wanted to make sure we captured each
of their individual voices on the guitar, and I feel like we did that."

In one of two delightful changes of pace to the album's six-string focus, Dr. John brings the
requisite gris-gris to "Howlin' Moon" with his trademark rollicking piano and harmonies; he's
joined on the track by Jimmy Buffett. "Although the idea of the record was playing with my
guitar heroes, I wanted to be open to the unexpected as well," Sonny explains. "I'd written ‘Howlin' Moon' a long time ago, and I always had Dr. John in mind for it. Then we took it a step further with Jimmy's vocal and the vibe was perfect."

As for the rest, "Let It Fly," a slice of exotica so warm that sweat drips off it, features backing vocals from Buffett discovery Nadirah Shakoor. The title of "Uberesso," a blistering instrumental from Landreth and his band, was inspired by Sonny's passion for making
espresso. The album closes with the metaphysical ballad "Universe," as Gill adds his glorious voice to the goosebump finale.

Anchoring the grooves is Landreth's touring rhythm section: bass player David Ranson and drummer Mike Burch. Steve Conn, another regular, is on keyboards. Sam Broussard plays acoustic on "Universe" and "Let It Fly."

As for the intriguing album title, "I thought about it a lot," says Sonny. "One of the most
interesting things to me in the songwriting process is letting it cook and bubble and see what comes up to the top. As I was writing these songs, the word ‘reach' kept coming up, and ‘reach' is a pretty powerful word. Aside from the obvious meaning, it can refer to a body of water. And the water imagery kept appearing as well, so it's like this is what came up out of this whole project for me. What would happen if I invited all these people; where would this take me? I literally reached out to them, and they graciously came on board. Then there was the impact locally of Katrina. So the title is the result of all of the above. It's coming from an honest place."

The same could be said of everything this one-of-a-kind artist has done in his single-minded career.

For further a complete listing of events, directions to the venue and for the latest updates visit us on the web at www.highlineballroom.com or call 212-414-4314