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ROB MATHES CHRISTMAS CONCERT
ROCKS IN THE HOLIDAYS
A 16-Year
Holiday Tradition – Concerts Friday, December
18,
Saturday, December 19 & Sunday, December 20
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Celebrate the holiday season with the annual Rob Mathes
Christmas Concert! Grammy and Emmy nominated musician,
music director, singer/songwriter, arranger, and record
producer Rob Mathes and his amazing all-star band
take to the stage for three concerts December 18, 19 and
20, 2009, Presented at The Performing Arts Center
Purchase College. Rob Mathes is the celebrated music
director of the annual Kennedy Center Honors and of this
year’s inaugural “We Are One” concert for President Barack
Obama on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This year is
Rob Mathes’ 16th annual Christmas concert! Concert benefits
the Making Headway Foundation and the Max Scotti
Fund in support of brain cancer research and treatment.
Concerts: December 18 & 19 at 8:00 p.m., and December 20
at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $40 & $55 and are available online
at www.artscenter.org
, through the Box Office at 914-251-6200, or through The
Music Source in Old Greenwich, Conn., at
203-698-0444. Presented at The Performing Arts Center
Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y.
The holidays are a special
time for Rob Mathes, who is often affectionately referred to
as “Mr. Christmas” by some of his fellow musicians. Rob’s
sense of wonder of the Yuletide season shines through in his
original songs that combine rock ‘n roll, pop, R&B, jazz,
classical and choral, that he has written and arranged
specifically for his annual Christmas Concert and his
numerous holiday CDs. Performing with Rob are some of the
top musicians in the New York area, such as Will Lee on bass
from David Letterman’s CBS Orchestra, Billy Masters on
guitar, award winning vocalists, a horn section that has
played with the Rolling Stones, and Rob’s own 30 member
Friends & Saints Choir. The Rob Mathes Christmas Concert is
also a highlight for the band as well, as they get to play
with one of their favorite musicians, and play some of the
most rockin, spiritual and meaningful songs of the season.
This year’s concert has
special meaning for Rob Mathes. Each year, Rob’s concerts
are used as a benefit to support a worthy non-profit,
traditionally supporting children in Africa. This year, Rob
is dedicating the concert proceeds to something closer to
home and something very personal to him, his family, and his
community - the Max Scotti Fund and Making Headway
Foundation, which are dedicated to the care, comfort and
cure of children with brain and spinal cord tumors. Max
Scotti was a brave and beautiful seven year-old boy who was
a student of Rob’s wife Tammy, and who passed away this year
from brain cancer. Rob has written an incredible song
entitled “Everywhere” in honor of Max, which he wrote
last year at Christmas when he found out Max was sick. The
song is a universal song that could be sung for anyone, but
it also is a song that speaks Max’s name at the beginning
and in every single line, and it was Rob’s wish that through
the song, that love would follow him everywhere. The
song will be performed live at this year’s Christmas
Concert.
Concert goers will also be
entertained with more of Rob Mathes’ original holiday songs,
such as Wake Up It’s Christmas Morning, When The Baby
Grew Up, and the very popular ballad William The
Angel, as well as some of Mathes’ newer material that
embraces all aspects of the holiday season – from Christmas
to Hanukkah – like the beautiful Light in the Window,
written for local fan and longtime supporter of the
concerts, Rabbi Mark Golub. Mathes also enjoys performing a
little Bob Dylan each year with the song Ring Them Bells,
and also includes Rob Mathes’ original arrangements of
traditional carols such as Deck the Halls, Silent Night,
Angels We Have Heard on High and I Wonder as I Wander.
In 2007, Mathes introduced his new “Orchestral Songs”
CD that was recorded with a full orchestra in London at
Abbey Road, and several of those songs will be performed
this year as well.
“The Christmas Concert is a
highlight of my year,” noted Rob Mathes. Even with the
incredible year I’ve had, musically directing Obama’s
inaugural concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, to
being nominated for an Emmy for the Kennedy Center Honors,
nothing compares to being able to come home and play the
holiday music I love. The Christmas Concert is the pinnacle
of my year!”
Rob Mathes has had a banner
year too – with extremely diverse work, this year spans
musically directing the Obama Inaugural “We Are One”
concert; the Kennedy Center Honors, which he was nominated
for an Emmy for the third time this year and which the show
won for Best Musical/Variety special (this is Rob’s seventh
year as music director – the show tapes on December 6 and
airs on CBS on December 29 at 9PM). Rob also arranged songs
for Avril Lavigne, nevershoutnever (who Rob is very excited
about this new major label project), Butch Walker, and
Dashboard Confessional. He musically directed the
Songwriters Hall of Fame, working with James Taylor, Crosby,
Stills and Nash, and Bon Jovi. His orchestral commission by
Leonard Slatkin and The Nashville Symphony to compose a
Concertino for Orchestra premiered in February. Rob also
produced the new band The Young Veins; and produced a record
for an amazing Rhythm and Blues vocalize Bettye Lavette, who
blew everyone away by performing “A Change Is Gonna Come”
for the Obama inaugural concert. He also arranged for Lou
Reed and Renée Fleming for the upcoming Nobel Prize Concert
in Prague. Also very exciting for Rob this year is the
release of Rob’s song “Why” by Rascal Flatts as a single,
which has climbed the Billboard Top 20. Rob is currently
beginning work on a Gershwin project produced by Phil Ramone,
and working with Jason Mraz, Jewel and Rob Thomas. Rob’s
other credits include working with Elton John, Eric Clapton,
Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder,
Luciano Pavarotti, Panic At The Disco, LeAnn Rimes, Eliane
Elias, Michael Cavanaugh, Melissa Errico, Vanessa Williams,
Just Blaze, Jay Z, Fabolous, Ghostface Killah, Carly Simon,
Michael McDonald, Sheryl Crow, Tracy Chapman, Shelby Lynne,
Fall Out Boy, Bowling for Soup, Hall and Oates, Yo Yo Ma,
Barbara Streisand, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Diana
Ross, Brian Wilson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton,
Smokey Robinson, Tina Turner, and many more.
Rob’s Christmas Concerts have
become so popular and an integral part of the holidays that
the concerts were increased last year from two performances
to three, and will be performed: Friday, December 18, &
Saturday, December 19, at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, December
20, at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $40 & $55 and are available
online at
www.artscenter.org , through the Box Office at
914-251-6200, or through The Music Source in Old Greenwich,
Conn., at
203-698-0444. Presented at The Performing Arts Center
Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y.
To learn more about Rob Mathes, visit
www.RobMathesMusic.com or
www.RobMathes.com.
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