{"id":43932,"date":"2013-10-09T06:17:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=43932"},"modified":"2013-10-09T06:17:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:17:04","slug":"koz-and-friends-at-npac-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/10\/09\/koz-and-friends-at-npac-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Koz and Friends at NPAC in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fresh off the sold-out Dave Koz and Friends at Sea Mediterranean cruise and a show at London\u2019s Cadogan Hall, eight-time Grammy\u00ae nominee Dave Koz is now back in the States, where he\u2019s sitting in with the band on \u201cThe Arsenio Hall Show\u201d on October 15 and getting ready for the holidays. Koz always celebrates in a big way, entertaining thousands of his closest friends in a jaunt that takes him from coast to coast.<\/p>\n

Now celebrating its 16th anniversary, this year\u2019s Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour will feature renowned singer Oleta Adams, who first came to prominence when Tears for Fears asked her to appear on their The Seeds of Love<\/i> album, and who has released eight acclaimed CDs of her own, crossing effortlessly between R&B, jazz, popular and gospel music;\u00a0Jonathan Butler, who was the first black artist played on white stations in his native South Africa and has since earned accolades in the R&B, contemporary jazz and gospel fields; and Japanese-born pianist\/composer\/producer Keiko Matsui, who has shared the stage with everyone from Stevie Wonder to Miles Davis.<\/p>\n

\"Dave<\/a>The run will kick off the day after Thanksgiving at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, Fla. The Tour arrives at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio on Tuesday, December 10, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $29-$45 and are available online at www.npacvw.org<\/a> or through the Box Office, 419.238.6722, from noon-4 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Niswonger is located at 10700 Ohio 118 on the south edge of Van Wert.<\/p>\n

Year after year, fans return for an uplifting, high-energy show that offers fresh, unexpected takes on seasonal favorites and hits from each of the artist\u2019s careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cDave Koz = Christmas,\u201d said the El Paso Times<\/i>. \u201cAs anyone who has seen more than one of Koz’s shows can attest, there’s a different energy each time he performs because he shares the stage with a rotating cast of characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only did (Koz and Friends) \u2026 revamp the tinsel and garland mainstays, they offered an array of non-holiday tunes that beautifully captured the spirit of the season,\u201d noted the Dallas Morning News<\/i> in a review of last year\u2019s show. \u201cThough the cast changes every year, the warm feeling remains the same,\u201d observed the Palm Beach Post<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI Got You (I Feel Good),\u201d the brand new single from Dave Koz and Friends Summer Horns<\/i> (Concord Records), goes to radio this week. The San Jose Mercury News<\/i> called Koz and Friends\u2019 rendition of the James Brown classic \u201ca funk-filled fun fest\u201d in a review of the album, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s<\/i> Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart in June 2013, marking the renowned saxophonist\u2019s seventh No. 1 album. It spent five weeks atop the chart and is still in the Top 10.<\/p>\n

Fellow saxophone players Gerald Albright, Richard Elliot and Mindi Abair joined Dave on Summer Horns<\/i>, which pays tribute to the great horn sections that fueled hits by such artists as James Brown, Earth Wind & Fire, Chicago, Tower Of Power, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Sly & The Family Stone. “Got To Get You Into My Life,” the collection\u2019s first single, spent seven weeks at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s <\/i>Smooth Jazz chart and was recently nominated for a Soul Train Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Niswonger PAC information Fresh off the sold-out Dave Koz and Friends at Sea Mediterranean cruise and a show at London\u2019s Cadogan Hall, eight-time Grammy\u00ae nominee Dave Koz is now back in the States, where he\u2019s sitting in with the band on \u201cThe Arsenio Hall Show\u201d on October 15 and getting ready for the holidays. Koz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 04:52:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}