back to calendar ›

Adam Ezra Group with Special Guests Atlas Gray New Year's Eve Party with Atlas Gray

Share this event:

Adam Ezra Group & Atlas Gray New Year’s Eve in Norfolk! Let’s all bring in the new year with 2 of our favorites here in Norfolk. Great musicians, incredible song writing, and a celebration to bring in the New Year. Included in your Mezzanine ticket is a full dinner and a show package. Grab tickets now and reserve your spot today.

Click here for New Year's Eve Menu - $59/per + gratuity and beverage - reservations highly recommended (dinner included in mezzanine ticket price)

Schedule:
7:00PM – Doors open to the Music Hall for seating/mezz dining
9:00PM – 10:30PM – Atlas Gray
11PM – 12:30AM – Adam Ezra Group
12:00Midnight - Champagne toast

Tickets Prices:

$49 - 63 Orchestra level tickets include: your seat/ticket for the performance, a complimentary glass of champagne to toast to the New Year and party favors. Taxes and fees are not included.

$169 Mezzanine level tickets include: your seat for the performance, a 3 course dinner served at your seat in the mezzanine, a complimentary glass of champagne to toast to the New Year and party favors. Taxes, Fees and Gratuity are included in your ticket price. All beverages are sold separately.

 

Adam Ezra Group

Connect with this artist:

www.adamezra.com

Video:

Artist Bio

We don’t see many artists building the kind of momentum Adam Ezra Group is generating right now.

What has grown over more than two decades of relentless grassroots touring has become something far bigger than a typical touring band: a fiercely independent, fan-powered community that continues to expand one show at a time. Rooms across the country are selling out when Adam Ezra Group comes to town, with longtime fans regularly traveling across state lines to catch multiple shows, drawn by the band’s deep sense of community and the promise that no two nights are ever the same.

The band never performs from a fixed setlist, instead shaping each night around the energy in the room. Songs, stories, and moments unfold in real time—part concert, part revival, and part reminder of what live music can still be at its best.

Blending folk/Americana soul, rock ’n’ roll energy, and deeply human songwriting, Adam Ezra Group has built one of the most authentic underground followings in live music today while quickly becoming recognized on a national level. As SPIN recently put it, they are “an independent underground folk band blowing up without selling out,” a rise that has happened entirely outside the traditional industry system, powered by word of mouth, community activism, and a genuine connection between band and audience that often turns first-time listeners into lifelong fans.

Catch them now while they’re still playing the kinds of rooms where you can give Adam a hug on your way out.

Atlas Gray

Connect with this artist:

www.atlasgray.com

Rumor has it that Sir Tembo (headmaster of a school for wayward boys) took five of his most troubled enrollees on a safari to the Serengeti….a well meaning attempt to further their worldly awareness.

Soon after their arrival, and in the depths of late night darkness, the boys deceptively abandoned the tutorial voyage and scurried out of camp in pursuit of their own cultural expedition.  Haplessly, a few hours into the next morning’s light they were tragically abducted by native tribesman, caged in the center of a remote village and left with little to ponder less their eventual fate.

In no more than a week’s time, our captives frightfully witnessed a merciless midnight raid on the village by a band of rogue elephants.  Dubbed by the tribe’s elders as “The Grays” and their leader as “Atlas” (a bull beyond massive proportions) the pachydermic gang raged havoc and destruction beyond imaginable description.  The boys additionally discovered the attack was somewhat common and the tribe, obviously, had yet to devise the means to avert their repetitive tormentors.

Quick minded, the boys drew from the age old adage that “music calms the most savage of beasts” and devised an ingenious scheme that would hopefully provide a mutually beneficial resolve.  Incorporating hollowed logs and materials stripped from their penal stockade, they hastily fashioned crude percussive and string instruments, composed a repertoire of mesmerizing melodies with intertwined pulsating rhythms……and then sat in wait.

Upon the next assault, the boys immediately began to perform with unbridled passion and conviction.  Low and behold, the ingenious plan proved to be astonishingly effective….the bull became joyously hypnotized and the herd followed suit.  The plunder became a party and sublime harmony prevailed.

Above the most imaginable expectation, the elders were so gratefully impressed they not only released their captives, but also pulled bartered resources to provide the lads’ safe passage back to the US.

Well, you can easily imagine where the continuation of this fable leads us.  Being wayward, devilish and in lieu of desiring conservative careers, the boys (Alex, John, Adam, Andy and Stoltz) were surrealistically convinced.  Music was undeniably their salvation and taking this magical band to the street was nothing short of inevitable destiny.

So what to call the new adventure?

The unanimous decision….ATLAS GRAY.

Video:

---

buy tickets for this show ›

Other Shows you may be interested in:

Entrain Cowboy Junkies The Subdudes with The CarLeans