CANCELLED: Nelly with Blanco Brown – Lil Bit of Music Series – Tickets – College Street Music Hall – New Haven, CT – November 11th, 2021
Nelly
Blanco Brown, Harper Grace
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This event is General Admission Standing Room on the Floor and Reserved Seated in the Balcony.
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NELLY
Nelly, the multi-platinum, three-time Grammy winning artist and four-time AMA award winning entertainer is embarking on a first-of-its-kind experience this Fall showcasing the on-stage fusion of country, hip hop, rap, and R&B with a distinctly “rock n’ roll” presentation. Nelly will be traveling with a full live band as well as a multi-million-dollar production package along with some of country music’s biggest rising stars on three separate series featuring Blanco Brown on the first and Jimmie Allen on the third.
This unique production stems from the celebration of Nelly’s 20-year anniversary of the RIAA certified Diamond record “Country Grammar” earlier this year when fans were gifted with the digital release of a LIVE, full band production of the complete album, not to mention his continued commercial success in country music. Whether fans are attending to party with the classics or bask in his most recent hits like Cool Again with Kane Brown, Good Times Roll with Jimmie Allen and Lil Bit with Florida Georgia Line, Nelly is ready to shake up the live music scene with this show that is sure to have a little something for everybody.
Nelly will hit the road just in time to celebrate the release of “Heartland”, his country inspired EP that he likes to call a collection of “country club-bangers”. His lead single “Lil Bit” from the project continues to make major waves in the country space as it is his 3rd collaboration with the multi-platinum duo Florida Georgia Line. Nelly describes the EP as his “appreciation for country music.”... “It’s my thanks for country music, the whole world of country music, for allowing [me] to be a part of it.”] - Music Mayhem Magazine
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BLANCO BROWN
Blurring the lines between Country and hip-hop music, Blanco Brown makes a southern sound that he proudly calls “TrailerTrap.” It’s a boundary-breaking, multicolored genre of his very own — which draws upon the rawness and storytelling abilities of his two biggest musical influences, Johnny Cash and Outkast. His debut album, Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs, shows off the full range of its creator, who juggled multiple roles as the project’s songwriter, producer, vocalist, visionary, and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, harmonica, lap steel, spoons, tambourine, to name a few). Since 2014, Blanco has been honing in on his unique sound, which is a mix of countrified influences and street-smart lingo, that balances both the urban and rural settings in which he grew up. His viral hit “The Git Up” (certified 3x PLATINUM) took the world by storm, claiming the top spot in charts across the global and spawning nearly four billion views across social platforms. It claimed the No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for 12 weeks and was the top-selling digital Country song in the US for 13 weeks resulting in Billboard naming him as their No. 1 Top New Country Artist for 2019. The music video, which premiered across CMT, MTV, BET and Nick, earned more than 20 million YouTube views in a month. In addition to being named Billboard’s “7 Country Acts to Watch in 2019,” the Georgia native is a background singer, artist and Grammy-nominated engineer who has worked with big name talent including Fergie, Childish Gambino, Kane Brown and Chris Brown. The multi-talent’s collaboration PLATINUM-certified “Just the Way” with the Platinum-selling band, Parmalee has garnered more than 160 million times in the US alone to become Brown’s first No. 1 hit on Country radio. In September 2020 Brown was in a life-threatening accident and has been recovering, leaning on creating music to heal.
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HARPER GRACE
Singer and songstress Harper Grace always challenges herself to dig deep into her most vulnerable heart to connect listeners to herself, each other and the world through the lens of her storied personal journey. A skillful, intuitive multi-instrumentalist, Harper traded early aspirations of becoming an Olympic gymnast for bright stage lights and self-penned songs when her grandmother gifted her an acoustic guitar at the age of seven.
Twelve years, countless performances, and an ever-growing catalog of songs later, Harper is making the move to Nashville to build upon the foundation she’s steadily built traveling from Dallas to connect, collaborate and grow with some of music city’s best. Citing influences from Rascal Flatts to Christina Aguilera, her impressive vocals and live performance chops have afforded her the opportunity to open shows for artists such as Luke Bryan, Jake Owen, Stoney LaRue, Uncle Kracker and Wade Bowen.
Harper’s songwriting strengths are evident in her hooky pop melody sensibilities and a colorful country storyteller’s lyrical voice that continues to evolve with each song written. While she enjoys collaborating with all kinds of songwriters, she says, “I think it’s that personal chemistry and creative relationship with the writer themselves that really helps fuel my creative energy. Trusting and embracing everyone’s individual creative process with the common goal to create something honest, relatable, and of course, FUN! I hope and pray every day that I put a lyric to a melody that someone in the audience, just one person, would be touched and moved by. because that ONE will always matter.”
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College Street Music Hall
238 College Street
New Haven, CT, 06510