{"id":40802226906,"date":"2018-08-15T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T17:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/?p=40802226906"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T17:57:55","slug":"monmouth-u-welcomes-wynonna-the-big-noise-in-a-just-added-pollak-theatre-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/monmouth-u-welcomes-wynonna-the-big-noise-in-a-just-added-pollak-theatre-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth U welcomes Wynonna & The Big Noise in a just-added Pollak Theatre concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University<\/strong> has announced that tickets are now on sale for a concert starring one of the biggest names in country music from the past several decades: the million-selling chart topper, multiple award winner, and multi-talented creative force known as Wynonna<\/strong>, with her band, The Big Noise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Scheduled for Saturday, December 8, the 8 p.m. show is a newly announced addition to the 2018-2019 Performing Arts Series at Monmouth\u2019s flagship performance space, the Pollak Theatre. It\u2019s also a late add to a busy nationwide concert itinerary for the Five-Time Grammy winner who made her initial public splash as Wynonna Judd, the younger-generation half of The Judds, the mother\/daughter duo who took the American pop music scene by storm in the 1980s \u2014 and it brings the veteran vocalist, novelist, and actress to campus for the first time in her hard-touring 34-year career.<\/p>\n

The story of The Judds is the stuff of Nashville dreams, with more than 20 million units moved in the act\u2019s first six years alone, a trophy room of major awards, 14 Number One hits, and a lasting legacy that\u2019s inspired some successful reunion projects with mother Naomi Judd here in the new century. But it\u2019s as a solo performer that Wynonna has carried on the family business for the past 25 years \u2014 and it\u2019s in her more recent incarnation as a swaggeringly confident, rock-rhythm-and-blues infused bandleader that the coastal New Jersey audience will get acquainted with The Big Noise.<\/p>\n

The singer who took such country ballads as \u201cShe Is His Only Need\u201d to the top of the Billboards had been seriously flirting with a leaner-meaner sound, as far back as her appropriately titled 1997 album \u201cThe Other Side\u201d \u2014 and in the early part of the current decade, she teamed with husband and ace drummer Cactus Moser to form Wynonna & The Big Noise<\/strong>, a guitar-driven touring and recording unit that released its first single in 2013 \u2014 and its (to date) only full length album in 2016. Bolstered by guest appearances from the Eagles\u2019 Timothy B. Schmit, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, and Jason Isbell, the band\u2019s eponymous LP finds the frontwoman well at home in a set that ranges from gritty blues-rockers (\u201cAin\u2019t No Thing,\u201d \u201cYou Make My Heart Beat Too Fast,\u201d \u201cCool Ya\u201d) to the trad Americana of \u201cThings That I Lean On\u201d and \u201cJesus and a Jukebox.\u201d<\/p>\n

With its mix of impeccably tight musicianship and Wynonna\u2019s proven star power, the Moser-produced album set the pace for the singer\u2019s live excursions in the seasons since its release, with recent tours revisiting (and re-energizing) material from all points on her career timeline. Performing with a newfound sense of purpose \u2014 and finding a new extended \u201cfamily\u201d in her acclaimed band \u2014 Wynonna opens up her big heart, winning new fans and displaying the winning quality that works everywhere from arena-scale auditoriums to intimate song circles among friends.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the December 8 appearance by Wynonna & The Big Noise are priced at $65 and $75 (with a Gold Circle seating option available for $85), and can be reserved through the Monmouth University Performing Arts Box Office at 732-263-6889, or online at www.monmouth.edu\/MCA<\/a>. Tickets for other upcoming Performing Arts events \u2014 including the alt-folk family band The Hunts (October 26, 2018), and rockabilly bass ace Stray Cat Lee Rocker (April 13, 2019)\u00a0 \u2014 are also on sale now. To schedule interviews, please contact Kelly Barratt at 732-263-5114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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