Danny Cox's Birthday Celebration & CD Release Max Groove, Lonnie McFadden, Joe Cartwright, Kent Rausch, Larry Knight & MORE
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Kansas City music legend, Danny Cox returns to the concert stage on Sunday, July 18th, 7:30pm
This is a triple celebration. July 18th is Danny's 78th birthday and the release date for his new CD, "Danny Cox - Young and Hot - Live at Cowtown Ballroom". It was recorded in 1973
It is also (July 16 and 17) the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Cowtown Ballroom.
Danny will be joined onstage by some of Kansas City's top musicians including Max Groove, Lonnie McFadden, Joe Cartwright and Kent Rausch.
Tickets are $25 with an added option of getting a signed copy of the CD for an additional $15. The new CD was recorded live at the legendary ballroom in March of 1973 on The Record Plant's first mobile recording truck and features Larry Knight on electric guitar.
It includes Cox interpretations of "Me And My Uncle" and "Jelly, Jelly" and original songs like "Redneck" and "The Train Song".
Tracks will be debuted on Chuck Haddix's Friday Night Fish Fry on KCUR Radio on Friday, July 16th.
Cowtown Ballroom opened fifty years ago, July 16, 1971 and reigned over the city's cultural and concert scene for three and a half years and featured over 100 of the era's top touring artists from Steve Miller, Frank Zappa, Van Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, BB King, Poco, Steve Martin and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Brewer and Shipley and many more. It was later the subject of a documentary film titled "Cowtown Ballroom...Sweet Jesus" produced in KC by Joe Heyen and Tony Ladisch in 2009.
Cox recently appeared for a sold out two week run at the Lyric Opera at Kaufman Center in "Baseball, A Musical Love Letter" where he performed his tribute to Monarch's great Buck O'Neill to standing ovations. Cox has also co-authored a musical about the Monarchs titled "Fair Ball" that will also have a run of dates with Theater For Young America in September.
Join Danny and these great musicians for a triple celebration July 18th at Knuckleheads. See you there!
Folk singer and songwriter Danny Cox has been a fixture of the Kansas City music scene, best known for his 1974 LP album Feel So Good.
Danny Cox was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and moved to Kansas City, Kansas in 1967. As a youth, he sang in a church choir together with Rudolph Iseley, and in the 1960s he started his professional career performing on a Hootennany Folk Tour.
September 2011 Cox recorded the long-awaited "KANSAS CITY-WHERE I BELONG" at Pilgrim Chapel in Kansas City, MO. Produced by Dr. Roger Coleman, filmmaker Benjamin Meade and musician Bob Walkenhorst, the CD (along with a short film entitled "Up Close and Personal" by Benjamin Meade) was released January 2012 by Pilgrim Chapel Music in Kansas City, MO. Included are tracks that Cox wrote more than 30 years ago along with more recent material featuring his son Joseph. The package artwork features several drawings by Cox and was designed by Amy Young.
In 2012, Cox wrote the music, lyrics and starred in the show Fair Ball, a musical play about the dramatic history and courage of the men and women who played against all odds of racial segregation, including the “Jim Crow” laws, in the Negro leagues of baseball. The musical is a revision of The Monarchs of KC and includes new songs, characters, and true stories from a tumultuous and entertaining era of baseball history.
Kansas City music legend, Danny Cox returns to the concert stage on Sunday, July 18th, 7:30pm
This is a triple celebration. July 18th is Danny's 78th birthday and the release date for his new CD, "Danny Cox - Young and Hot - Live at Cowtown Ballroom". It was recorded in 1973
It is also (July 16 and 17) the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Cowtown Ballroom.
Danny will be joined onstage by some of Kansas City's top musicians including Max Groove, Lonnie McFadden, Joe Cartwright and Kent Rausch.
Tickets are $25 with an added option of getting a signed copy of the CD for an additional $15. The new CD was recorded live at the legendary ballroom in March of 1973 on The Record Plant's first mobile recording truck and features Larry Knight on electric guitar.
It includes Cox interpretations of "Me And My Uncle" and "Jelly, Jelly" and original songs like "Redneck" and "The Train Song".
Tracks will be debuted on Chuck Haddix's Friday Night Fish Fry on KCUR Radio on Friday, July 16th.
Cowtown Ballroom opened fifty years ago, July 16, 1971 and reigned over the city's cultural and concert scene for three and a half years and featured over 100 of the era's top touring artists from Steve Miller, Frank Zappa, Van Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, BB King, Poco, Steve Martin and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Brewer and Shipley and many more. It was later the subject of a documentary film titled "Cowtown Ballroom...Sweet Jesus" produced in KC by Joe Heyen and Tony Ladisch in 2009.
Cox recently appeared for a sold out two week run at the Lyric Opera at Kaufman Center in "Baseball, A Musical Love Letter" where he performed his tribute to Monarch's great Buck O'Neill to standing ovations. Cox has also co-authored a musical about the Monarchs titled "Fair Ball" that will also have a run of dates with Theater For Young America in September.
Join Danny and these great musicians for a triple celebration July 18th at Knuckleheads. See you there!
Folk singer and songwriter Danny Cox has been a fixture of the Kansas City music scene, best known for his 1974 LP album Feel So Good.
Danny Cox was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and moved to Kansas City, Kansas in 1967. As a youth, he sang in a church choir together with Rudolph Iseley, and in the 1960s he started his professional career performing on a Hootennany Folk Tour.
September 2011 Cox recorded the long-awaited "KANSAS CITY-WHERE I BELONG" at Pilgrim Chapel in Kansas City, MO. Produced by Dr. Roger Coleman, filmmaker Benjamin Meade and musician Bob Walkenhorst, the CD (along with a short film entitled "Up Close and Personal" by Benjamin Meade) was released January 2012 by Pilgrim Chapel Music in Kansas City, MO. Included are tracks that Cox wrote more than 30 years ago along with more recent material featuring his son Joseph. The package artwork features several drawings by Cox and was designed by Amy Young.
In 2012, Cox wrote the music, lyrics and starred in the show Fair Ball, a musical play about the dramatic history and courage of the men and women who played against all odds of racial segregation, including the “Jim Crow” laws, in the Negro leagues of baseball. The musical is a revision of The Monarchs of KC and includes new songs, characters, and true stories from a tumultuous and entertaining era of baseball history.