Preservation Hall Jazz Band
and The Del McCoury Band
American Legacies

7:30 p.m. Friday, September 28
Eisenhower Auditorium

The high lonesome sound of bluegrass meets the hot and lively jazz of New Orleans. In a new and thrilling collaboration, the Crescent City’s beloved Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Appalachian-bred Del McCoury Band find a wealth of common musical ground. The bands got together to record American Legacies, a collection of instrumental and vocal gems. Now the iconic ensembles bring classics such as Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya,” the soulful “I’ll Fly Away,” and New Orleans standard “Milenberg Joys” — plus a rollicking hillbilly jazz original “Banjo Frisco” — to the concert stage. “American Legacies sounds exactly like you’d expect a joint album from Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band to sound,” asserts a Glide Magazine reviewer. “It’s a riverboat full of rhythmically intoxicating Dixieland, blues, bluegrass, jazz, and gospel that draws heavily on standards.”