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Bruce Hornsby, the American singer, songwriter and pianist best known for the 1986 hit “The Way It Is”, recently announced a concert coming up in San Ramon with his current touring band The Noisemakers.
Hornsby has amassed 13 Grammy Award nominations and three wins during his career, including Best New Artist with his then-accompanying band, the Range, after their debut album – titled “The Way It Is”, the same as its smash single. He also won Best Bluegrass Recording in 1990 with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1995 with Branford Marsalis.
The 71-year-old musician is dropping his newest album, “Indigo Park”, ahead of his upcoming tour. Its 10 songs shift between extremes of “light-dark, memory-fantasy, calm-rage, doubt-certainty”, according to Hornsby’s website.
“One minute, Hornsby is using all the Beach Boys’ earworm tools at his disposal to evoke the glorious, transcendent rush of air at the mountaintop,” the website states. “Then, a few songs later, he’s shuffling through a woozy bowery two-step, talking about sleeping on asphalt with an iron grate for a pillow. Telling anyone who’ll listen how the end of the world was not his fault.”
“These juxtapositions, so vivid in the rendering, are themselves a rarity now,” according to his website. “Like many of his contemporaries, Hornsby is operating in a pop ecosystem that has grown narrower, more conformist, less adventurous. The edges and nuances that characterize so much of classic pop have been rounded off, disappeared, sanitized to satisfy the algorithm.”
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers are set to play at the Dougherty Valley Performing Arts Center in San Ramon on their “Indigo Park Tour” at 8 p.m. June 10. Tickets are selling fast after the concert announcement last month. Learn more at tickets.sanramon.ca.gov.
Other upcoming shows at the 587-seat theater on the Dougherty Valley High School campus include “Connections Chapter 4” by Dance Connections this Sunday (Feb. 22), San Ramon Academy of Music showcases on March 1, Electric Elton – A Tribute to Elton John on March 7 and an homage to Linda Ronstadt with Ronstadt Revival featuring Shannon Rae on March 22.
