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The Nighthawks with Rev. Billy C Wirtz – $10/13
March 12, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
$10 – $13
5pm – $10/13
The Nighthawks (BLUES/R&B/HONKY-TONK)
The Nighthawks was an idea in Mark Wenner’s brain long before he was able to implement it. The musical product of pre-1958 radio in Washington, D.C., he did not know there were rules against mixing blues, R&B, honky-tonk country, doo-wop, gospel and rockabilly into one delicious stew.
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz (BLUES/PIANO/COMEDY)
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz is a comic genius, gifted pianist and American musicologist who defies easy classification. “I like to think of myself as the Victor Borge of the blues,” states the Reverend, but Billy goes way beyond Borge both in scope of subject matter (from politics to social commentary) and, of course, in taste. In fact, no theme is too extreme, taboo, or undignified for the Reverend, so long as it garners a good laugh.