| The New Mexico Symphony Presents Michael Krajewski's Red, White & Bluegrass Pops Concert Series Starring Billy Hill and the Hillbillies |
[An advertisement from the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra's official website] Pops Concerts Upcoming Concerts Artists, dates, times, locations and programs are subject to change. RED,WHITE AND BLUE(GRASS) POPS Date and Time
Celebrate the best in American popular music from Ragtime to Rock 'n' Roll. Hear all-American favorites such as Alexander's Ragtime Band, When the Saints Go Marching In, Rock Around the Clock, and many more. Special guests Billy and the Hillbillies will have you clappin' your hands and grinnin' from ear to ear with their unique brand of down-home music and good ol' country humor. Performers: |
The hotel map..... click on the map to enlarge. |
The Radisson Room Information Booklet and Room Receipt. |
A "Billy" Airplane ticket on Southwest Airlines from LAX. |
The Radisson Hotel Keys |
The beautiful Albuquerque skyline, home town of Billy Elvis | |
Popejoy Concert Hall |
The Popejoy Seating Chart | |
[This article is from the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Program.] The Hillbillies have brought their "Class-grass" concerts to stages all across the United States, including solo appearances with the Buffalo Philharmonic, The Long Beach Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Wichita Symphony and the Tulsa Philharmonic. They are also celebrating their 10th year in their own theater at Disneyland, where they have performed shows to well over 3 million park guests.
Founder Billy, enrolled under the name, John Williams Marshall, received his music degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles. Trained as a classical violinist, he served as concertmaster of the Occidental-CalTech Orchestra. He began violin lessons at age 10. Always balancing his serious music pursuits, was a love of fiddle music, inspired by the TV show Hee-Haw, and Buck Owen's fiddler, the incomparable Don Rich. John formed his first bluegrass band in high school. Years later, John returned to Hollywood Bowl as fiddle soloist in a Los Angeles Philharmonic "American Music" Concert, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. John resides in Southern California with his wife and three children. Kirk Wall (a.k.a. Billy) is an all-around artist, who has performed everything from comedy to drama, from opera to rhythm and blues. Kirk cites as his major influence, his father, A. V. Wall (a member of the NMSO Chorus), an excellent tenor and choral conductor. While other fathers were tossing a ball to their son, Kirk's father was teaching him how to sing. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Kirk and his musical family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he started playing violin at age 7. He soon found himself playing the title role of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in an Albuquerque Civic Light Opera production, the first of many leading roles in musical theater. Kirk moved to Los Angeles in 1980, and landed a role on the television "soap", General Hospital. Other TV credits, include Highway to Heaven and as guest-star on the Fall Guy with Lee Majors. In 1988, he joined the group Billy and the Hillbillies, assuming the name "Billy". Kirk resides with his wife in Fullerton, California, where he "jams" on guitar with his daughter, Grace Ann. Evan Marshall (a.k.a. "Billy") possesses an uncanny mandolin technique, which the Raleigh-Durham Independent called "super-human" and the Washington Post called "truly dazzling". Besides his "obvious virtuosity" (Pasadena Star News), he also has, "in color and texture...a stunning mastery of interpretation" (Saint Paul Pioneer Press). Mr. Marshall's accomplishments are legend among other artist of the plucked strings: Chet Atkens calls him "one of the few great musicians of our times"; David Grisman put it simply, "the world's fastest mandolinist". Dennis Fetchet (a.k.a. Billy), a native Californian, began violin lessons at age eight, but a year later was lured away by the baseball diamond. In his mid-teens, music became a part of his life, as the bluegrass band, The Dillards made a big impression. Basically a self-taught player, Dennis, in addition to having violin as his main instrument, is also well-versed on mandolin, guitar and harmonic. Dennis's extensive credits include decades of world touring with country star, Hoyt Axton, Byron Berline's L.A. Fiddle Band, The Bluegrass Cardinals, as well as dozens of album and movie credits, (Weird Al Yankovic, Back to the Future III, etc.) and his own fiddle album. Besides the Hillbillies, Dennis has worked extensively with various musical groups at Disneyland since 1986. As Dennis says, "Music is my life". |
Jan's World was able to obtain 63 exclusive pictures of the Albuquerque Symphony Concert from Billy DBC member, Corinne Brewer.
These pictures were taken from the back of the Popejoy Concert Hall with NO FLASH, so bare with us, as it is a miracle that we got any pictures at all. To see Corinne's Albuquerque Pictures, CLICK HERE
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Special Thanks go to Corinne Brewer for the pictures, Dennis Fetchet for the other items, Debbie Brewer [Debbie's Two Cents] for the set list information and Kirk, John, Evan and Dennis for allowing me to do this site. [Please don't use Corinne's Pictures without permission] |
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