We are thrilled to announce that Danny was been added to all-star lineup of musicians performing on Friday, January 22 at The Roseland Ballroom for moe.’s WHY (World Hunger Year) benefit. Tickets are available now! Confirmed musicians include moe. along with Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers Band), Jeff Austin (Yonder Mountain String Band), David Sanborn, and Marco Benevento (The Benevento Duo).
Founded in 1975, WHY focuses on creating awareness of poverty and hunger around the world, and recognizing and implementing realistic solutions to this ongoing crisis. moe. and WHY (World Hunger Year) have decided that they will direct some of the proceeds raised at the benefit on 1/22 to relief efforts in Haiti.
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For those of you in Philadelphia, Danny will be performing as part of WXPN’s ‘Free at Noon’ concert series this Thursday, January 1/21. The ‘Free At Noon’ concert series is a co-production of WXPN and NPR. For those of you outside of Philadelphia, you can stream the six-song performance in its entirety live at NPR.org.
Last night, Alberta Cross took the stage and played the Fashion Week party at The Varvatos Store; And it turns out that the band that would take the stage after them was… GUNS N’ ROSES.
The grand prize winner of the ATO Fan contest is Jessica Thornton of Newell IA. Her amazing encounter with Brendan Benson was quite the tale. Here’s the story:
“In between songs it got REALLY quiet, so naturally I yelled “PLAY WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR!!” (as it’s my favorite song in the world EVER). And Brendan looked at me sort of like “I’ll get to it when I get to it silly” so I yelled “I’LL PLAY IT FOR YOU!!!” Brendan was like “On the guitar?” I yelled “YEAH!! Just not in front of everyone though” Then he said “I might have to hold you to that” Well.. they got done playing and went off stage until we cheered his name. And he came back up for the encore, and held out his guitar, looked straight at me and said “You think you can do this?” And I said “ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?? UP THERE!? I’M GONNA POOP MYSELF!!!” (Lol) He said “NOOOOo! Don’t do that!!” And a bunch of people in the audience said “Just do it!! You have to do it, It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity!!” So I decided to grow some balls and get up there with shaky fingers. At first I messed up and couldn’t find the fret *what I’m looking for* started on, I was SOOOoo nervous! But then I finally got it! And the band started in, and Brendan started singing!”