CD Release:The Last Waltz Ensemble
April 3rd, 2008 by Grant Britt in Music news, music briefs
Atlanta native Kris Gloer is still giving thanks for Turkey Day 1976. The Band played its Last Waltz on Thanksgiving more than three decades ago, but Gloer and a six-man band of Atlanta-based musicians keep the music and the spirit of that era alive.
As the Last Waltz Ensemble, the group emulates the show the Band performed that night, with significant differences. Gloer doesn’t call the outfit a tribute band, billing it as a concert celebration. “It’s not a re-enactment,” Gloer says by phone in Atlanta. “We do over 50 songs from different eras of the Band and Bob Dylan.”
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