The Malpass Brothers and Noel Haggard to Perform with Merle Haggard

Two supporting bands have just been added to the Merle Haggard concert at the EnCana Events Centre in Dawson Creek on Wednesday, March 10.

Tickets for this show are $65.00 and $55.00 (additional convenience fees and service charges may apply). You can purchase tickets at the Tiger Box Office Plus, Dawson Co-op High Performance Ticket Outlet, 1-877-339-TIXX, or www.dawsonco-optickets.com.

THE MALPASS BROTHERS - Christopher Malpass was simply born in the wrong era! Only in his early 20's, Christopher croons the tunes of the great, late singers such as Hank Wiliams Sr., Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb, and Johnny Cash. Taylor Malpass, just a young teenager, provides novel musicianship for the group! He sports a Gibson mandolin on most of the group songs, but also trills the audience with electric guitar licks in the styles similar to his heroes Billy Byrd (guitarist for Ernest Tubb) and Paul Yandell (guitarist for th Louvin Brothers). The brother duet is joined by their father, Chris Malpass. He provides support on the upright bass.

www.malpassbrothers.com

NOEL HAGGARD - Noel Haggard was born in Bakersfield CA. It's no wonder that his music is of the raw nature....pure, simple and easy on the ears. Born the fourth child of the Great Living Legend Merle Haggard and Billie Leona Hobbs, Noels soul permeates the same taste in music that his father and the country music fore fathers of Merles childhood days, and they are so vividly displayed in Noels music. Not to be denied his roots he has gained many valuable musical lessons from some of the greatest country musicians from the 50's, 60's & 70's. Somehow Noel has taken a little from each influence to make his own delectable sound.

Noel plays for Noel and his fans now, and that concept of thinking has allowed him to dig deeper into his own style of music and not the corporate styles that are divvied out by record executives. Noel is comfortable with who he is, and that he is the son of a living legend, but most of all he is comfortable with fact that being in the shadows of a man like Merle is a pretty fortunate place to be. His love for his father and family have come together to make Noel the artist that he is today...and his new album "Nite Time Man" (that merle named) shows these qualities that he has acquired over the years. This album takes you on a journey in time with some earlier renditions of Dealing with the Devil, Stop the World (in memory of Bonnie Owens), Blues Man and a song written by Merle for Noel "Learning to Live with Myself" and a few that have never been recorded. Noel is definitely reminiscent of his father, and yet somehow Noel has taken the great vocal and phrasing lessons of Merle and successfully used them to acquire is own personal style. After 22 yrs in this business Noel is enjoying his time on stage and the pleasant cheers of encouragement that his fans provide. Today Noel says the most important thing to him is making a living doing what he loves and carrying on the tradition that his father started, after all he is just a "Working Man". Noel quoted that, "At the end of the day without the fans your just singing to yourself".

www.myspace.com/noelhaggard

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