The Del Fuegos in the ’80s (from left, Woody Giessmann, Tom Lloyd, Dan Zanes and Warren Zanes).
Tickets to the following shows are available for free via NJArts.net. Winning entries will be chosen randomly from among those sending emails to njartscontest@gmail.com. Also, please send an email to this address if you are interested in offering tickets for a giveaway.
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The Del Fuegos “just might be the quintessential American bar band,” declared The Chicago Tribune in 1986. The Boston-based band did release some well-regarded albums and do some heavy touring in the ’80s, but by the end of the decade they had broken up. Frontman Dan Zanes became a successful children’s entertainer; his brother, Warren Zanes, a solo singer-songwriter and a writer whose books include “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska” (made into a major motion picture this year) and the definitive Tom Petty biography “Petty.”
The Del Fuegos continue to reunite occasionally, and will do so again this year, with the Zanes brothers joined by co-founding bassist Tom Lloyd and drummer Woody Giessmann (who had joined in time to play on the band’s debut album, 1984’s The Longest Day; listen to that album’s “Out for a Ride” below). They will kick off a mini-tour Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. at The Outpost in the Burbs at The First Congregational Church in Warren Zanes’ current hometown, Montclair. Teddy Thompson will open.
For a chance to win two tickets, send an email with “Fuegos” in the subject line to njartscontest@gmail.com by 10 a.m. Dec. 15.
The “Hollywood in New Jersey” concert at NJPAC, Jan. 3, will feature David Newman and Sebastian Knauer.
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Pianist Sebastian Knauer will perform with the New Jersey Symphony, conducted by David Newman, at the 8 p.m. Jan. 3 “Hollywood in Jersey” concert at Prudential Hall at NJPAC in Newark. Music from films such as “How the West Was Won,” “The Greatest Story Ever Told” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Spartacus” and “The Robe” will be performed.
For a pair of tickets, send an email to njartsdaily@gmail.com with “Hollywood” in the subject line. Note: This one is not a contest: All you have to do is send the email, and you will receive confirmation that there will be two tickets under your name at the venue’s box office.
David Newman has written music for dozens of films, and has been nominated for an Oscar, for his work on 1997’s “Anastasia.” More recent projects include conducting the orchestra for the music heard in “The Wizard of Oz” shows at The Sphere in Las Vegas; doing arrangements and adaptations for Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake of “West Side Story”; and writing music for movies such as “Girls Trip,” “Monster-in-Law” and “The Spy Next Door.”
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