An Acoustic Christmas with Over the Rhine

Fri Dec 13 2024 at 09:00 pm UTC-04:00

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An Acoustic Christmas with Over the Rhine
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91.9 WFPK presents
An Acoustic Christmas with Over the Rhine
Friday, December 13 | 8:00 PM | The Kentucky Center – Bomhard Theater
Get tickets: https://bit.ly/OTRChristmasLOU
One December, not long after Over the Rhine began recording and touring, we were invited to perform some seasonal songs on a public radio station in Cincinnati. It was Christmastime and apparently they thought we were up to the task. We worked up a few carols and traditional tunes and Karin even read a poem by Thomas Hardy called, The Oxen.
People must have tuned into the radio broadcast, because we began receiving inquiries as to whether we had recorded any of our Christmas songs. I don’t think we had considered it at the time, but any young, struggling songwriter is open to the suggestions of the marketplace, and people were persistent.
In December of 1996 – can it really be over 25 years ago? – we recorded and released our first song cycle of some of the Christmas carols that still haunted us. We included a few original tunes and called our wintry mix The Darkest Night Of The Year. We played a special “darkest night” release concert on winter solstice in an old 1300-seat theater in Cincinnati. Every last seat was full. Folks began snatching up copies and seemed to agree that they hadn’t heard anything quite like it.
In 2024, more than 25 years after releasing our first holiday CD, we are still at it. This year, we will be leaning into some harmonies and making an intimate but hopefully holy ruckus. It won’t be all Christmas music: we’ll certainly mix in tunes from many of our records along the way. But hopefully, it’s still true: hopefully you haven’t heard anything quite like it.
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The Kentucky Center, 501 West Main Street,Louisville,KY,United States

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