Mannheim Steamroller News

The Christmas favorite Mannheim Steamroller will bring its holiday tour to Missoula for a November concert at The University of Montana.

Onstage during last week's One World Concert at Orcas Center, local writer Ed Wilson surprised singer-guitarist-composer Gene Nery by presenting him with a platinum record, commemorating the sale of one million copies of a Mannheim Steamroller Christmas album, on which a song sung by Nery with lyrics by Wilson appeared.

Christmas is coming a bit early to the Holland Performing Arts Center. Chip Davis, the popular Omaha composer whose Mannheim Steamroller tours have become a holiday-season fixture, will conduct the encore of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's concert tonight at the Holland.

Here is the 2009-2010 lineup for the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center: Barter Theatre's Of Mice and Men , Oct.

The B-52s fly into town June 24. Courtesy of UApresents UApresents 2009-10 season All performances are held at Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd., on the University of Arizona campus, unless noted.

Mention the CB radio anthem "Convoy," and UTEP Dinner Theatre's Greg Taylor remembers marching band practice at Parkland High School, from where he graduated in 1977.

'Mannheim Steamroller: Music of the Spheres,' which was scheduled to play the theater at Rabobank Convention Center at 7:30 p.m. Feb.

Audubon native Bill Fries is known throughout the world as the fictional truck driver C.W. McCall.

I don't know where the gentlemen who wrote the letter to the editor was sitting at the Mannheim Steamroller concert, but where I was sitting the people were clapping and enjoying the concert to the fullest.

In 1970, RCA released a revised "budget" edition, which dropped four gospel songs from the original and added two songs, including Presley's 1966 holiday hit, "If Every Day Was Like Christmas." It has sold ...

LET'S TAKE IT FROM THE LUTE SOLO: Mannheim Steamroller "could pretty much go indefinitely, as long as people view it as a Christmas holiday tradition," says Chip Davis, center .

THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC OF MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER: Since 1984, Chip Davis' Mannheim Steamroller has been redefining the sound of Christmas via instrumental albums that have sold in eye-popping quantities.

'Tis the season for holiday music, which in many homes means traditional Christmas carols and Bing Crosby's classic croon.

In This Week's eQB This week's eQB speaks with Mannheim Steamroller's Chip Davis and features Programming To Win, Hot Shots and This Week in FMQB History.

Chip Davis performs with members of the Mannheim Steamroller choir. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Friday at the Mason Temple in Detroit.

The more things change, the more Mannheim Steamroller stays the same. For more than 30 years, the musical entourage -- modeled on what founder Chip Davis first envisioned as 18th-century classical rock -- has ...

The live version of Mannheim Steamroller keeps on rolling without Chip Davis in the band.

The Reno Wind Symphony performs its holiday concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St.

Aimee Man performs live at the Keswick Theater this Saturday, Dec. 13. WXPN, December 12, 2008 - Aimee Mann doesn't seem like the type to gravitate toward Christmas music - there's nothing Bing Crosby or ...

A Christmas staple - Mannheim Steamroller concerts - could have disappeared this year if not for the determination of the shows' creator.