For Immediate Release-January 10, 2011
Media Contact: Mindy Giles/Swell Productions
[email protected]
www.swell-productions.com
916.447.6508
Swell Productions/Couplabob Productions,
Inc. Present Humorist Jack Gallagher's Return
to 24th Street Theatre:
The New, One Night Only Concert Event, "The
Joke's On Me... Again!"
(Sacramento, CA) Back by town folk demand, is
Sacramento’s favorite humorist, Jack Gallagher, in
a brand new one night only concert event, "The
Joke's On Me....Again.”
Saturday, February 26, 2011
The 24th St. Theatre/Sierra 2 Center for the
Arts & Community
2791 24th St., Sacramento
Two performance times: 5PM & 8:30PM
Doors: 4 PM (5 PM show)
Doors: 7:30 PM (8:30 PM show)
Swell Productions Information #: 916-457-7553
www.swell-productions.com
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 door
General Admission/All Ages
Available now at www.inticketing.com, Phono Select Records
(2312 K Street/Sacramento) and all Dimple Records locations.
Last year, after a first act comprised of his stand-up comedy,
Gallagher was joined by his musical colleagues, The Dick Bright Band,
in the second act to perform some of his favorite tunes.
This year the same band returns to Sacramento to perform even more
great music and to tell the rock & roll boomer tales that go with them.
“This is an amazing band of Bay Area musicians,” Gallagher beams—
“The Rubinoos' Tommy Dunbar and Al Chan, drummer Kevin Hayes
(Robert Cray/John Lee Hooker/Van Morrison), keyboardist Allen Leong
and the legendary maestro himself, Dick Bright. (World Series viewers
saw Dick play "The Star Spangled Banner" during one 2010 World
Series game in SF.) "Music has been a huge part of my life since I was
10 or 12. If I'd spent as much time studying for school as I did
memorizing lyrics and reading liner notes, I'd be a rocket scientist”
reveals Gallagher.
Last year’s 24th Street Theatre show sold out quickly by word of
mouth so in 2011, a second show has been added: 5 PM and 8:30 PM.
Gallagher gives a heads up to ticket buyers: “Remember, there is
always a chance you might be called on to help the band, so brush up
on your rock star moves.”
Jack’s back story:
Across the country, PBS viewers know the Emmy-winning Gallagher
from his long running shows, “Money Track,” “Money Moves,” “OffLimits” and “Kids, Cash and Common Sense.” Network/cable television
included his own ABC sitcom “Bringing Up Jack,” and an occasional
recurring role as Larry David’s doctor on the HBO Original Series “Curb
Your Enthusiasm.”
A favorite of talk/variety show hosts and audiences, the nationally
known stand –up comedian has made numerous appearances across
the years on “The Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay
Leno, as well as NBC's “Late Night with Conan O'Brien.” And a certain
generation knows him from the 1991 Bobcat Goldthwait cult classic,
“Shakes the Clown.”
But it is his one–man monologue shows commissioned by Buck
Busfield and the B Street Theatre here in Sacramento that have
created Gallagher’s die-hard fans. His critically acclaimed works-“Letters to Declan” (1998), “Just The Guy” (2003), “What He Left”
(2006) and 2010’s brilliant “A Different Kind of Cool” have given the
Irish-American writer and family man a longer-form chance to dig for
common truths via his autobiographical and comic exposés.
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Media: For further information, hi res color JPEGS, other downloadable
media and interview arrangements, please contact Mindy Giles/Swell
Productions. 916-447-6508. [email protected]
www.swell-productions.com
www.jackgallagher.info