Chilly Sundays. Savory Sounds.
Featuring Dave Bennett.
We cap off our annual Winter Brunch and Concert Series with the hot musical stylings of the Dave Bennett Band. Join us for this final concert that offers a brunch curated by The War Memorial's executive chef team, flowing Mimosas, and music that will melt Winter's Chill.
Your Morning
10:45am: Doors open
11am: Gourmet brunch is served upon your arrival
Mimosa and Bloody Mary Bar
Custom Omelette Stations
Curated brunch offerings prepared by The War Memorial’s Executive Chef
12pm: Featured Performance
Complete Series Lineup
Sunday, January 21: Scott Gwinnell, jazz piano and Emma Aboukasm, vocals
Sunday, February 25: Sean Dobbins, jazz drums
Sunday, March 10: Chamber Soloists of Detroit, chamber music
Sunday, April 21: Dave Bennett, jazz clarinet
Tickets
VIP Tickets
Including Bottomless Mimosa and Bloody Mary Bar
VIP brunch and concert: $90
VIP table of eight: $680
General Admission Tickets
Cash Mimosa Bar
Brunch and concert: $75
*Your ticket price includes a 24% gratuity and 6% Michigan sales tax and open seating at tables for eight, except for reserved VIP tables of eight.
About Dave Bennett
“Dave Bennett is a genuine clarinet phenomenon. His music enthralls audiences with toe-tapping swing, moody blues, and emotional ballads.”
Dave Bennett doesn’t fit the mold.
For starters, you don’t find many jazz clarinet players who name Alice Cooper, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Chris Isaak among their influences. You also won’t find many musicians who are equally conversant with the music of Benny Goodman (the “King of Swing”) and Roy Orbison (“The Soul of Rock and Roll”).
Bennett is a clarinet virtuoso who plays electric guitar, piano, drums, AND vocalizes. Saluting Swing to Rock: covering music from the Swing Era to early Rockabilly and Country, to Elvis Presley and more. Leading His Tribute to Benny Goodman, Dave has been a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops (2013) and has played the show with 35 other US and Canadian orchestras including Nashville, Detroit, Rochester, Omaha, Toronto, Vancouver, Orlando, San Antonio, Jacksonville, Portland, OR and Portland, ME, and Houston. Fifty performing arts centers across the USA have had success with his presentations.
An annual fixture at several American music festivals, Dave’s “Rockin the ‘50s” show always brings down the house! Dave pays tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis (piano and vocals), and Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley (electric guitar and vocals). Dave’s original compositions are influenced by the style of Roy Orbison, the “Soul of Rock and Roll”. Some of his annual “roots music” presenters include The Elkhart Jazz Festival, The Suncoast Classic Jazz Festival, The Arizona Classic Jazz Festival, The Southeast Clambake Music Festival, and The Redwood Coast Music Festival.
Dave has been featured on NPR Radio’s “Jazz at Riverwalk.” He made his European debut in 2008 at the The Bern Jazz Festival (Switzerland) in a combo with jazz legends and Benny Goodman band alumni guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and vibraphonist, the late Peter Appleyard.
Dave is a Mack Avenue Records artist. His 2013 CD “Don’t Be That Way” met with critical acclaim.
His second release, Blood Moon, which features five originals and six pop/jazz covers, hit the No 24 on the Billboard Jazz chart in 2018.