The 20th annual Hank-O-Rama festival, celebrating the musical life of Hank Williams, will be held at Bowery Electric on New Year’s Day.
Hank Williams will be celebrated at the Hank-O-Rama show 71 years after his death. Williams is regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century. He recorded 55 singles that reached the top ten of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 12 that reached No. 1.
Hank Williams was just 29 when he was found dead in the back seat of his Cadillac on the morning of Jan. 1, 1953, in Oak Hill, WV, en route to a New Year’s Day gig in Canton, Ohio. The Hank-O-Rama celebration is a symbolic rain date for the last show Williams would ever miss. September 17, 2023, was the 100 anniversary of his birth.
The show features more than 30 of Williams’s hits and rarities, including “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Hey, Good Lookin’,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” and many others, performed live by recording artists and Hank-O-Rama founders The Lonesome Prairie Dogs.
Special guest vocalists include Tammy Faye Starlite, Tom Clark, Elena Skye & Boo Reiners of the Demolition String Band, Jack Grace, Monica Lil’ Mo Passim, Cliff Westfall, Sean Kershaw, Mony Falcone, and other stars of the NYC & Brooklyn country firmament.
Hank-O-Rama will also include The Lonesome Horns featuring trumpeters Jordan McLean & Billy Aukstik, with original horn arrangements for Williams’s “Ramblin’ Man,” “Alone and Foresaken,” and others.
Tickets for Hank-O at the Bowery Electric are $15 in advance, $20.00 at the door. Doors open at 6:30, music at 7:00.
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