Kathy Mattea Tickets

Terrific "Christmas" show, with Kathy Mattea in fine voice. She also sang some of her well-loved songs.

Great Christmas show, we were lucky to get the very first performance of the 2015 Christmas show in Durham. Super solid band, especially lead guitarist Bill Cooley. Highly recommended!

Kathy Mattea sang a great mix of songs and the musicians she had with her were fantastic. She has a great voice and is very easy to listen to. She also has a great sense of humor. We thoroughly enjoyed her versions of the Christmas classic songs.

What a voice. Kathy and her band put on such a nice show. Just in case there were first-timers in the audience, she sang the old hits in the first set. In the second set, they concentrated on Christmas tunes. It was a wonderful start to the Christmas season.

This is not my first Mattea concert. She never disappoints! This event was her first Christmas concert of the season. The evening was filled with several of her standards along with many songs from her Christmas collection. There were even a few new unreleased pieces. The 5 piece band including Kathy for this concert are all over the top talented. Many emotional moments. And yes, it was a great evening with Kathy Mattea!

Saw Kathy and her band of 4 for the first of her Christmas shows for 2015. She sang some of her big hits and recent "roots" music; the majority were her Christmas songs. They were all just wonderful. She even battled through some issues in the mixing booth and was as professional and delightful as ever. Her voice was beautiful and expressive. Her joy in sharing her talents with strangers was infectious and it's impossible to leave her performance not feeling better. Her band members were all excellent and added to the thoroughly enjoyable evening that lasted over an hour and a half. If you get the chance to see her, do it!

Excellent concert all around. All of the musicians were very talented and skilled. All of the music was breath taking. Could be a wonderful Christmas tradition.

If you love good old time unadulterated country music... this was your show. I felt I was in her living room with a bunch of good friends..... could not have been a better show or venue. I loved it.

I'm a frequent fan of acoustic artists, especially at the Saenger, it's a great venue for that type of performer... I've seen Jackson Browne, Nickel Creek, Emmylou Harris, Josh Turner, Tift Merritt, etc..... all great artists, but none better than this lady! Her stage voice is her recorded voice, you won't be disappointed! In addition, you won't leave with "ear fatigue" , the musicianship in this group prevents that from happening....

Kathy Mattea sang like a gutsy angel. She chose songs from her new CD and from her Grammy-winning CD "Coal," and also cheerfully accommodated a number of audience requests from her huge catalogue. She accompanied herself ably on guitar and banjo, but also performed with an incredible, multi-talented band which included a mandolin/fiddle player with a high tenor for harmonies, a double bass player who sang harmony, and a guitarist/bouzouki player who also sang harmony. Each person in the band delivered jaw-dropping performances; hats off to Kathy Mattea for giving them lots of room to shine individually. Mattea made us feel like we were just hanging out with her on a porch, laughing at her wry wisecracks, sharing her awe at having spent time with some of the traditional folk world's leading writers and songcatchers. I can't imagine a way that this concert could've been any better than it was.

Second time seeing her and once again another supeb show.

This concert was so totally different than I expected. I am a long time Kathy Mattea fan & love real Country music (not what passes for it know). The show opened with the wonderful sounds of Sierra Hull and her Mandolin and I listened in awe of her voice and musical ability, a wonderful start to an awesome night. When Sierra left the stage the applause was deafining. Then within a few minutes Kathy Mattea came out along with Sierra Hull and a band made up of students of Berklee. The energy and enjoyment that the students and Kathy Mattea had together with her songs arranged around the Berklee students talents and vocal stylings was one of the most fun and enjoyable concerts I have ever been to, it even had a spectacular Tuba Solo. Never would have expected that. Kathy mattea spent the week mentoring and working with those kids and seemed so happy & filled with joy & energy, it was an amazing night

Last week I attended my first concert at the Berklee Performance Ctr. I have been a fan of Kathy Mattea’s for several years and have always wanted to see her in concert. For those of you who have never heard of her, she is a Country artist who was very popular about 20 years ago. This was THE concert to see her. Apparently, as part of a program at the Berklee College of Music, Kathy came in for a week of workshops, classes and rehearsals for this concert. She was backed by an ensemble of about 20 students and a couple of faculty. She couldn’t stop talking about how cool it was to meet and work with such talented people. One of the students wrote the string arrangements to some of her songs and he conducted the students while she sang. Kathy made a point to introduce students who had feature solos. A couple of times, after she finished a song, she would look at the audience and say ‘I have the best job in the world!’ She was so inclusive as she performed with the students, smiling and making faces with them. Kathy sang several songs I knew: ‘The Battle Hymn of Love’, ‘Untold Stories’, ’18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses’ and ‘Where’ve You Been’. She said they changed some of the arrangements to take advantage of all the talented students. They ended the concert with a very different but cool version of the Rolling Stone’s song ‘Gimme Shelter’. I need to pay attention to the concert schedule at Berklee, especially the student concerts. This is where you’re going to hear the monster musical artists of the future.

When I saw how low the ticket price, I was afraid it was a Berklee "recital" with a few Kathy Mattea songs mixed in. I am so sorry that hall wasn't packed. It was a night of wonderful musicianship. There were strings, a chorus of back-up singers, traditional instruments, all taking their turn, all supporting the talented and generous Kathy Mattea. Have you ever heard 18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses with a reggae beat? There was no grandstanding, just a well-coordinated and professionally orchestrated evening of pure musical entertainment. Although it was only a couple of hours, it felt like a day at a music festival.

Great concert ! It was incredible to watch Kathy with all of the young performers from Berklee College of Music, from the tuba player to the mandolin player.

Best ever! Kathy reached out and touched her audience with her songs and her acknowledgements of Berklee and its talented students.

It was a very special event. Kathy was excellent, in a way that showed her true professionalism and leadership in conecting with the students at Berkllee. I was amazed at how in one week she was able to have the very talented students perform at such a high level of stage presence. The students are extraordinary!

Kathy appeared in an intimate setting at the Ogle Center on the campus of the Indiana University Southeast. Although the theater was small, the audience greeted Kathy and her simply amazing band warmly. The show was sprinkled with songs from Mattea's latest work, the Grammy-nominated Coal, but also had a liberal helping of her older hits from her days as a country music hitmaker. Her three man band are quite simply some of the best musicians in the business--Bill Cooley, guitar player extraordinaire, David Spicer, bass player, and Eammon O'Roarke, who plays the fiddle and mandolin. It's astounding how much sound comes out of such a small number of players. Their sound is so cohesive that it really sounds as if it's coming from one instrument. Kathy, an incredibly talented vocalist, also is a gifted guitar player who jokes that she wouldn't hire herself to play with the band.

She is a great performer. Lots of fun, audience involvement and memories. Not a bad song in the show and she has a great voice. Her backup musicians were all great instrumentalists and seemed to enjoy performing for the audience. Great evening.

in kathy's own words.."like playing in a very large living room". very personable show. would reccomend and see again!!! thank you for not holding out tickets so it was actually first come first served