Harris Center for the Arts Program Guide 2023-2024

Jim Brickman
Tuesday, February 6, 2024; 7:30pm
IN CONCERT
singles on the adult contemporary
charts, including 14 Top Ten smashes.
His collaboration with soaring country
songstress Martina McBride, the
beautiful paean to love titled Valentine,
scored at mainstream country radio
in 1998, peaking at No. 9. Other
Brickman staples include Simple
Things with Rebecca Lynn Howard,
Peace and The Gift, both with Collin
Raye and Susan Ashton, Never Alone
with Lady Antebellum, and Love of My
Life with Michael W. Smith.
In 2013, Brickman's The Magic of
Christmas, featuring the 2003 remake
of Sending You A Little Christmas
with Johnny Mathis, landed at #1 on
Billboard New Age and took the #58
spot on Billboard Top 200.
Brickman believes music helps to
shape its listeners and their lifestyles.
He wants his fans to use his music
as part of everyday life, which is why
he’s recorded inspirational albums,
lullabies, romantic records, and of
course Christmas albums. Music
for soothing the aches of daily life,
and music for hanging the mistletoe
– that’s the Jim Brickman way. The
highest compliment you can pay this
53-year-old pop pianist is to tell him
that his compositions became the
soundtrack while delivering a baby,
taking a bubble bath, enduring chemo
therapy, lulling your little one to sleep,
dancing with daddy at the wedding,
and falling in love again. “This is
more than just ‘I love that hit song’,”
Brickman says. “It’s the experience.
I am more about the experimental
way that people use the music more
so than ever. I want the music to be a
constant part of their lives.”
BIO Hailed by the Boston Herald as
"a crowd-pleaser,” Jim
Brickman will take the audience on a
musical journey with his romantic
piano melodies and engaging wit,
making this concert a must-see-event!
Four of his albums have been certified
gold by the Recording Industry
Association of America – 1995’s By
Heart, 1997’s Picture This and The Gift,
and 1999’s Destiny – for sales of more
than 500,000 copies. Overall, he’s sold
more than 7 million albums.
Brickman has amassed 27 Top 40
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