THIS SHELL YEAH! BENEFIT CONCERT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 4/6 TO 6/2. TICKETS FOR THE ORIGINAL DATE (4/6) WILL STILL BE HONORED FOR THIS NEW DATE.
SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS
JUNE 2, 2023
(ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR APRIL, 6th 2023)
General Admission - $35 | Reserved Pod for 6 - $400
FOOD TRUCKS:
Stickem | Soi Number 9 | Green Beetle Food Truck | Pok Cha’s Egg Rolls
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SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $35, and a limited number of Reserved Pods are available for $400 (which comes with 6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters).
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Tickets to the Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series make great gifts to clients, employees, and everyone else! We have different ways for your company or organization to get involved no matter what scale works best for you. To learn more about our custom group ticket packages and Hilltop Hospitality deck party packages, email natalieb@overtonparkshell.org today.
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The Squirrel Nut Zippers began their musical journey in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the mid 1990’s, as a musician’s escape from the cookie cutter world of modern rock radio at the time. Jimbo Mathus along with wife Katherine Whalen and drummer Chris Phillips formed the band as a casual musical foray playing for friends and family around town. It wasn’t long before the band (which had grown in size) developed a reputation for pioneering a quirky mix of jazz chords, folk music, and punk rock leanings and attracted a national audience.
Outside of the rollicking concerts which were rapidly growing in attendance, NPR was the first significant national media to take notice of the band followed by an appearance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. With grunge, and alternative rock in full swing back in 1995, the Squirrel Nut Zippers debut album The Inevitable sounded like nothing happening musically at the time. After the bands sophomore release Hot became a surprise commercial success, the group went on to sell more than 3 million albums between 1995 and 2003.
Some highlights of this era include performing on Dick Clarks New years Eve broadcast; playing Carnegie Hall with Tony Bennet; appearing as musical guest on Sesame Street; performing on late night television including Letterman, Leno, Conan; having a custom animated video made by The Simpsons; performing at Bill Clintons Inaugural Presidential Ball; multiple sold out tours, and even getting the keys to the city of Cambridge, MA where the bands namesake candy hails from.
Since those days the Squirrel Nut Zippers have continued to perform to a wide variety of audiences, venues and settings, and have recently released two new studio albums. Beasts Of Burgundy released in 2018 debuted at #4 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart to critical acclaim: “There is, of course, jazz of various stripes (mainly pre-WWII varieties) on this deliciously wide-ranging comeback, but there’s so much more: sounds, identifiable and not, emanating from mysterious times and places, not the least of which is New Orleans, their home base, a land that, forever and still, has a mind of its own.” – Relix
Lost Songs of Doc Souchon released in 2020 is a combination of newly written Zippers material, along with a few songs from past times like “Animule Ball” which was originally recorded in 1938 by Jelly Roll Morton. In keeping with that time period, the band turned to their longtime friends at Fleischer Studios (home of Betty Boop) to use some of their historic animations for a video for the track.
The Squirrel Nut Zippers continue to confound audiences with their hybrid stew of Southern roots music, New Orleans Jazz, Vaudeville, Blues and a healthy touch irreverence. Not traditionalists – true originals.
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This show has been rescheduled from 4/6 to 6/2. Tickets from 4/6 WILL BE HONORED at the new date.
Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster with $35 GA and $400 Reserved Pods (6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters). Only 15 Pods available. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
More Shell Yeah! Benefit Series dates coming soon . . .