The Cumberland County Playhouse is among the stops on Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.’s 14th annual “Home For The Holidays” Christmas tour.
The all-new show features the Season 6 “America’s Got Talent” winner crooning his way through Christmas classics and fan favorites from the Great American Songbook with his Landau Little Big Band.
The Playhouse performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5. Tickets are $40 and are available at ccplayhouse.com and landaumurphyjr.com/events; call 931-484-5000 or stop by the Playhouse at 221 Tennessee Ave., Crossville, for more information.
The Crossville performance is among those in December in Murphy’s home state of West Virginia, and the neighboring states of Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Murphy is the soul-and-Sinatra singing sensation who first rose to national attention on NBC TV’s “America’s Got Talent.”
His debut album “That’s Life” spent several weeks atop the Billboard Jazz charts and in the Top 40 overall. Landau has since released four additional well-received albums including his latest first-ever album of all original material full-length album “I’m Not Messing Around.”
All songs have been written or co-written by Murphy and the album’s producer, Rob Hegel, best known for his work with Air Supply, Labelle’s Sarah Dash, and his solo career, which included appearances on American Bandstand and scoring the themes for many network television shows including “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert.”
He has penned an Amazon No. 1 best-selling memoir, appeared on several network TV shows, had a featured role in a film, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, was named one of the Top Outstanding Young Americans by the United States Jaycees, and has toured around the world, performing hundreds of sold-out concerts.
During the COVID-19 pandemic and his forced time off the road, Murphy turned his attention to his education, went back to school online, and received his high school equivalency diploma three decades after dropping out, proving it’s never too late to graduate. He is now a leading advocate for adult literacy.
Visit www.landaumurphyjr.com for more about Murphy.