David Moore with special guest Dustin Busch

Name: David Moore with special guest Dustin Busch
Start: 2024-12-23T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-12-23T22:00:00-06:00
Location: 213 N Gilbert Street, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52245

Schedule

Mon Dec 23 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

213 N Gilbert Street, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52245 | Iowa City, IA

A holiday surprise! Dave Moore is playing The James Theater on Monday, December 23, 2024! Bring your family and friends for a warm and festive night of live music and community. Tickets are $15, and the doors will open at 6:30pm for a 7:00 show. We hope to see you there!

We were reminded a few weeks ago by a performer from Wisconsin just how amazing it is that we have some giants and legends of music right here in our area. It's one of the reasons why we built the James Theater; to give them a home to perform. So when the amazing Dave Moore emails you at 1:03 am on a Friday morning and suggests he might want to play a pop up show on the Monday before Christmas.... well, he gets to! So that is what we are going to do and he is bringing his friend Dustin Busch. As Dave described him: "Dustin Busch started borrowing records from me when he was 9. Started backing me up at the age of 14. Thankfully, he's back in Iowa city and one of the most intuitive musicians I've ever known, not to mention my "illegitimate son" as I call him."

Dave Moore is one of the great songwriters to come out of the state of Iowa. Known for his elegant songwriting and instrumental prowess on blues guitar, button accordion and harmonica he has become somewhat of a legend. Coming of age in the late ’60s and early ’70s, Dave enrolled in college only to drop out to follow a girlfriend down to Guadalajara, Mexico. Though the journey lasted only a few months, it was to be the first of many travels in Latin America and totally altered his world view. Returning to the States for the holidays in 1971, his mother serendipitously left a harmonica in his Christmas stocking and he soon found that he could not quit playing it. He spent the next few years traveling the Southwest and Northwest, working an assortment of jobs (lumberyard worker, fruit picker, plumber’s assistant) – all the time getting deeper into music.