Performing a benefit concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night (May 12) at the Fox Theatre, according to Kid Rock was "the best drunk move I ever made," have received the call while he was enjoying some post-show libation backstage in Louisville during the spring of 2011.
On paper it certainly looked a little...screwy.
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Worlds collided at the Fox Theatre on Saturday night.
Fans in tuxedos mixed with fans in jeans and T-shirts. Beethoven ran up against "Bawitdaba." And Leonard Slatkin, the music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, went head-to-head with Kid Rock, as Rock conducted his own version of the DSO, his Twisted Brown Trucker band.
It was all part of Rock's fundraiser for the DSO, the idea for which was hatched more than a year ago.
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The Detroit Symphony's fundraiser concert with Kid Rock on Saturday night at the Fox Theater rocked the house and generated $1 million for the DSO.
Shortly after 8 p.m., Rock hit the stage at the Fox dressed in a tuxedo and wearing a fedora for his performance with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. DSO conductor Leonard Slatkin, in a nod to Rock, sported his own fedora.
Read the full article at DetroitNews.com.
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Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s The Joint played host to Kid Rock, Thursday night and the sold-out audience was not disappointed.
Robert James "Bob" Ritchie or Kid Rock as he has became known burst upon the scene back in the early 1990’s thanks to MTV’s Spring Break coverage and has not slowed down. Back then it was much more a hip-hop/rock infused sound that was all the rage. Since then Kid has found a way to keep himself current and not die away as other musical trends have throughout his 20 plus years in the industry.
His music, which now crosses
