ELO II's Parthenon Huxley

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Date: October 15, 2016

Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Sponsor: Little Washington Theatre
Venue: The Theatre at Washington, Virginia
Where: 291 Gay St

About:

$25 - Adults $10 - Under 18 Reserved Seating Musician, singer, songwriter and producer Parthenon Huxley is known for his solo albums and for his involvement in ELO Part II and The Orchestra, both of which are latter-day offshoots of the 1970s-80s symphonic rock band Electric Light Orchestra. His dozen albums are packed with meaningful songs featuring his "gold dust voice" [Mojo Magazine] and a curio cabinet's worth of cool guitar sounds. Hux's first single, “Buddha, Buddha," caused Rolling Stone to gush, "You could land a marlin with these hooks!" His albums Sunny Nights, P. Hux "Deluxe" and Homemade Spaceship all received Album of the Year awards. "I Loved Everything" from the album Purgatory Falls climbed to #1 on Rolling Stone's Exclusive Download Chart. Hux teamed with ELO members Bev Bevan, Kelly Groucutt, Mik Kaminski and Lou Clark (as well as American singer/keyboardist Eric Troyer) in 1998 and began touring the world. The experience broadened Hux's horizons as a professional musician and sent him to dozens of interesting countries including Chile, Russia, Dubai, Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ecuador, Mexico and of course all over the UK and USA. Hux made his mark as a producer and collaborator in 1993 with Mark Everett of Eels, when Everett was a solo artist known as E. The first song the pair wrote together ("Hello Cruel World") became a Top Ten Alternative hit. Hux scored again when he produced and wrote with Kyle Vincent. Their song "Wake Me Up (When The World's Worth Waking Up For)" hit number one in several markets and set a record for "bubbling under" the Billboard Hot 100 longer than any song in history.

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