Mannheim Steamroller March 29, 2008

Join millions of new age fans who love this band's hallmark Christmas arrangements and Fresh Aire series!

Experience Grammy award- winning explorations of the four seasons and man's curiosities of the world in this Fresh Aire show featuring 18th century classical rock accompanied by multimedia images, synchronized lighting, and special effects.
Biography

Over his career, Chip Davis has sold nearly 30 million albums.

Of those, more than 20 million albums featured the Christmas music for which Davis group, Mannheim Steamroller, is most famous. In fact, Mannheim Steamrollers 2001 album Christmas Extraordinaire was certified Double Platinum just 8 weeks after its release.

And now the back story...

Louis Davis, Jr. was born into a family of musicians in rural Ohio and began his musical training at age 4, with his grandmother as his first piano teacher. He composed his first piece, a four-part chorale about his dog, Stormy, at age 6. By the time Davis entered the University of Michigan music school, he had found his true musical loves the bassoon and percussion. He graduated in 1969 as a classically trained bassoonist who also played percussion in the famous University of Michigan Marching Band.

After touring with the renowned Norman Luboff Choir, and teaching you people to love music, Davis took a new career path that would change his life forever. He began writing advertising jingles for an Omaha ad agency, including a series of spots about fictional truck driver C.W. McCall and his waitress girlfriend Mavis at the Old Home Filler Up and Keep On Truckin Caf