Harry Connick Jr. to perform at Lied Center

Harry Connick Jr. will bring his “New Orleans Tricentennial Celebration” tour to the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18.

Tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. Oct. 2 and will be available here, by phone at 402-472-4747 or at the Lied Center box office, 301 N. 12th St. Students at Nebraska can purchase tickets at a 50 percent discount with a valid NCard. Children 18 and younger are also eligible for half-price tickets.

Connick and his band will perform songs that celebrate his hometown of New Orleans, which turns 300 this year, as well as holiday favorites.

Over the past three decades, Connick has established himself as a musician, composer, actor and television host. Highlights of his music career include the multi-platinum recordings “When Harry Met Sally,” “Blue Light, Red Light (Someone’s There),” “When My Heart Finds Christmas,” “Come By Me” and “Only You.” He has starred in such films as “Dolphin Tale,” “Hope Floats,” “P.S. I Love You,” “Bug” and “Copycat” and has appeared on television on “American Idol,” “Will and Grace,” “South Pacific” and his Emmy Award-winning concert specials. In fall 2016, Connick launched “Harry,” a national daytime television show featuring his touring band, which has earned 11 Daytime Emmy nominations and a Critics’ Choice nomination for best talk show. On Broadway, he received Tony Award nominations as a lead actor in “The Pajama Game” and as a composer/lyricist for “Thou Shalt Not.”

Beyond his entertainment career, Connick has helped New Orleans rebuild after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. He and friend Branford Marsalis conceived of Musicians’ Village, a community in the Upper Ninth Ward. Musicians’ Village provides homes for Katrina-displaced musicians. Its focal point, the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, is an after-school teaching facility for children, performance hall and recording studio for indigent musicians, and gathering place for the community.

The Dec. 18 performance is a GK Platinum artist presentation, made possible in part with support from the Glenn Korff estate. Past GK Platinum artists have included Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth and Audra McDonald.