Brian Culbertson
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Aug 24, 2025 8pm
Location
The Carolina Theatre
230 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, N.C., 28202
Details
Over the course of crafting a 29-album catalog and architecting 40 Billboard No. 1 singles as a keyboardist, songwriter and producer, Brian Culbertson has charted his own unique course in music. Label him jazz and he makes a funk record. Call him an R&B artist and he drops an acoustic jazz trio collection. Brand him pop and he creates a 32-minute New Age opus. And you’d be hard pressed to name another instrumentalist of his ilk who can mount an elaborately designed concert production that will keep him on the road for three consecutive months.
Culbertson burst onto the scene in 1994 with a chart-topping album he recorded in his college apartment featuring keyboard-led contemporary jazz tracks. “Long Night Out” landed him a lengthy record deal and signaled that a star was born.
They transformed a church into the city’s next iconic dining destination — while relocating a 120-year-old building to launch restaurant No. 7. Add to that five wildly different, award-winning spots already under their belt, 230 team members to lead and three kids to raise… and you’ve got a whirlwind of chaos, creativity, and culinary ambition.