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Harry Connick, Jr. Keeps a Promise to his Mom

Some performers spend their careers chasing Carnegie Hall. Harry Connick Jr., however, spent much of his career avoiding it.

That isn’t a typo or a misprint. For a musician who has sold more than 30 million albums, won Grammy Awards, starred on Broadway, appeared in films and television, and became one of America’s foremost interpreters of the Great American Songbook, the hallowed Carnegie Hall would seem like a natural destination.

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November 2026

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