Holland & Coots
Brian Holland, piano
Danny Coots, drums
Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 4PM
Ticket: $60

They’re back!!!! Grammy award-winning Holland and Coots return to Silo Hill to celebrate the Series’ 10th anniversary season. With their unique, sometimes quirky, and always entertaining interpretations of classic American music, this dynamic duo kicks off our season with a special tribute to the melting pot of composers and lyricists—Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin, Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, and more.

Check out a brief highlight from Holland and Coots’s Steinway at Silo Hill performance in October 2021.

They romp with great grace and power… You won’t find players who are more deft at fast tempos… they work together splendidly as a telepathic team.
Jazz Lives
swinging, spirited and pure fun!
The Syncopated Times

Brian Holland

Brian Holland, internationally renowned pianist, composer, recording artist, and entertainer, enjoys a music career spanning more than four decades as well as spanning the globe sharing his love and talent for all forms of American music. After spending his formative years playing in clubs throughout his home state of Indiana, Brian's career flourished when he discovered the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. In 1999, he won his third title and was retired as "undefeated."

Brian has played with some of the hottest jazz bands in the US—Holland-Coots Jazz Quintet, Titan Hot Seven, Wally's Warehouse Waifs, Holland Rhythm Company, and B.A.D. Rhythm.  He is applauded for his creative musical interpretations in various musical genres--Jazz, Ragtime, Stride, Swing, Boogie Woogie and Blues.

With multiple solo and ensemble recordings to his credit, Brian garnered a Grammy nomination for his work with Bud Dresser on their album, "Ragtime-Goodtime-Jazz." Brian serves as Artistic Director of the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival and Co-Artistic Consultant for the Monterey Jazz Bash by the Bay.

When not on the road, Brian enjoys spending time at home in Nashville with his wife Amy and their two goldendoodles, Phoebe and Charlie.

Danny Coots

It was 1964 in upstate New York when Danny Coots began playing drums at the tender age of 6 years old. From there, he went on to study percussion with Nick Baffaro, Rich Holly, Alan Koffman and Jim Petercsak. Attending Crane School of Music and St. Lawrence University, Danny moved on to serve on the music faculties at St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Potsdam State Universities. He continued performing, traveling to more than 100 countries with such musical luminaries as David Amram, Ray Shiner, Daniel Pinkham, Herb Ellis, Will Alger, Jack Mayhue, Speigle Wilcox, Mimi Hines, Phil Ford, Bob Darch, Pearl Kaufman and Arthur Duncan. 

Danny now calls Nashville home where he joined the Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band in 1996 and helped found The Titan Hot Seven. When not performing live, he spends endless hours in music studios in Nashville, New York, and LA playing on more than 160 recordings, one of which won a Grammy in 2005. He has recorded with such musical powerhouses as Dick Hyman, Rebecca Kilgore, Vince Giordano, as well as Bucky and John Pizzarelli—to name just a few.