The Piano Guys at Orpheum Theatre

A YouTube success story, American musical group The Piano Guys began as a social media strategy to boost interest in videographer Paul Anderson's piano store of the same name. Anderson, pianist Jon Schmidt, cellist Steven Sharp Nelson and music producer Al van der Beek began recording and uploading professional-quality videos of piano and cello covers and compositions, combining elements of classical, contemporary and rock and roll music. The videos became hugely popular and as of August 2018 the group had surpassed 1.6 billion views on their YouTube channel, with 6.2 million subscribers. To date, the group has released eight studio albums, including a Christmas album, and their first six major-label albums all reached number one on the Billboard Classical Albums and New Age Albums charts. Their most recent album, Limitless, was released in 2018.