Multi-Grammy® Award Winner k.d. lang Performs Works from Newly Released Album Watershed at the Kimmel Center February 24
January 31, 2008
"A modern Sinatra, lang transcends even the finest work the authors offer."
"Few singers command such perfection of pitch. Her voice, at once beautiful and unadorned and softened with a veil of smoke, invariably hits the middle of a note and remains there…She balanced her commitment to the material with humor, projecting a twinkling merriment behind it all."
Musical icon k.d. lang performs works from newly released album Watershed at the Kimmel Center on Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 7:30pm in Verizon Hall. The Canadian singer-songwriter’s illustrious twenty year career has spanned country, torch, and pop soundscapes; shimmering with soft vocals that echo the human experience of intimacy and longing in Grammy® Award-winning hits like "Constant Craving." Watershed is lang’s first self-produced album, and showcases her artistic evolution in a range of works from the up-tempo bluegrass tune "Jealous Dog" to the lush, flamenco inspired harmonies of "I Dream of Spring" and bossa nova rhythms of "Upstream." Her performance will include an all new line-up of band members. Dustin O’Halloran of the indie pop duo Devics opens the concert with an evocative collection of classical piano compositions, as heard on Piano Solos Vol.1 and 2.
"Watershed is like a culmination of everything I’ve done," said k.d.lang, "there’s a little bit of jazz, a little country, a little of the Ingénue sound, a little Brazilian touch. It really feels like the way I hear music, this mash-up of genres, and I think it reflects all the styles that have preceded this in my catalogue."
This concert is the nineteenth concert in the World & Pop Series scheduled for the Kimmel Center Presents 2007/2008 season. The next concert in the series will be Pink Martini on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 8pm in Verizon Hall.
Tickets for k.d. lang are priced at $39, $56, $69 and $80 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.) For group sales call 215-790-5883.
A limited number of $10 tickets are available for every Kimmel Center Presents performance at the Kimmel Center, through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program supported by a generous grant from Wachovia Foundation. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning 2.5 hours prior to curtain time and 11:30am for matinees. Limit one ticket per person.
Canadian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist k.d. lang first established herself as the founder and frontwoman of Patsy Cline tribute band The Reclines in the 1980s, but has since found even greater success as a solo artist. She has been awarded the Canadian Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1985, and received Grammy® Awards for the 1987 hit "Crying" with Roy Orbison and for her 1989 album, Absolute Torch and Twang. In 1992, "Constant Craving" from Ingénue became a worldwide smash hit to much critical acclaim, for which lang was awarded the Grammy® for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2003, she won her fourth Grammy® for her collaboration with Tony Bennett, A Wonderful World. Lang’s 2004 release, Hymns of the 49th Parallel, pays homage to fellow Canadian artists including Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. In addition to her musical talents, lang actively champions gay rights causes. She has performed for and supported many causes over the years, including HIV/AIDS care and research.
Kimmel Center Presents 2007/2008 season is sponsored by Citi. Support for the Mellon Jazz Series comes from The Bank of New York Mellon. The Great Orchestra Series is supported by ARC Wheeler. Additional support is provided by the University of Pennsylvania Health System and American Express. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. Toyota is the Official Vehicle of Kimmel Center Presents Mellon Jazz, Mellon Jazz Up Close and World & Pop.
The Kimmel Center also receives support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The William Penn Foundation, The Wachovia Foundation, Verizon Foundation, PNC Foundation, The Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and the Philadelphia Music Project and Dance Advance, Initiatives of The Pew Charitable Trust administered by The University of the Arts. In-kind support is generously provided by Deloitte. NBC-10 is a Media Partner for Kimmel Center Presents, and additional media sponsors include WDAS, WRTI, WJJZ, Afro-Pop, WXPN and WXPN's Kids Corner 20th Anniversary.
Free in the Plaza programming and subsidized tickets offered to the community and social service groups for $10 are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program, supported by a generous grant from Wachovia Foundation.
KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS SPONSORED BY CITI
Sunday, February 24, 2008 | 7:30pm
Verizon Hall
World & Pop
k.d. lang
Danny Frankel, drums
Danny Clarke, piano and backing vocals
Ian Walker, bass and backing vocals
Josh Grange, guitar and backing vocals
Grecco Buratto, backing vocals
Special guest:
Dustin O’Halloran
FREE AT THE KIMMEL:
Sunday, February 24, 2008 | 6pm
Commonwealth Plaza Stage
TBD
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