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Will Taylor & Strings Attached :: The Songs of Leonard Cohen ::
Friday, January 11, 2008 ::
8:00 p.m. St. Michael’s Episcopal
Church – Austin Saturday, January 12, 2008 :: 8:00 p.m.
1217 Marly Way – Austin Sunday, January 13, 2008 :: 2:00 p.m.
Uptown Marble Theater – Marble Falls |
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Will Taylor & Strings Attached
Though individual members are accomplished soloists, when teamed up
as Strings Attached, the landscape changes completely, as they expand the
featured artist's vision into other-worldly territory, without sacrificing
the intent or spirit of the original work. Will Taylor & Strings Attached continue to create a body of work
that is unique, polished, and captivating, while showcasing individuals of
outstanding vocal and musical talent in the community. Strings Attached has been hailed as one of
the outstanding examples of what makes Austin the “Live Music Capitol of the
World”. :: www.stringsattached.org ::
www.myspace.com/stringsattached :: |
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Will Taylor Molly Venter
:: Guitar, Viola, Violin :: ::
Vocal ::
Shawn Sanders Michael Shay ::
Cello :: :: Vocal, Cello, Guitar :: |
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Stephen Zirkel :: Vocal, Bass, Piano, Trumpet :: Upcoming
Shows ¨
Jan 25-27:
Bob Schneider ¨
Feb 29-Mar 2: Songs of Patty Griffin ¨
May 16-18:
Songs of Paul Simon ¨
Jun 27-29:
Beatles’ Abbey Road ¨
Aug 1-3:
Songs of Strings Attached ¨
Sep 19-21:
Songs in the Key of Life …....(the complete Stevie Wonder album) |
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Production: Jim
Bunch – Sound/Stage Bruce
Meleski – House Manager Sue
Long – Ticket Sales Cindee
Segal – Program Design (www.cindee.org) Phil
Judah – Printing (www.upstages.com) Melanie
Martinez – Photography (http://flickr.com/photos/melaniemartinez) Massage
- Michele R. Smith, RMT (512/215-0495) Massage
- Keith Tuxhorn, LMT (512/342-2508) Michael
W. Yates – Intern
For visualization of music, interactive light, environmental
art, and psychedelic lightshows contact Charles Beard at chbeard@austin.rr.com. Make your concert, party, or other special event something to
behold. |
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Leonard
Cohen is something of a popular
music renaissance man. As well as being a highly polished songwriter and a
spellbinding performer, Cohen is widely acclaimed novelist and poet. He is a
native and currently a resident of Montreal, Canada who has spent a lot of
times overseas. He lived for some time on the Greek island of Hydra but
returned to Montreal to renew what he himself describes as ”neurotic
affiliations.” Similar in approach to chanteurs like Jacques Brel, Cohen has
an understandably large and loyal following among Europeans as well as
Americans. Appropriately, a number of his works have been translated into as
many as 20 languages. Leonard has published two novels, The
Favourite Game and the brilliant comic Beautiful Losers. Also published are
six volumes of Cohen’s poetry: the best-selling Spice Box of Earth, Let Us
Compare Mythologies, Flowers for Hitler, Parasites Of Heaven, Selected Poems,
and Energy of Slaves. Cohen first gained recognition for his writing in
Canada in 1964 through a national Film Board of Canada documentary entitled
Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mr. Leonard Cohen. Since then a CBS-TV program,
"Camera Three," and a film of one of Cohen's European tours,
entitled Bird On A Wire, have been devoted to him. The latter film, a
revealing view of Cohen's touring troupe and the emotional upheaval that
accompanied them throughout Europe, serves as some indication of the special
spot which Cohen and his songs hold in the hearts of his fans. For all this, however, as a writer
Cohen was more of an artistic than a popular success until he began to make
records. He had just returned from an extended stay abroad and was caught
unaware of the expanded expressive possibilities that had developed within
pop music in the mid-sixties. During a stopover in New York he heard Judy
Collins perform in a club and realized that he could write uncompromised
material for her and others like her. His classic "Suzanne" and
"Dress Rehearsal Rag" appeared on Collins In My Life album and
Cohen's reputation as a songwriter had been made. John Hammond, Sr., VP,
Talent Acquisition, Columbia Records, thought Cohen himself should be heard
doing his songs and signed him to an exclusive recording contract with the
label. His debut LP Songs of Leonard Cohen, was released in December, 1967.
Before the completion of the album Cohen’s only flirtation with music was as
a member of a strictly amateur country group in Montreal called The Buckskin
Boys. Thirteen years later, he was busy assuring himself of a spot as one of
the premier singer-songwriter-poets on the music scene. Today, Cohen
discovers that poetry, fiction and music continue to be interconnected. What
he begins as a story may later reveal its true medium as a song, and vice
versa. He had also written music for film. And his songs were used with great
effectiveness in McCabe and Mrs. Miller, the movie directed by Robert Altman.
Following the completion of the New Skin for The Old Ceremony LP, Cohen
embarked on one of his rare US tours, proving that he has lost none of his
charismatic stage quality since his last concerts in America five years
earlier. (from the songbook "New skin for the
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