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If you do it on February 3, you can see me perform with David Byrne in a concert version of Here Lies Love, his multimedia song cycle about the life of Imelda Marcos. THE Carnegie Hall. With David Byrne. About Imelda Marcos. Written by David Byrne with musical contributions from Fatboy Slim. If it's like the premiere we did in Australia (which you can read about here and here), it'll be three singers and David's 4-piece band. Three singers as in David Byrne, Joan Almedilla (the woman who's going to play Imelda Marcos), and me.
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It's a great show -- multimedia, disco lights, archival footage, worldbeat, kick-ass band (including my Miho Hatori bandmates Mauro Refosco and Thomas Bartlett). I had so much fun with David and his band in Australia. This will be the U.S. premiere of the music.
I hope you can come. It's Carnegie Hall! It's once in a lifetime! Tickets are selling really well already. You can check for available tickets on Carnegie Hall's website. Here's the Stern Auditorium seating chart (main stage, holla!). And if you've got good eyes, you might just spot my adorable Mae in the audience.
Read David's journal entry, Carnegie Snowball
David Byrne: Songs from Here Lies Love
Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 8:00pm
Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
$21-$70
David Byrne, Vocals and Guitar
Joan Almedilla, Vocals
Ganda Suthivarakom, Vocals
Mauro Refosco, Percussion
Graham Hawthorne, Drums
Paul Frazier, Bass
Thomas Bartlett, Keyboards
David Byrne and his band perform selections from his new multimedia song cycle written in collaboration with DJ Fatboy Slim—Here Lies Love. The songs invoke the life of Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines, and the servant who raised her.
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