LYLE LOVETT & JOHN HIATT
Wednesday, February 13 at 8 PM / Massey Hall
Tickets on sale to FriendsFirst members on Friday, December 7, at 10 AM; to the Public on Tuesday, December 11 at 10 AM
Tickets $69.50 - $45.50 / Call 416-872-4255 / 416-870-8000
Online masseyhall.com / ticketmaster.ca or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Toronto, ON (December 3, 2007)
Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt are two of contemporary music’s greatest and most celebrated singer-songwriters. It is a rare occasion when an audience gets to see such talent as this together on one intimate stage. Lyle and John last appeared together at Massey Hall in November 2005, to a house that sold out months in advance.
Lyle Lovett first appeared on the scene in the late '80s. His recording and performance career has brought music fans great moments of Big Band Texas Swing, tender countrified Acoustic Folk, and always that brilliant Texas-influenced wit. He has even dabbled in Hollywood films, including the much-celebrated “The Player”, directed by Robert Altman, plus film scoring, including a collaboration with Randy Newman. His recording work has been rewarded with Grammy Awards for Country recordings, even though his various recordings have largely been rejected by mainstream country radio. His latest CD is again with his Large Band, and is titled It’s Not Big, It’s Large. For more info on Lyle Lovett, please visit www.lylelovett.com.
John Hiatt, who hails from Indiana, but lives in Nashville (and is a big Predator fan), has a recording career that spans way back to the mid-'70s with his Vinyl Collector’s favourite, Overcoats. Bouncing around several record companies, he did not find real success until his late '80s recording, Bring the Family, which was recorded in four days with his musical friends Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner. This was collectively later known as “Little Village”. This CD offered us the Hiatt classics - “Have a Little Faith in Me”, “Lipstick Sunset”, “Memphis in the Meantime”, and “Thing Called Love”. Its success, both commercially and critically, would provide the foundation for nine more John Hiatt CDs, the most recent being Master of Disaster, released in 2005. Hiatt’s work has been recorded by many other noted artists that include Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Jimmy Buffett, and Iggy Pop. Please visit www.johnhiatt.com for more information.
LYLE LOVETT & JOHN HIATT
Wednesday, February 13, at 8 PM / Massey Hall
178 Victoria Street, Toronto
Tickets $69.50 - $45.50 - Call 416-872-4255 or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office
http://www.masseyhall.com/
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