CONCERT TRIBUTE TO LEAD
BELLY PREVIEWS FEB 4, 2016 CARNEGIE HALL EXTRAVAGANZA
CHARITY CONCERT TO RAISE
FUNDS FOR NYC’S ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN (ABC), PROJECT ALS, AND
SHOOTING STAR CHASE
“The stars came out to pay tribute in an
incredible ensemble of talent. ‘Lead Belly Fest’ was, more than just a concert
– it was a happening: without doubt one of the most diverse and authentic
productions that this venerable hall has witnessed in many a year…” - The London Times
Lead Belly Fest will
make its American debut after a sold out show at Royal Albert Hall this summer
as Walter Trout, Dana Fuchs, Sari, Ali Isabella, and Tom Chapin & Jon
Cobert take the City Winery stage December 8 to pay tribute to the Rock and
Roll Hall of Famer. This show will preview a larger concert at Carnegie Hall,
which will take place in 2016. Click here for a playlist of artists performing
at City Winery’s Lead Belly Fest.
+ Revitalized after a liver
transplant, the “high octane” (UNCUT) Walter Trout is a veteran of Canned Heat
and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Guitar World premiered his new song “Almost
Gone” from his recent release ‘Battle Scars.’ Trout previously performed at
Royal Albert Hall’s inaugural Lead Belly Fest this summer.
+ Tom Chapin and Jon
Cobert will perform together. The NY Times has called three-time GRAMMY winner Chapin
“one of the great personalities in contemporary folk music,” continuing, “Warm
spirit, infectious humor, and sensitive satiric songs.” Jon Cobert has recorded
and played with John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, and Al Green.
+ Just 19 years of age,
Ali Isabella has already captivated the world, with singles in the top 20 on
both the Hotdisc chart in the UK and on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales
Chart. She reached #1 on the Billboard Country Hot Single Sales chart as well,
appearing on FOX 5 Morning TV show Good Day New York and on FUSE News TV and
opening at Wembley Arena in London for Reba McEntire and Lonestar.
+ New Yorker Dana Fuchs’
latest album ‘Songs From the Road’ was recorded at NYC’s Highline Ballroom. A
live show by the Dana Fuchs Band is an assault on all the senses. UK’s Classic
Rock Magazine, who famously declared Dana’s voice as “juke-joint dirty and
illicit, evoking Janis Joplin, Mick Jagger and a cigarette butt bobbing in a
glass of bourbon.”
+ New York Blues Hall of
Fame singer and songwriter Sari is a tornado with blues in her blood. She took
the international blues scene by storm as the powerhouse lead vocalist for
Blues Hall of Fame guitarist Joe Louis Walker. Sari has appeared on CONAN. Most
notable is her work on “Toast to Freedom” for Amnesty International, where she
collaborated with many musical legends including Warren Haynes, Levon Helm, Keb
Mo’, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithful, Rosanne Cash, Donald Fagan, Eric Burdon, and
Carly Simon.
Inspired by Lead
Belly’s love of children, proceeds from the concert will go to NYC’s
Association to Benefit Children (ABC). The Association to Benefit Children
(ABC) is dedicated to bringing joy and warmth to disadvantaged children and
their families through compassionate, sustainable, comprehensive and integrated
services, designed to permanently break the cycles of abuse, neglect, sickness
and homelessness.
ABC’s humane and
innovative programs today include early childhood education for infants, toddlers
and preschoolers, educational advocacy, housing assistance, mental health
services, family support and preservation, crisis intervention, therapeutic
out-of-school and summer day camp programs, youth leadership development and
mentoring.
Project A.L.S. was
founded in 1998, as a non-profit 501(c)3, when Jenifer Estess, a 35-year-old
New York theater and film producer, was diagnosed with ALS. Told at the time of
diagnosis to “max out her credit cards and eat junk food,” Jenifer instead
committed her efforts to making a difference for people with ALS—and producing
treatments and a cure.
Project A.L.S.
identifies and funds the most promising scientific research that will lead to
the first effective treatments and a cure for ALS. The new paradigm for brain disease
research, Project A.L.S. recruits the world’s best scientists and doctors to
work together rationally and aggressively toward a better understanding of the
ALS disease process and, in parallel, better therapeutic strategies.
Shooting Star Chase is a
leading children’s hospice charity caring for babies, children and young people
with life-limiting conditions, and their families. Whether lives are measured
in days, weeks, months or years, Shooting Star is there to make every moment
count. It supports families from diagnosis to end of life and throughout
bereavement with a range of nursing, practical, emotional and medical care.
WHO: Walter Trout, Tom
Chapin & Jon Cobert, Dana Fuchs, Sari, Ali Isabella
WHAT: Lead Belly Fest at
City Winery
WHEN: 10pm, December 8,
2015
WHERE: City Winery, 155
Varick St, NYC
TICKETS: $22-30 via City
Winery or here
