New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Nonesuch Records) Emmylou Harris will be honored by an extraordinary collection of musicians in 'The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration' at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, on Saturday, January 10, 2015. The concert event taping will feature performances by: Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Iron & Wine, Shawn Colvin, Sara Watkins, Kris Kristofferson, Sheryl Crow, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mavis Staples, Martina McBride, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Trampled By Turtles, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Shovels & Rope, Joan Baez, and Milk Carton Kids. Harris will take the stage to perform with a number of special guests throughout the night. Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Ticket pre-sales begin today at ticketmaster.com using the password "songs," and go on sale to the general public this Friday, November 7, at 10 AM EST.
Grammy Award winners Don Was and
Buddy Miller will serve as music directors that will lead an all-star band backing the performers at this concert event taping. Keith Wortman is the creator and executive producer of the show along with Harris' manager Ken Levitan.
"Emmylou Harris and her songs have inspired music fans and musicians all over the world," said Was. Miller added, "I have been blessed to be both a dear friend and music partner of Emmy's, and look forward to an extraordinary night of music." Wortman says: "I am privileged to produce a concert event of this magnitude that honors an artist as special and important as Emmylou Harris. This will be one of those nights where every fan wishes they were in the building."
For all the show details, visit the official show website at songsofemmylou.com.
A 13-time Grammy winner - including a 2014 Grammy for Best Americana Album with Rodney Crowell for the Nonesuch Records release Old Yellow Moon - and Billboard Century Award recipient, Emmylou Harris's contribution as a singer and songwriter spans 40 years. She has recorded more than 25 albums and has lent her talents to countless fellow artists' recordings. In recognition of her remarkable career, Harris was inducted into the Country
Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
Harris is known as much for her eloquently straightforward songwriting as for her incomparably expressive singing. Admired through her career for her talent as an artist and song connoisseur, Harris shook up country radio in the 1970s, and established herself as the premiere songwriter of a generation selling more than 15 million records and garnering 13 Grammy Awards, three CMA Awards, and two Americana Awards.
Harris is one of the most admired and influential women in music. She has recorded with such diverse artists as
Linda Ronstadt,
Daniel Lanois, Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, Ryan Adams, Beck, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams,
Lyle Lovett and most recently Rodney Crowell. Few artists have achieved such honesty or have revealed such maturity in their writing. Forty years into her career, Harris continues to share the hard-earned wisdom that-hopefully if not inevitably-comes with getting older, though she's never stopped looking ahead.
