Visionary music producer Hal Willner, who has brought three of his epic, live multi-artist explorations of a single songwriter’s work to Celebrate Brooklyn (Came So Far for Beauty: An Evening of Leonard Cohen Songs Under the Stars, 2003; Dream Comfort Memory Despair: The Songs of Neil Young, 2004; and I Count The Tears: Songs and Journals of Doc Pomus, Hitmaker, 2007), commandeers BRICstudio for a week of sessions to prepare for a 2008 celebration of the music of acoustic R&B pioneer Bill Withers.

Creative Advisor: To be announced
Commissioned by the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival


HAL WILLNER

THE BILL WITHERS PROJECT

THURSDAY
May 8 @ 8PM

SUNDAY
May 11 @ 7PM

"No one puts on a better tribute concert than Hal Willner...a sympathetic and generous listener with an almost preternatural ability to match performer to song, and a Rolodex to back it up." - Variety




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