An Evening with Livingston Taylor & Special Guest Chelsea Berry

Livingston Taylor is coming to Newton!  Historic Newton presents "An Evening With Livingston Taylor & Special Guest Chelsea Berry" Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 PM at the 675-seat theatre located inside the architecturally acclaimed Newton North High School, 457 Walnut Street, Newton, MA 02460.  Plenty of free parking is available. Reserved-seat tickets for this fundraising concert are priced at $75 and $45. Tickets are on sale now at http://www.historicnewton.org.  For more information and sponsorship tickets starting at $150 which include VIP seating and after-show reception with Livingston Taylor, call:  617-796-1450.

"An Evening With Livingston Taylor and Special Guest Chelsea Berry" is a fundraiser for the interactive exhibits at the 1734 Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, Historic Newton's new museum set to open in the coming months. In addition, the organization plans to use raised funds to establish exhibition gardens based on the famed Kenrick Nurseries.

Livingston Taylor likes to present emerging artists from his classrooms.  A devoted supporter of exciting young talent, Livingston is now in the studio recording with singer/songwriter Chelsea Berry, and he will showcase her at this concert.  "Chelsea has a voice of remarkable power and control with a joyous soul.  Brave and bright, Chelsea Berry is the real thing," says Livingston.  

Chelsea Berry is a singer/songwriter with incredible edge, power and finesse. Her presence has been described by listeners as “compelling . . . she draws the entire house into her world like moths to a flame.” Born and raised in Alaska, she now makes her home on Boston’s North Shore. While Chelsea frequently supports artists such as Chris Isaak, Livingston Taylor, Chris Smither, Cheryl Wheeler and Marshall Crenshaw, she has begun to develop such a strong following of her own in the Northeast that the shows she headlines have begun selling out regularly.

See this link for photos, bios and musical samples:  http://livtaylor.com/new-noise/.

About Livingston Taylor:

Livingston Taylor picked up his first guitar at the age of thirteen. Who knew that this would signal the beginning of a career that has spanned over forty years and that has encompassed performance, songwriting and teaching.

Born in Boston in 1950, Livingston grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  He is the fourth child in a very musical family that includes Alex, James, Kate and Hugh. At sixteen, Livingston moved back to Boston where he finished high school and began performing in the Boston coffeehouse circuit. At eighteen, he met legendary producer Jon Landau, who later produced Livingston’s first recording for Atlantic Records when he was nineteen.

That first record initiated a creative output that has filled multiple recordings since. Livingston has written most of his music repertoire, including Top Forty hits “I Will be in Love with You” and “I’ll Come Running” — and, recorded by his brother James, “I Can Dream of You,” “Going Round One More Time” and “Boatman” (all on the double Grammy®-winning album Hourglass).

Since those early coffeehouse days, Livingston has never stopped performing, touring with major artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Jimmy Buffett, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.  He also maintains a busy concert schedule on his own, performing an average of 80 shows a year that mostly include his own music, with an occasional cover of folk, rock, a classic Gershwin or something from the best of Broadway. The depth of Livingston’s musical knowledge is belied by his relaxed and comedic on-stage presence. Livingston describes himself as a pop singer and tours solo, playing his guitar and the piano.

Livingston is a full professor at Berklee College of Music, where he has taught a course, Stage Performance,  since 1989. He teaches young artists invaluable lessons learned over the course of an extensive career on the road. The course is one of the most popular at the College, spawning a sequel, Stage Performance II, this year.

About Historic Newton:

Historic Newton encourages inquiry about and exploration of the history of Newton, Massachusetts within the context of the wider American story.  The organization oversees the Jackson Homestead, the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds and preservation of Newton’s Historic Burying Grounds.  Historic Newton also collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits historic artifacts of local significance.  In addition to programs for school groups, HN offers public programs in the form of seminars, workshops, tours and a book club. 

Historic Newton will soon open a new museum and education center at the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds! Through interactive exhibits, the museum will explore issues of land, liberty and leadership by looking at the three distinguished families who lived and worked there over three centuries.  For more information about Historic Newton, go to: http://www.historicnewton.org.