Just heard of this!:

World Financial Center Presents:
THE AMERICAN BEAUTY PROJECT
HONORS TWO GRATEFUL DEAD LANDMARK ALBUMS
American Beauty and Workingman's Dead
with
Jorma Kaukonen, Ollabelle, Toshi Reagon, The Holmes Brothers, Jen
Chapin,
Dar Williams, The Klezmatics, Tim O'Reagan, Mark Eitzel, Jim Lauderale,
Larry Campbell, Catherine Russell, Andy Statman, Tony Trischka
and more to be announced.

Workingman's Dead Saturday, January 20, at 8:00pm
&
American Beauty Sunday, January 21, at 8:00pm

Free
in the World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York

NEW YORK - Two of the Grateful Dead's greatest albums, American Beauty
and Workingman's Dead, both recorded in 1970, will each be honored with
its own evening when Arts>World Financial Center presents The American
Beauty Project free in the World Financial Center Winter Garden, 220
Vesey Street.

Workingman's Dead, which was recorded in March 1970, will be honored
Saturday, January 20, at 8:00pm by a distinctive roster of
singer-songwriters, bands and instrumentalists when each perform one of
the tracks on the classic album.

The next night, Sunday, January 21, at 8:00pm, another group of singers
and musicians will perform cuts from American Beauty which was recorded
in August and September 1970.

Performing their own arrangements of the Workingman's Dead and American
Beauty songs are Jorma Kaukonen (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane),
Ollabelle, Toshi Reagon, The Holmes Brothers, Jen Chapin, Dar Williams,
The Klezmatics, Tim O'Reagan (The Jayhawks), Mark Eitzel (American
Music Club), Larry Campbell, Catherine Russell, Jim Lauderdale, Andy
Statman, Tony Trischka, and more names to be announced in the months
ahead.

Putting together The American Beauty Project to celebrate 35th
anniversary of these two landmark Grateful Dead albums is Artistic
Director and Producer David Spelman, who was responsible for similar
tributes to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. At last year's Nebraska
Project honoring Springsteen, The Boss himself spent the evening
standing unnoticed with the crowd before jumping on stage for the
finale.

"Both Workingman's Dead and American Beauty were ranked on Rolling
Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, 258 and
262, respectively," said Mr. Spelman. "Each wasextremely innovative at
the time for their fusion of bluegrass, rock, folk and country music."

Workingman's Dead,the band's fourth studio album, was recorded in March
1970, and was voted by readers of Rolling Stone as the best album of
1970, in front of Crosby, Stills and Nash's Déjà Vu and Van Morrison's
Moondance.

American Beautywas recorded between August and September of 1970 and
was released inNovember of the same year. It included instant radio
favorites such as "Truckin'" "Sugar Magnolia" and"Friend of the Devil."

"The acoustic sound and folk/country tunes of Workingman's Dead would
come as quitea shock to many fans, and to the critics as a harbinger of
some sort of conscious movement (alongwith The Band, Dylan and the
Byrds) toward country," wrote Grateful Dead biographer Dennis McNally
in his program notes for the event. Mr. McNally went on to add that:
"as usual with the Grateful Dead, the album's origins were
serendipitous and synchronistic, involving no plan orprogram. Instead,
their swerve to include country songs in their work began quite
accidentally when their lyricist Robert Hunter moved in with the Garcia
family in January 1969 ... In March 1970, they went into the studio to
record Workingman's Dead . Hugely in debt to their record company, they
were forced to be simple and economize, thinking consciously of Buck
Owens' Bakersfield sound. The simplicity served the music perfectly,
and the result was a classic, although not the departure many thought
it was. They'd enlarged their vision, not changed it."

Arts>World Financial Centerserves as the leading showcase in Lower
Manhattan forvisual and performing arts - from the intimate to the
spectacular - by artists either emerging orestablished. Since 1988,
year-round and free to the public, it has presented interdisciplinary
artsprogramming with an emphasis on commissioned works, site-specific
installations and premieres.

All events are free! No tickets required. Seating is first come, first
served. For information,call (212) 945-0505 or click
www.worldfinancialcenter.com.

The American Beauty ProjectMySpace page:
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TONIGHT!!


Thursday, November 16 - showtime 9:00 pm


Honky Tonk Hippies and Stevie Coyle (of the Waybacks)

Last Day Saloon
120 Fifth St. @ Davis St.
Santa Rosa CA

$7 at the door

707-545-2343