Livingston Taylor w/ Adam Ezra

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Norfolk

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Fri, February 01, 2019
Norfolk, CT
Show: 8 PM

Ticket INFO

Member Presale: 9/24/18 06 AM
Public Onsale: 9/27/18 06 AM

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GENRE

Folk

Like his brother James, Livingston Taylor is a singer, songwriter and musician of the highest caliber. Every song has a story and like all great troubadours, Liv will delight you with a show that mixes powerful songs, a golden voice, amazing musicianship and tales from a career that was born in the 60’s (so you can imagine the stories, right ?)

Livingston Taylor

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www.livtaylor.com

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Artist Bio

Livingston Taylor picked up his first guitar at the age of 13, which began a 50-year career that has encompassed performance, songwriting, and teaching. Born in Boston and raised in North Carolina, Livingston is the fourth child in a very musical family that includes Alex, James, Kate, and Hugh. Livingston recorded his first record at the age of 18 and has continued to create well crafted, introspective, and original songs that have earned him listeners worldwide.

From top-40 hits “I Will Be in Love with You” and “I’ll Come Running,” to “I Can Dream of You” and “Boatman,” the last two recorded by his brother James, Livingston’s creative output has continued unabated. His musical knowledge has inspired a varied repertoire, and he is equally at home with a range of musical genres—folk, pop, gospel, jazz—and from upbeat storytelling and touching ballads to full orchestra performances.

Livingston has never stopped performing since those early coffeehouse days, shared the stage with major artists such as Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Buffett, and Jethro Tull, and he maintains a busy concert schedule, touring internationally. He is a natural performer, peppering his shows with personal stories, anecdotes and ineffable warmth that connect him to his fans. His relaxed on-stage presence belies the depth of his musical knowledge, and fans might just as often be treated to a classic Gershwin or something from the best of Broadway.

Livingston is a full professor at Berklee College of Music, where he has taught a Stage Performance course since 1989. He teaches young artists invaluable lessons learned over the course of an extensive career on the road; the course is consistently voted the most popular at the College. Former students include Charlie Puth, Liz Longley, and Gavin DeGraw. His book, Stage Performance, released in 2011 offers those lessons to anyone who is interested in elevating their presentation standards to professional standards.

Livingston's 50th year of making music was celebrated by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, both declaring January 18, 2017 "Livingston Taylor Day". A documentary film entitled "Livingston Taylor: Life is Good" was released in 2018 at national and international film festivals. It has garnered many awards, nominations, and accolades, including The Van Gogh Award for the Feature Documentary category at the Amsterdam International Film Festival. The film is currently available to the public on Amazon. Click here to watch the trailer.

In February 2019, Livingston released "The Best of LIVe - 50 Years of Livingston Taylor Live". This album features 11 song selections from his upcoming "LIVe - Livingston Taylor Live" Box Set. Upon release, the album was ranked in the top 10 and his song "Good Friends" was #2 on the Folk DJ chart.

In March 2019, the American Public Television special "Livingston Taylor Live from Sellersville: Songs and Stories" began broadcasting on PBS stations across the country. Click here to to watch the trailer.

"LIVe - 50 Years of Livingston Taylor Live" was released in July of 2019. It features 87 never-been-released recordings from live shows from 1969 through 2016. It also includes the documentary film "Livingston Taylor - Life is Good" and a 54-page commemorative photo book with notes and stories from Livingston. A real treasure for life-long Livingston Taylor fans.

Adam Ezra Group

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www.adamezra.com

❖He takes a month out of each year to visit the living rooms of his fans around the
country…
❖ His band and nonprofit organization RallySound host a free festival every
summer that raised $151,000 for homeless veterans in 2024…
❖ He live-streamed for 500 nights in a row during the pandemic…
❖ They co-produced an album with 163 fans…

If you haven’t connected with Adam Ezra Group yet, these are just a few examples to
help you understand how this underground, Americana songwriter and his bandmates
seem to have popped out of nowhere, establishing a connection with their fans unlike
any other, and are suddenly selling out theaters throughout the Northeast.

Adam Ezra will joke with you that while the “nowhere” part might be accurate, nothing
has ever just “popped” for this folk musician, activist. Without resources, connections,
or any kind of clue how the music world works, Ezra began playing shows over 20 years
ago. When music venues wouldn’t hire him, he played bars, bookstores, fields, and
parking lots, often raising money for causes he cared about; a practice that grew into his
nonprofit organization RallySound. “We’d play 5 hours a night,” Adam reminisces, “more often than not, in danger of outnumbering the audiences we were playing for…”

So how did this band operating so far outside the traditional music world come to win
New England Music Award’s “Americana Act of the Year” in 2023? What could have
happened to inspire John Oates to call Adam and invite him to begin a songwriting
friendship that would lead to John producing their latest release and co-write, “Hold
Each Other Now”? What happened to catch the attention of The Wallflowers, who
recently invited AEG to join them on their spring tour, or SPIN Magazine who recently
proclaimed, “This Independent Underground Folk Band Is Blowing Up Without Selling
Out”?

If you ask Adam, he’ll tell you:
“One person at a time, over many years and thousands of shows, decided to turn their
heads to listen. One person at a time decided to share our music with folks they care
about. That’s always been our story. It’s no fairytale, but it sure makes me proud and
humbled when I look out from the stage to watch theaters full of people singing along to
our music.”

These days you’ll find Adam and his bandmates, Corinna Smith (Fiddle), Poche Ponce
(Bass), and Alex Martin (Percussion), constantly out on the road. If you look at their
tour schedule now, you can buy tickets to see them at festivals, rock venues, and
theaters around the country, but you will also see their tour continuously peppered with
activism and grassroots events; a testament to an artist who will never forget where he
came from, and whose mission is about much more than music.

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