Livingston Taylor,Terri Allard Team for Folk Evening

Media Contact:

Kristen Gleason
Director of Marketing
The Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.979.1922 ext. 103
kristen@theparamount.net

For Immediate Release

October 27, 2006

A force on the pop and singer-songwriter music scenes for over 25 years, Livingston Taylor has been called "the ultimate crowd pleaser" (Performing Songwriter Magazine).  Bringing together a laid-back musical approach with an exuberant and charming style of performance, the warm-hearted fun of Taylor’s concerts is rooted in entertaining and intelligent songwriting.  Joining Taylor will be hometown favorite The Terri Allard Trio, who return to The Paramount with a rootsy blend of contemporary country-folk.  The theater’s outstanding acoustics and intimate surroundings will be a perfect setting when Taylor and Allard team up for this concert on Friday, November 10 at 8 pm. 

Born in Boston and raised in Chapel Hill, Livingston Taylor is the fourth of five siblings that include big brother James Taylor.  Taylor’s more than a dozen albums, including his self-titled debut, Liv, Three Way Mirror, Life is Good, and Ink, have yielded hits such as “Carolina Day,” “Get Out of Bed,” “I Will Be in Love with You,” and “First Time Love.”   His most recent album, There You Are Again, was released in January 2006.           

Taylor has won several ASCAP songwriting awards, been named the Outstanding Folk/Acoustic Act by the Boston Music Awards, and been recognized for his contribution to American culture at the Celebration of North Carolina Artists.  He began teaching at Berklee School of Music in the summer of 1989, and was made full professor in 1997. He teaches a course of his own creation entitled "Stage Performance Techniques," something Taylor knows a great deal about from his own extensive touring, which takes him across the country for between 100 and 125 dates each year.                

Terri Allard has the extraordinary talent of capturing the human spirit in her songs.  Rootsy instrumentation and tight harmonies tastefully support Terri's signature smoky alto on songs about love, hope, good times, and sadness, which The Washington Post has said “address the universal themes of love and loss with unusual grace and soul…tender and reflective but never self-indulgent.”  Nominated for several WAMMIES (Washington Area Music Awards) over the past ten years, the Virginia based singer-songwriter won Best Female Country Vocalist in 1999.  She performs at festivals, concert halls and coffeehouses across the U.S. and Canada both solo and with alongside talented sidemen Sonny Layne on upright bass and vocals, and World Champion harmonica player Gary Green.

In December 2005, hometown fans braved an ice storm to hear Allard and her band play at The Paramount, an evening captured on Live From Charlottesville, Terri's fifth CD and first live recording. Unlike typical live recordings, Terri's album features seven new songs -- five originals and two covers of her fan's favorites, including a duet with her father Bill Allard on Randy Newman's “Louisiana.”  Makes No Sense, Terri Allard's fourth recording, produced by Terri and Bruce Hornsby sideman Bobby Read, is a collection of Terri's country-folk originals, including “Anna Carolyn,” written with Mary Chapin Carpenter.  

Seats for the November 10 Paramount performance with Livingston Taylor and The Terri Allard Trio are $29, $24, $21, and $18.   Student rush tickets are available at the Box Office with a valid ID 45 minutes prior to curtain.  Tickets are available online or through The Paramount’s Box Office at 434.979.1333.

For more information about these artists, please visit www.livtaylor.com and www.terriallard.com.