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Santa Monica High
601 PICO BLVD.
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Randy Newman
Friends of The Sheldon Benefit
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 8:00 PM

The Friends of The Sheldon present Randy Newman, Friday, February 25, 2011 at 8 p.m. for the Winter Friends’ Benefit concert. Proceeds from this special evening benefit Sheldon Educational Programs, which serve over 20,000 St. Louis area students each year.

With a sardonic wit and tongue-in-cheek look at modern society, Academy Award-winning pianist, composer and singer Randy Newman has become one of today’s most respected social satirists and composers. From hits such as “Short People” and “I Love L.A.,” to original movie soundtracks for “Monsters Inc.,” “Seabiscuit,” “The Natural,” “Cars,” “Toy Story” and more, the sharp-witted performer combines pop, rock, R&B and blues music to create a sound all his own.

In addition to winning an Academy Award, Newman is the recipient of two Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards and the Governor’s Award from the recording academy. Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.

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Venue:
The Sheldon Concert Hall
Sheldon Concert Hall 3648 Washington Road
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Jazztronaut launched the VW Spring Sessions in 1998. Now a key event in the annual calendar, this nationwide event features around 30 concerts spanning popular jazz, Latino, Afro-cuban, pop, world music and chanson. The Palais des Beaux-Arts and Ancienne Belgique host gigs in Brussels. During this three-month long festival, the greatest artists in their field descend on Belgium in a series of top-notch concerts.

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Brussels, Belgium

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Øya Festival, Field Day and Club NME bring you a mix featuring hotly tipped Norwegian and UK acts. New Nordic talents Lucy Swann and Team Me will join Not Squares.

Experimental trio Not Squares hail from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They have a unique approach to playing live. When starting out recording, the band tried to ‘capture’ their live performance and opted instead for experimenting with programming synth lines, routing them through guitar pedals, and having fun with the vocals. The result is a sparkling new debut album Yeah OK out now Dublin’s Richter Collective.

Oslo born Lucy Swann has distinguished herself from the rest of the pack by her expressive vocal abilities and her strong live performances. In 2010 she released her critically acclaimed debut album “La Petite Mort” which saw her compared to the likes of Kate Bush and Beyonce. Aftenposten (top Norwegian broadsheet) extolled her to be “…one of the freshest, catchiest voices in Norwegian pop music in a very long time.” Lucy is also set to play the Brighton Great Escape Festival this year.

“Weathervanes and Chemicals, is really, really rather wonderful. Pitched somewhere in between Jonsi and Arcade Fire, it’s about as heart-warmingly lush as it gets.” say NME Magazine about Team Me. If you believe bloggers and journalists all around the world, Team Me is one of the hottest newcomers of 2011. It all started out as an accidental success when Marius D. Hagen and his private, little side project Team Me ended up in the finals of NRK P3´s (Norwegian National Radio) Best new band/song contest. The band are set to play Great Escape this year.

Tickets for this event are available from the venue box office, and can be purchased at face value if payment is made in cash.

Venue:
KOKO
1a Camden High Street
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