The Flaming Lips have just announced via Twitter that they will join the star-studded lineup to honor David Bowie at Carnegie Hall on March 31 and at Radio City Music Hall on April 1.
Previous confirmed artists performing at the benefit shows include Mumford & Sons, Blondie, Michael Stipe, the Pixies, Bette Midler, The Roots, some of Bowie’s most recent and old time collaborators including Donny McCaslin, Tony Visconti, and more. Both concerts are sold-out.
Full current lineups below. More names to be announced soon on Twitter via @michaeldorf and @musicof, and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/musicof/. Visit the musicof.org site for more details and updates.
Current March 31 Carnegie Hall lineup:
The Flaming Lips
Debbie Harry
Pixies
Michael Stipe
Cyndi Lauper
Laurie Anderson
Bette Midler
Cat Power
The Roots
Perry Farrell
Bettye LaVette
Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart
Jakob Dylan
The Mountain Goats
Robyn Hitchcock
Holy Holy
Current April 1st Radio City Music Hall lineup:
The Flaming Lips
Blondie
Pixies
Mumford & Sons
Michael Stipe
Bette Midler
Jherek Bischoff, Amanda Palmer & Anna Calvi
Cat Power
Perry Farrell
The Roots
Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart
The Polyphonic Spree
Jakob Dylan
Donny McCaslin Group w/ Mark Guiliana, Jason Lindner, and Tony Visconti
Holy Holy
Tony Visconti, the Grammy-winning producer who worked on 13 of Bowie’s albums including his last one, will also serve as leader of the house band Holy Holy and as the shows musical director. Holy Holy features Visconti on bass and Woody Woodmansey on drums, both original members of The Spiders from Mars.
The Music of David Bowie concerts will benefit the following organizations: Young Audiences New York, Little Kids Rock, Church Street School of Music, The Center For Arts Education, TON, Grammy in the Schools and the D’Addario Foundation. Over one million dollars have been raised to date by Dorf’s annual Carnegie shows.
Michael Dorf is uniquely suited to create the impressive and eclectic rosters he assembles each year as a founder of two seminal NYC music venues: the Knitting Factory, which he started in 1987 and sold in 2002, and City Winery, the venue he founded in 2008 in NYC, that now has locations in Chicago and Nashville, and will expand to Atlanta and Boston this year. For nearly thirty years, he has programmed for stages across the globe.
Working alongside him as an Associate Producer for the show is Shlomo Lipetz, City Winery’s National Programming Director. For the past 8 years, Lipetz has been overseeing the musical programming in all of the City Winery’s locations.
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