Friday, January 24th at the Palm Springs Cultural Center!
SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES Series presents
An Evening with JIMMY WEBB
Legendary multi-Grammy Award-winning Songwriter & Musician
Artist Meet and Greet: 5:30pm • Showtime: 7pm
Jimmy Webb, America’s Songwriter, has written songs that transcend generations and genres – think “Wichita Lineman,” “MacArthur Park,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” and “Didn’t We.” This Motown-trained composer writes all of his own lyrics and music and is the only hitmaker to have scored songs on the Pop, Country, R&B, Rap, Disco and New Age charts.
During this Evening with Jimmy Webb, audiences will hear this multi-Grammy Award winner’s songs and experience his insightful and often humorous stories about his work with Glen Campbell, Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt (“Still Within the Sound of My Voice”), Art Garfunkel (“All I Know”), The Fifth Dimension (“Up, Up and Away”), The Highwaymen (“The Highwayman”), Kanye West (“Famous” features Webb’s “Do What You Gotta Do”), and more.
Jimmy Webb is the author of the memoir, The Cake and the Rain, and the “bible” of songwriting, Tunesmith: The Art of Songwriting.
In 2019 Webb released a piano-only CD, SlipCover, featuring some of his favorite songs from his contemporaries; Billy Joel, Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones and more.
Currently, “MacArthur Park,” written in 1967 by Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jimmy Webb, is featured in the climactic wedding scene moment in the blockbuster horror-comedy film, "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice". Beetlejuice (Keaton) gets main character Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) to the altar. She reluctantly agrees to marry him to save her daughter, Astrid Deetz’s (Jenna Ortega) life. A huge cake topped with slimy green icing is rolled out and then … cue “MacArthur Park!’ “MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark / All the sweet, green icing flowing down,” sings Harris as maniacal fun ensues with the possessed wedding guests dancing around the cake with oozing icing, taking turns lip-syncing to the entire song.
“… A night with Jimmy at the keys is not unlike getting to hear George Gershwin or Cole Porter live. It’s hard to believe one guy could have written all these amazing songs…if you get a chance to see him live, grab it...” – Paul Zolo, American Songwriter Magazine
"At an age when other singers are losing their voices, Mr. Webb finds his mercurial, unguarded, singing…attaining the gritty authority of a soft hearted country outlaw’s…Mr. Webb is still at the top of his game." – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
WITH SPECIAL GUEST OPENER
Winner of NBC's The Voice - Singer & Songwriter
ALISAN PORTER!
Ticket Prices:
ARTIST CIRCLE
Price: $125.00 - Front Rows Only (limited seating) includes Artist Meet & Greet, and a copy of "Jimmy Webb: Live and at Large" CD (one per couple)
VIP SEATING
Price: $100.00 - VIP Section (limited) with best views of Stage/Artist
MAIN SEATING
Price: $75.00 - Seating with great view of Artist/Stage
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