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September 14, 2006
AIMEE MANN PERFORMS INTIMATE ACOUSTIC CONCERT AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY ON SEPTEMBER 23
Singer and songwriter Aimee Mann will perform an intimate acoustic concert at William Paterson University in Wayne on Saturday, September 23 at 8 p.m. in Shea Center as part of the University’s new Vistas series. David Ford, British singer-songwriter, will open the concert.
Mann’s two-and-a-half-decade career began with the punk band, Young Snakes. In 1983, she co-founded the new wave band, ‘Til Tuesday, which achieved success with the title song on its first album, Voices Carry. The song won the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. The group released two more albums, Welcome Home and Everything’s Different Now, before Mann’s departure. In 1993, Mann went solo with the release of her album, Whatever.
Mann contributed eight songs to the soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 motion picture, Magnolia. The song, “Save Me,” which she performed on the Academy Awards show and which closes the film, received Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy nominations.
Recent releases include The Forgotten Arm, her 2005 self-described concept album tracking the lives of a boxer and his lover who meet in the 1970s and are on the run. The album highlights the literary quality in Mann’s songs—sharp, spare, short stories set to music.
Scheduled for an October 31 release is Mann’s new full-length Christmas album, One More Drifter in the Snow. Featuring an original song written by Mann and bassist Paul Bryan, who also produces the project, the album includes covers of Christmas standards.
Admission prices range from $35 to 42. For additional information, please call the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
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