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April 6, 2006
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SINGER-SONGWRITERS RICHARD SHINDELL AND LUCY KAPLANSKY BRING CONTEMPORARY FOLK MUSIC TO WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY
Acclaimed folk singers Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky will perform together at William Paterson University in Wayne on Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m. in Shea Center.
Shindell collaborated with Kaplansky and Dar Williams to form the group Cry Cry Cry, and issued the self-titled album in 1998. The trio toured in support of their album, but later resumed their solo careers.
Shindell is a singer/songwriter whose songs include a wonderful mix of humor, mystery, and narrative. A native of Lakehurst, New Jersey, he is a former seminary student whose first musical exposure came while playing guitar in the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band alongside the young John Gorka.
Shindell began composing songs during the late 1980s, and earned a word-of-mouth following. After a featured appearance on Christine Lavin's 1991 compilation When October Goes, a year later he recorded his Shanachie label debut, Sparrow's Point. Blue Divide followed in 1994, and in 1997 Shindell resurfaced with his CD Reunion Hill. His solo Somewhere Near Paterson followed in early 2000. Shindell and his family currently live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he recorded his latest album, Vuelta (Koch Records, 2004).
Kaplansky is a New York City-based folk musician known for her solo projects as well as her work on Shawn Colvin's Grammy-winning CD Steady On, on Nanci Griffith's Lone Star State of Mind and Little Love Affairs, and on four of John Gorka's albums.
Her soundtrack credits include singing with Suzanne Vega on Pretty in Pink and with Griffith on The Firm, and several commercial credits, including "The Heartbeat of America" for Chevrolet. For a time, Kaplansky left the musical fast track to work as a clinical psychologist but by the 1990s she was drawn back to music full time.
Kaplansky’s new album The Red Thread marks her fifth recording on the Red House label and it follows the commercial and critical hit Every Single Day, which was awarded Best Pop Album of 2002 by the Association for Independent Music.
Tickets to the show are $26; $24 for senior citizens 65 and older and William Paterson faculty, staff and alumni; and $8 for William Paterson students. For additional information or to reserve tickets, please call the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
NOTE: High resolution, downloadable publicity photographs are available at:
http://ww2.wpunj.edu/publicityphotos/KaplanskyShindell
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