Happy Summer everyone!

We hope you're enjoying the sun as much as we are here at the Livingston Taylor HQ! We're so excited to tell you about all the highly anticipated shows and events coming up in July and August! We are ending the month of June with a wonderful benefit concert taking place in Chittenden, VT, with 100% of net proceeds being donated to the Rutland Community Cupboard, BROC, the Pittsford Food Shelf and other worthwhile causes.

UPCOMING SHOWS

JUNE/JULY

6/28 - Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, VT (with Tod Pronto)
7/7 - Boothbay Opera House, Boothbay Harbor, ME (with Rebecca Loebe)
7/30 - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Goshen, CT

AUGUST

8/5 - Bryn Mawr Gazebo, Bryn Mawr, PA (with Mark Schultz & The Wayne Rangers)
8/11 - Old Whaling Church (Martha's Vineyard Concert Series), Edgartown, MA (with Matt Cusson)
8/18 - Auburn Public Theater, Auburn, NY (with Jesse Ruben)
8/26 - Falmouth Academy, Falmouth, MA

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA RECORDING

Livingston will be travelling to London next week to record (and film) with the BBC Concert Orchestra. He is partnering with Tony Award winner, Bill Elliott, who will be his conductor, keyboard player and musical director.

Bill has recorded with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks, Bette Midler, Smokey Robinson with multiple Grammy, Tony and Emmy award nominations. Bill's reputation and credits on Broadway and in Hollywood is impressive. His friendship with Livingston goes back to when they were in their 20's.

The recording will taking place at the BBC's Miada Vale studio, home for legendary recordings from: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Andrea Bocelli, Nirvana & the Clash.

Please follow Livingston's social media for updates on this exciting project: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Bill Elliott and Livingston

TRUEFIRE PRESENTS LIVINGSTON TAYLOR'S
THE STAGE PERFORMANCE PLAYBOOK

Livingston Taylor’s Stage Performance Playbook draws on 50 years of experience as a touring singer-songwriter and thousands of hours teaching the art and craft of stage performance as a Berklee College of Music professor. There’s simply no one better qualified to guide your rite of passage on your way to becoming a “great” performer.

This indispensable 5 1/2 hour Stage Performance masterclass includes 52 video lessons, 19 stage performance examples, and 11 homework assignments to help you assimilate the principles and make them your own.

You’ll learn how to conquer your obstacles and fears, engage an audience, and elevate your performances every time. You’ll learn how to keep stage fright at bay, how to draw the best playing out of your bandmates, and how to get past a bad flub onstage. He’ll show you how to internalize a beat to create an environment that captures and holds an audience. You’ll learn the value of coherent melodies, clean chords, crisp stage banter, and so much more.

LIVINGSTON TAYLOR'S QUOTE OF THE MOMENT

"I’m inspired by many things. What I like to do is just to listen to the sounds of passing life. The stories of the life experience and then, in order to make the passions, the white hot passions of those stories safe, what we do is then surround them by time and tonality in rhyme and in melody. And in surrounding them with time and tonality, rhyme and melody, we make very white hot passion safe to be close to. This is why when you write it is required that you write with focus and discipline. You do not get to be sloppy if you expect people to be in the proximity of your passion. They will not accept your passion until they are held by your discipline." - Unlocking Connecticut, September 11, 2015

Until next time,

Ralph, Julie and Livingston