Greetings!
It's November! That means falling leaves, everything pumpkin spice and MORE Livingston Taylor shows and projects! Coming up this
Saturday, November 5th, Livingston will be in Northampton, MA to perform at the
BOMBYX Center for Arts & Equity. Next he will be traveling to Bath, ME on
Sunday, November 6th to perform at the
Chocolate Church Arts Center.
On
Friday, November 11th, Livingston will be sharing the stage with fellow folk legend, Tom Chapin at
Cary Hall in Lexington, MA. Then on
Saturday, November 12th he will be at the
Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes, NY. Hope to you see at a show!
NOVEMBER EVENTS
11/5 - BOMBYX Center for Arts & Equity, Northampton, MA (w/ special guest Matt Cusson)
11/6 - Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, ME (w/ special guest Matt Cusson)
11/11 - Cary Hall, Lexington, MA (w/ Tom Chapin)
11/12 - Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes, NY (w/ special guest Matt Cusson)
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THE LIVINGSTON TAYLOR SHOW RE-CAP
ANNOUNCING THE HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS TOUR!
Livingston and Karla Bonoff come Home for the Holidays with a seasonally spiced show that will remind you of what a wonderful time of the year it is.
"Sometimes 1+1 does equal 3.....Karla Bonoff and me, on stage together, lift each other to amazing musical highs. Wrap this pairing up with a Holiday ribbon, and we're in for a truly joyous light-filled evening. Tickets are on sale right now....grab a few and Karla and I will see you in December"....Liv Taylor
Find a date near you below!
12/4 - The Kent Stage, Kent, OH
12/6 - The State Theatre, State College, PA
12/8 - Musikfest Café, Bethlehem, PA
12/9 - Appell Center, York, PA
12/10 - Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
12/11 - The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA
12/15 - Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA
12/16 - Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
12/17 - Crest Theatre, Sacramento, CA
12/20 - Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, OR
12/21 - Edmonds Center For the Arts, Edmonds, WA
12/22 - Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon, WA
TRUEFIRE PRESENTS: LIVINGSTON TAYLOR'S STAGE PERFORMANCE PLAYBOOK
A Stage presence Masterclass for captivating your audience
”Three years in the making, filmed at multiple locations, hundreds of hours piecing it all together — this is an extraordinary TrueFire learning experience. You won’t learn a single new lick or cool chord voicing in this 5 1/2 hour masterclass, but put Livingston’s stagecraft principles to work and your audience will be talking about you all the way home.”
- Brad Wendkos, TrueFire Founder
As music learners, we’re so focused on advancing our skills that we tend to forget that we practice to eventually perform and entertain an audience. Whether you perform for family and friends, play at local open-mic nights, or headline world tours — it's your stagecraft that makes or breaks that all-important connection with the audience.
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.
”What is a performance? Most artists think it's something that's done to an audience, that an audience comes in and they either like it or don't like it. But it's not like that at all. A performance is an exchange of intimacies. An audience will not accept your passion until you have proven your discipline and that’s when you open up the possibility for intimacy with an audience.
The Stage Performance Playbook steps you through dozens of proven, road tested approaches for expressing and exchanging those intimacies with your audience. I’ve included 19 live performances to illustrate how these principles come into play on the stage, in front of a real audience. We’ll also cover off-stage best practices that are just as important.”
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.
Livingston organized the course into focused sections: What Is A Performance, Your Audience, Nervousness, Internalized Time, Lyric & Melody Delivery, Practice, At The Venue, The Flow Of Your Show, Song Introductions, Being On Stage, and After The Show.
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.
You’ll have TrueFire’s intuitive learning tools at your fingertips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace. You’ll be able to loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. We’ve even tabbed and notated all 19 of the song performances!
MORE INFORMATION, COMING SOON!
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Until next time,
Ralph, Julie and Livingston
