GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD'S SHOW Plays The Symphony Space, 4/17

GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD'S SHOW - a multimedia "musical moving storybook" concert experience for all ages - will celebrate the melting of this year's record-breaking snow and welcome the coming of the sun to NYC with a "Welcome Springtime!" show for all ages at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 17 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th St., NYC.

At this performance, the splendid Yellowgold Band will be enhanced with the addition of a string duo and french horn, creating a fuller, richer, "soft-rockin'" sound for Morgan Taylor's story-songs about Gustafer (a friendly fellow who came to Earth from the sun). Performing alongside a large screen displaying vividly colored animations with karaoke-style subtitles, Taylor and the band will welcome springtime with an array of Gustafer seasonal favorites, including "Beard for All Seasons," "Birds," "Getting in a Treetop," and "Pinecone Lovely."

Named "Best Kids' Performer" by New York Magazine, Morgan Taylor developed the Gustafer Yellowgold experience as equal parts pop rock concert and minimally animated movie. Gustafer lives out an explorer's life in a slightly psychedelic version of the Minnesota woods, where he resides in a cottage with his menagerie of friends, including a pet eel, a tuxedo-wearing pterodactyl, and a dragon named Asparagus who inhabits the fireplace and loves corn on the cob. For recreation, Gustafer enjoys jumping on desserts, especially cake.

Gustafer Yellowgold is not just for kids! Possessing an unusual crossover appeal, GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD'S SHOW has performed as the support act for Wilco and The Polyphonic Spree. Gustafer recently made his off-Broadway debut in a new production, Gustafer Yellowgold's Mellow Sensation. Tours to performing arts centers, concert halls, theatres, festivals, museums, libraries, and cinemas have taken Gustafer across the U.S., the U.K., and even to Korea.

Since his creation in 2005, Gustafer Yellowgold has become an international phenomenon, praised by Newsweek as "full of great pop tunes and hand-drawn animation about a li'l fella from the sun." The Los Angeles Times enthused, "Taylor's whimsical, lightly psychedelic world forms an interesting bridge between adult and kids' music." The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Gustafer Yellowgold has made kids' music so cool that teenagers and ultra-hip bands such as Wilco want to get in on the act ... a shiny blend of pop art and pop tunes." Parenting magazine called Gustafer "The coolest little space invader since E.T. ... a hip and trippy sunsation. Parental warning: You, too, will become hooked on the tunes."

Morgan Taylor was a recent Grand Prize-winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. His other activities have included playing bass for The Autumn Defense (John Stirratt and Pat Sansone of WIlco) and a recording project with Tony Award winning songwriter Duncan Sheik.

WHAT: GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD WELCOMES SPRINGTIME!
WHERE: Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th St., NYC
WHEN: Saturday, April 17. 11:00 a.m.
TICKETS: Adults $25. Day of show $27. Children $15. Day of show $15. Members: $20 adults, $10 children.
INFO: (221) 864-5400. www.symphonyspace.org

Visit the Gustafer Yellowgold website at www.gustaferyellowgold.com