Lincoln Center's 'American Songbook' Concludes with STEW and Heidi Rodewald - March 6

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook ends its 11th season with a special concert by Stew and Heidi Rodewald in the newly revitalized Alice Tully Hall on March 6th at 8:00pm.

Stew rocked Broadway the way it never had before when his musical, Passing Strange, opened in 2008. It won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and made a star out of its writer, Stew, and his writing partner, Heidi Rodewald. Stew and Rodewald return to American Songbook (they performed in the series in 2003) with music from their early career and the band they founded in 1995, The Negro Problem. The group was ironically named to highlight the music industry's problems with an all white band fronted by a black man whose influences were not only Stevie Wonder but also Stephen Sondheim. Stew's discography includes four recordings with The Negro Problem, and another four as Stew, two of which were named Album of the Year by Entertainment Weekly: Guest Host and The Naked Dutch Painter and Other Songs. This Songbook show will include music from Passing Strange as well as new material.

The concert by Stew and Heidi Rodewald is part of the Alice Tully Opening Nights Festival, a two-week series of performances designed to showcase the intimacy of the new, state-of-the-art Alice Tully Hall. The Opening Nights Festival celebrates the remarkable musical accomplishments and voices that define the Hall's legacy and its future. Special festival pricing has all tickets at just $25.

Lincoln Center's American Songbook 2009 - Last Concert

March 6, 2009

Alice Tully Hall

65th Street & Broadway

Friday, March 6, 2009, 8:00 pm

Alice Tully Hall

Stew

with Heidi Rodewald

Marty Beller, drums

Christian Cassan, percussion and drums

Christian Gibbs, guitars

Joe McGinty, keyboards

Jon Spurney, keyboards and guitar

de'Adre Aziza, Elisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Rebecca Jones, vocals

This performance will take place in Alice Tully Hall as part of the Alice Tully Hall Opening Nights Festival.

Tickets: $25

All American Songbook shows do not have an opening act, so this show will begin promptly at 8:00pm.

TICKETS for the general public can be purchased online at Lincoln Center's website LincolnCenter.org, via CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, at the Alice Tully Hall box office or the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office.

Since it was launched in 1998, American Songbook has been dedicated to celebrating the extraordinary achievements of the popular American songwriter from the turn of the 20th century to the present day. Spanning all styles and genres from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecticism of today's songwriters working in pop, cabaret, rock, folk and country, American Songbook traces the history and charts the course of the American song from its past and current forms to its future direction. American Songbook also showcases the outstanding interpreters of popular song.

Artists who have appeared on the American Songbook series include Andy Bey, Betty Buckley, Ann Hampton Callaway, Calexico, Liz Callaway, Neko Case, Rosanne Cash, Michael Cerveris, Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Cincotti, Eric Comstock, Victoria Clark, Mos Def, Christine Ebersole, Sutton Foster, Mary Cleere Haran, Darius de Haas, Joe Henry, Fred Hersch, Jane Krakowski, Judy Kuhn, LaChanze, k.d. lang, Bettye LaVette, Rebecca Luker, Patti LuPone, Nellie McKay, Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, Audra McDonald, Lori McKenna, Jane Monheit, Megan Mullally, Kelli O'Hara, Tonya Pinkins, John Pizzarelli, Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Steve Ross, Stephin Merritt with The Magnetic Fields, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bernadette Peters, Jimmy Scott, Patti Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Billy Stritch, Elaine Stritch, The Fountains of Wayne, They Might Be Giants, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Deborah Voigt, Lillias White, Dar Williams, David Yazbek and John Lloyd Young. The series has also presented concerts highlighting the music of composers and lyricists such as Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Harold Arlen, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Jason Robert Brown, WIlliam Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein, John Bucchino, Michael John LaChiusa, Cy Coleman, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Frank Loesser, Andy Razaf, Richard Rodgers, Arthur Schwartz, Duncan Sheik, Stephen Sondheim, Stew, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Strouse, Jule Styne, Jimmy Van Heusen, and David Zippel.