The Women's Project Honors Laurie Anderson, Joan Osborne & Suzanne Vega in Concert, 3/8

The Women's Project will welcome Laurie Anderson, Joan Osborne, and Suzanne Vega in a one-night-only engagement concert in their Julia Miles Theater. The concert is intended to raise funds for the organization and will take place on March 8.

The concert will also honor the three musicians  with a 2010 Women's Project Women of Achievement Award.  The award is given to exception women in multiple artistic disciplines for their achievements by the theater company each year.  A special dinner prepared by six of the city's top female chefs will follow the concert and awards presentation.

Laurie Anderson is a performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave. She has also invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.

Joan Osborne is an American singer/songwriter who is best known for her song "One of Us," and for  her work with members of The Grateful Dead. She has recorded 10 albums and was featured in the 2002 documentary film, Standing in The Shadows of Motown, and toured with Motown sidemen the Funk Brothers. She and her band accompanied the Dixie Chicks for a national tour in the summer of 2003, during which time she also joined veteran San Francisco jam-rockers The Dead as a vocalist.
During 2005 and 2006, Osborne performed on numerous occasions with Phil Lesh and Friends. In February 2007, she appeared on the Grand Ole Opry. Osborne's latest album, Little Wild One, was released in September 2008. She performs as a guest vocalist on Sgt. Pepper Live, the 2009 album and DVD by Cheap Trick.

Vega is a songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk-inspired music. Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner". The latter was originally an a cappella version on Vega's album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA.

For information on the Women's Project event, call 212-765-1706 or visit www.womensproject.org.