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R ock & Roll Hall of Famer Elvis Costello appears at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Sunday Jul 24 at 8:30 p.m. Elvis Costello and the Attractions were formed after auditions recruit 19 year old, Royal Academy of Music stu dent and organist Steve Nason (later re-named, \Nieve\) and late 60s and early 70s, \veteran\ bassist, Bruce Thomas. The Attractions line-up was completed by drummer Pete Thomas, who returned from several years work ing California, much of it with work ing with John Stewart. His U.S. debut was in 1977 at the Old Waldorf, San Francisco, followed by dates at the Whiskey A-Go-Go, Hollywood, Jed's in New Orleans and other cites including, Chicago and New York and concluding at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. During the tour, he shared a bill at the tiny, Capri Theater, Atlanta, with Talking Heads. They made their first U.S. tel evision appearance on \Saturday Night Live’1, substituting for the origi nally booked musical guests, the Sex Pistols. The following year, Elvis Costello made a guest appearance at C.B.G.B's., playing guitar with Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and his pun.k/ new wave career was on. His career has included incorpora tion of diverse musical genre over the years, but is characterized by a lyric writing style that features deft word play. Elvis Costello has followed his musical curiosity in a career spanning more than 30 years. He is perhaps best known for his performances with The Attractions, The Imposters and for concert appearances with pianist Steve Nieve. However, he has also entered into acclaimed collaborations with Burt Bacharach, The Brodsky Quartet, Paul McCartney, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, guitarist Bill Frisell, composer Roy Nathanson, The Charles Mingus Orchestra, record producer and song writer T Bone Burnett and Allen Toussaint. Costello’s songs have been record ed by a great number of artists. The E lv is C o steS» plays W estham p ton B each Perform ing A rts C e n ter This M o n th Gerry LaFemina, ■ and a professor of literature a t Frostburg State in Maryland, fed a group of city poets in a reading at'the Huntington Poets Café this month, list of performers reflects his interest in a wide range of musical styles: Geprge Jones, Chet Baker, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Dusty Springfield, Robert Wyatt, Charles Brown., No Doubt, Solomon Burke, June Tator, Howard Tate, the gospel vocal group The Fairfield Four and the viol consort Fretwork with thé countertenor Michael Chance. In 2003, he bej^n a songwriting partner ship with, his wife, the jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall, resulting in six songs included in her highly success ful album The Girl In The Other Room’. During his career Costello has received Several prestigious honors, including two Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, a Dutch Edison Award with 'Hie Brodsky Quartet for The Juliet letters’, the Nordoff-Robbins Silver Clef Award, a BAFTA for the musicwitten with Richard Harvey for Alan Weasdale’s television drama series ‘G.B.H.’ and a Grammy for “I Still Have That Other Girl\ from his 1998 collaboration with Burt Bacharach, ‘Painted From Memory, Elvis Costello and The Attractions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center is a year- round* community-based arts organi zation, founded in 1997, and is com mitted to providing a greater under standing and appreciation of the arts and meeting the cultural aspiration of the region. It hosts programs in a con verted movie theater at 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach - a build ing that has been part of Westhampton Beach for three genera tions, since Governor Alfred E. Smith was on hand in 1932 for the opening of Prudential's Westhampton Theatre as a movie theatre. For more information visit \ www.whbpac.org. 4 'IjT The Northport Journal * July 21, 2011 Phase mention The Long Islander Newspapers when doing business with our advertisers.
