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Wednesday Evening, February 27, 2013, at 8:30

Kathy Mattea

Bill Cooley , Guitar Eamonn O’Rourke , Fiddle, Mandolin, and Vocals David Spicher , Bass and Vocals

This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.

Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher; and Amy & Joseph Perella. Additional corporate support is provided by Bank of America and PVH Corp. Wine generously donated by William Hill Estate Winery, Official Wine of Lincoln Center. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. The Allen Room Please make certain your cellular phone, at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall pager, or watch alarm is switched off. 02-27 Mattea:GP 2/13/13 3:59 PM Page 2

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Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Upcoming American Songbook Events Songbook is provided by The DuBose and Dorothy in The Allen Room : Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, TopPatch, Inc. , Jill and Irwin Cohen, The G & A Thursday Evening, February 28, at 8:30 Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Lost in the Trees Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. Friday Evening, March 1, at 7:30 and 9:30 Public support is provided by the New York State The Songs of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey Council on the Arts. with Alice Ripley, Brian d’Arcy James, and Idina Menzel * Artist catering is provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com . Saturday Evening, March 2, at 8:30 Ingrid Michaelson * MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center . The Allen Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center . Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.

United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Upcoming American Songbook Events Center . in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse :

WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Friday Evening, March 29, at 8:00 Lincoln Center . Lindsay Mendez & Marco Paguia

William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Saturday Evening, March 30, at 8:00 Lincoln Center . Meow Meow

Friday Evening, April 5, at 8:00 Cristin Milioti *

Saturday Evening, April 6, at 8:00 Green Sneakers, for Baritone, String Quartet, Empty Chair, and Piano Ricky Ian Gordon , Composer Jesse Blumberg , Baritone Voxare String Quartet

The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse is located at 165 West 65th Street, Tenth Floor.

* Limited availability

For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program information.

We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the per - formers and your fellow audience members.

In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 02-27 Mattea:GP 2/13/13 3:59 PM Page 3

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tunes that move her at folk gatherings, and Meet the Artists rounds out her repertoire through extensive research. She’s always had a profound respect for traditional folk music—her ances - tors played it, and in college she even took R E

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D There just isn’t a template for a career like Twice named Female Vocalist of the Year by Kathy Mattea’s. Her mainstream accom - the Country Music Association, Kathy plishments have already earned her a place Mattea carved out a role for herself in the in the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, late 1980s and 1990s as a sensitive yet and, never one to tread water creatively, energetic artist , at ease both with country she’s made a gracefully daring leap into the tradition and free-ranging innovation. The roots-honoring traditional folk world. For West Virginia native won her first Grammy more information, please visit mattea.com. in 1990, earning Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her moving “Where’ve You Been,” co-written by Don Henry and Ms. Mattea’s husband, Jon Vezner. With close to 30 Top Forty country hits —including 15 Top Tens and four Number One entries —five gold albums , and a platinum-selling greatest Bill Cooley hits compilation, she is among the most successful women in the genre’s history, A native of Santa Barbara, California, Bill yet her creative spirit has led her to explore Cooley (guitar) is a stalwart Nashville vet - musical territory extending well beyond its eran. After working with Merle Haggard in confines. California in the early ’80s , he moved to Nashville in 1985, and has toured and An early spokesperson and advocate for recorded with Reba McEntire, Alan AIDS awareness and research, Ms. Jackson, and Hal Ketchum. Mr. Cooley has Mattea’s long history of activism has led played guitar for Kathy Mattea on stage her to bring public attention to several and in the studio for the past 20 years. As current environmental issues, including a songwriter he’s had his songs recorded global warming and some mining practices by Mattea and McEntire, among others. in her native Appalachia. The work and the music joined together in her 2008 CD, Mr. Cooley’s first CD, Unravel’d , was Coal , featuring songs from the coal country released in 1997 and nominated for and culture of “her place and her people.” Instrumental Album of the Year at the Nashville Music Awards. His follow-up CD, She delved even deeper into her A Turn in the Road , was released in 2004. Appalachian heritage with Calling Me Home , Mr. Cooley was part of the core band that released by Sugar Hill in September 2012. recorded Mattea’s Grammy-nominated Where once she was pitched songs by Coal album, and he continues to tour with Music Row writers, now she collects the her. In 2009 he released his third instru - generations-old and new-but-old-in-soul mental CD, The Return Journey . 02-27 Mattea:GP 2/13/13 3:59 PM Page 4

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American Songbook In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the celebration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the creative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emer gence at the Eamonn O’Rourke turn of the 19th century up through the pre - Eamonn O’Rourke (fiddle, mandolin, and sent, American Songbook spans all styles vocals) was born in County Donegal, and genres , from the form’s early roots in Ireland. He grew up in a musical family and Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecti - took an interest in music at a very young cism of today’s singer-songwrit ers. American age. Mr. O’Rourke plays bass, guitar, violin, Songbook also showcases the outstanding and mandolin, and he began his profes - interpreters of popular song, including sional career in his late teens, playing with established and emerging concert, cabaret, small, local Irish bands. In 1993 he moved theater, and songwriter performers. to New York to further his musical career, American Songbook presentations include and since moving to the United States he major concert programs in venues around has had many wonderful opportunities: Lincoln Center. working with a wide variety of artists throughout the U.S. and Canada, being Lincoln Center for the blessed with the chance to study with the Performing Arts, Inc. great Mark O’Connor, cultivating a suc - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts cessful career as a session musician, and (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presen - composing and producing numerous ter of artistic programming, national leader albums in his studio on Long Island. In in arts and education and community rela - 2002 Mr. O’Rourke was given the wonder - tions, and manager of the Lincoln Center ful opportunity to join Kathy Mattea, and is campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 delighted to rejoin Mattea and her band, as free and ticketed events, performances, a musician and friend, on her acoustic tour. tours, and educational activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festi - vals including American Songbook , Great Performers , Lincoln Center Festival , Lincoln Center Out of Doors , Midsummer Night Swing , the Mostly Mozart Festival , and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award –winning Live From Lincoln David Spicher Center , which airs nationally on PBS. As A Nashville native, David Spicher (bass and manager of the Lincoln Center campus, vocals) is the son of session fiddle king LCPA provides support and services for the Buddy Spicher. He has performed with Lincoln Center complex and the 11 resi - Crystal Gayle, Pam Tillis, the Jerry Douglas dent organizations. In addition, LCPA led a Band, Carolina Rain, Jim Lauderdale, Nickel $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed Creek, polka queen LynnMarie, the in October 2012. Nashville Symphony, John England and the Western Swingers, and his family’s own Nashville Swing Band. 02-27 Mattea:GP 2/13/13 3:59 PM Page 5

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Lincoln Center Programming Department Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager Bill Bragin, Director, Public Programming Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming Kate Monaghan, Associate Director, Programming Jill Sternheimer, Producer, Public Programming Mauricio Lomelin, Associate Producer, Contemporary Programming Nicole Cotton, Production Coordinator Regina Grande, Assistant to the Artistic Director Julia Lin, Programming Associate Ann Crews Melton, Programming Publications Editor John Ng, Programming Assistant

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UPCOMING EVENTS JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER’S FREDERICK P. R OSE HALL

FEBRUARY 2013 THE ALLEN ROOM IRENE DIAMOND EDUCATION CENTER Dizzy and Bird Festival Paquito D’Rivera’s Dizzy and Bird Festival “Charlie Parker with Strings” Free Listening Party with Randy Weston March 8–9 , 7:30pm & 9:30pm February 28, 7pm All tributaries of contemporary jazz expression lead back Living jazz piano legend and NEA Jazz Master Randy to alto saxophone giant Charlie “Bird” Parker Weston, a close personal friend of Dizzy Gillespie, will (1920–1955), whose unrivaled improvisational bril- present a retrospective of Dizzy and Charlie Parker's liance mesmerizes everyone who hears him. Parker’s recorded musical catalog. profound impact on the course of music increased even Free and open to the public further after his 1950 session Charlie Parker with Strings, on which, framed by romantic string arrange- ments, he soared through a suite of standards (it remains MARCH 2013 his most popular recording to date). On this program, the effervescent Cuban reedist-arranger-composer ROSE THEATER Paquito D’Rivera will place his lush sound and virtuosic sensibility at the service of this repertoire, imparting a Dizzy and Bird Festival Latin twist to the proceedings. A few pieces from Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie Parker’s recordings with Machito, Chico O’Farrill, and March 8–9, 8pm other Latin artists will be revisited as well. No living trumpet player can claim a closer relationship Free pre-concert festival nightly at 6:30pm. to musician-teacher-humanitarian Dizzy Gillespie— personally or musically—than Jon Faddis, who met his Charlie Musselwhite friend and mentor at age 15. A veteran of the Thad March 15–16, 7:30pm & 9:30pm Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, and former musical director Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Charlie Musselwhite of Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra, Faddis will launched his career within the fertile blues landscape of direct The Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra of New York mid-1960s and the flower power era San through new transcriptions from Gillespie’s path- Francisco. Now 68, Musselwhite brings his still breaking 1940s , repertoire from the spectac- bourbon-smooth tenor voice and masterful harmonica ular 1950s edition that toured the Middle East and commentary to The Allen Room, where he’ll undoubt- South America under the auspices of the State edly uphold the Chicago Tribune’s assessment that “he Department, and lead a quintet through selected gems defines the cutting edge in contemporary blues.” from Gillespie’s consistently superb small group record- ings with special guests Ignacio Berroa, NEA Jazz Madeleine Peyroux Master Jimmy Heath, Pedrito Martinez, and Steve March 22–23, 7:30pm & 9:30pm Turre (3/8 only). “She was capable of telling the truth,” says Madeleine Free pre-concert festival nightly at 6:30pm. Peyroux of her attraction to Billie Holiday, to whom Free pre-concert discussion nightly at 7pm. her soulful, thick-as-molasses contralto and deliberate, conversational phrasing has been compared. In these IRENE DIAMOND EDUCATION CENTER concerts, Peyroux will apply her recognizable-in-one- note instrument—and her guitar—to repertoire drawn from her last four CDs, comprising both original songs Swing University and reimagined classics from such artists as Robert Spring Term Johnson, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Classes start March 19 and Joni Mitchell. Whether you are new to the music or seek to deepen your knowledge, Swing University offers students of all ages a chance to learn about jazz from musicians and scholars. Spring term includes Jazz 101, Jazz 201, Jazz 301, Charlie Christian, Lennie’s Listening Lessons, Ragtime, and Free Jazz. Single tickets to Spring classes are available.

Except where noted, all venues are located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, 5th floor Tickets: $10-$120 To purchase tickets call CenterCharge: 212-721-6500 or visit: jalc.org. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office is located on Broadway at 60th Street, Ground Floor. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm; Sunday, 12pm-6pm. For groups of 15 or more: 212-258-9875 or jalc.org/events/group-sales. For more information about our education programs, visit jalc.org/learn. For Swing University and WeBop enrollment: 212-258-9922. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Foursquare. 02-27 Mattea:GP 2/13/13 3:59 PM Page 7

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FEBRUARY 2013 Amina Figarova Sextet with Bart Platteau, Ernie Hammes, Marc Mommaas, Wolff & Clark Expedition Jeroen Vierdag, and Chris "Buckshot" Strik with Michael Wolff, Mike Clark, Steve Wilson, and March 11 James Genus 7:30pm & 9:30pm February 28 7:30pm & 9:30pm Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway Late Night Session: Aaron Kimmel Quartet March 12–13 7:30pm & 9:30pm Late Night Session: Joe Saylor and Bryan Carter MARCH 2013 Billy Hart Quartet Warren Wolf Group with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson, and Ben Street with Aaron Goldberg, Kris Funn, and Billy Williams March 14–17 March 1–3 7:30pm & 9:30pm 7:30pm & 9:30pm Late Night Session: Joe Saylor and Bryan Carter Late Night Session: Aaron Kimmel Quartet (Mar. 14–16) (Mar. 1–2) New York Youth Symphony Jazz Classic Jason Marsalis Quartet Featuring Brian Lynch with David Potter, Will Goble, and Austin Johnson with Matt Holman March 4 March 18 7:30pm & 9:30pm 7:30pm & 9:30pm Late Night Session: TBA Grace Kelly Quintet with Pete McCann, Evan Gregor, Eric Doob, and Luis Bonilla Quintet a surprise guest with Ivan Renta, Bruce Barth, Andy McKee, and March 5–6 John Riley 7:30pm & 9:30pm March 19–20 Late Night Session: Alphonso Horne 7:30pm & 9:30pm Late Night Session: TBA Dizzy and Bird Festival Wycliffe Gordon & Friends – The Dizzy Birds: Michael Carvin Experience Bebop Then and Now with special guest Sonny Fortune with Adrian Cunningham, Michael Dease, Aaron Diehl, with Anthony Wonsey, Jansen Cinco, and Keith Loftis Yasushi Nakamura, Dion Parson, and special guests March 21–24 March 7–10 7:30pm & 9:30pm 7:30pm & 9:30pm Late Night Session: TBA Late Night Session: Alphonso Horne (Mar. 7–9)

Tune in for our live webcasts brought to you from Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. View the full schedule at jalc.org/live. In deference to the artists, patrons of Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola are encouraged to keep conversations to a whisper during the performance. Artists and schedule subject to change. Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, 5th floor New York. Reservations: 212-258-9595/9795 or jalc.org/dizzys; Group Reservations: 212-258-9580 or jalc.org/dizzys/group-sales. Nightly Artist sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm plus an 11:30pm set on Fridays. Late Night Session sets Tuesday through Saturday, after the last Artist set. Cover Charge: $20–40. Special rates for students with valid student ID. Full dinner available at each set. Rose Theater and The Allen Room concert attendees, present your ticket stub to get 50% off the late-night cover charge at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Fridays and Saturdays. Jazz at Lincoln Center merchandise is now available at the concession stands during performances in Rose Theater and The Allen Room. Items also available in Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola during evening operating hours. Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola gift cards now available. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Foursquare. 02-27 Mattea:GP 2/13/13 3:59 PM Page 8