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Richard Shindell & Lucy Kaplansky in Concert

After a year-long touring hiatus, Richard Shindell returns to the US for a month-long tour of shows, including this show with Lucy Kaplansky at the South Orange Performing Arts Center on Saturday, March 22. For more information call 973-275-1114 or visit www.sopacnow.org

An expatriate New Yorker now living in Buenos Aires, Richard Shindell is a meticulous craftsman of song whose eight studio albums and two live recordings have been revered by critics and fans alike.  From his first record, Sparrow's Point (1992) to the newest album Not Far Now (2009), Shindell has demonstrated a penchant for songwriting at once passionate and profound.

Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell's songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society's fringes, from lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion.  He has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songs--songs that are veritable novellas framed in enticing acoustic melodies.

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