LUCINDA WILLIAMS ADDED TO THE 2020 ASBURY PARK MUSIC + FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP
Asbury Park, NJ (February 11, 2020) - The Asbury Park Music + Film Festival (APMFF) is proud to present Lucinda Williams at the Paramount Theatre on Sunday, April 26 at 7:00 pm ET, as part of the Keep Me With The Good Souls Tour 2020 . Tickets are priced at $25.00-89.00 and are available at apmff.org/tickets.
With her latest release of Good Souls Better Angels, Lucinda Williams has returned to the gritty blues foundation that first inspired her as a young singer-songwriter in the late 1970s. And after spending the last year on her sold-out “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” 20th Anniversary tour, Williams has reunited with that game-changing 1998 album’s co-producer and engineer Ray Kennedy, recording Good Souls, Better Angels with her ace touring band at his Nashville studio. Joining them as co-producer is Williams’ manager Tom Overby, to whom she’s been married for a decade and who contributed lyrics to her masterful songcraft. Good Souls Better Angels – is the most topical album of Williams’ career.
Williams has traveled a long road since her 1979 debut, Ramblin’ on My Mind, followed by Happy Woman Blues, her first album of originals released forty years ago in 1980. (She says that she’s still “the same girl” except that now “I have a bigger fan base and I can afford to stay at better hotels.”) Over the course of fourteen remarkable albums, three Grammy awards, and countless accolades, including Time’s Songwriter of the Year of 2001, Williams is one of our most revered artists, beloved for her singular vocals and extraordinary songs. Her recent double albums, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (2014) and Ghosts of Highway 20 (2016), released on her own label, received some of the best reviews of her career.
The not-for-profit APMFF will benefit underserved children in Asbury Park and its surrounding areas by providing music education, instruments and social connection opportunities.
The APMFF returns for its sixth year and is scheduled for April 23-26 in Asbury Park, NJ. The Festival will also feature the return of "The Bruce Springsteen Archives" and "An Evening With The Sopranos Creator David Chase", both taking place on Saturday, April 25 and a performance by Melissa Etheridge on Thursday, April 23 at 7:30pm, all happening at the Paramount Theatre. Dylan Archives V, a Festival staple over the last four years, will make its return on Sunday, April 26 at noon at the House of Independents.
In addition, The Parlor Mob (Saturday, April 25) and Kevin Devine (Friday, April 24) will play the House of Independents and Marshall Crenshaw will rock The Wonder Bar on Sunday, April 26. The Rock and Roll Playhouse will hold two shows at the Stone Pony on Sunday, April 26; music of The Beatles and The Grateful Dead. As the Festival and its mission continues to grow, the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, NJ will host Remember Jones, who will play the groundbreaking live album, Mad Dogs and Englishmen on Friday, April 24.
The Festival has already welcomed many music and film heavyweights which include Bruce Springsteen, Danny DeVito, Wyclef Jean, Stevie Van Zandt, The Farrelly Brothers, David Crosby, Cameron Crowe, Don Cheadle, Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule), John Densmore (The Doors), Jakob Dylan (The Wallflowers), Michael Franti and Cat Power.
The Festival's Board of Advisors is comprised of some of the most powerful figures in the film and music industries and includes Co-Chairs Tom Bernard (Sony Pictures Classics), Danny Clinch (Director & Photographer), Tom Donovan (Media Executive) and Adam Block (Amazon Music). In addition, Tom Jones (Halo Group), Josh Braun (Submarine Entertainment), Jim Dowd (NJ Devils Stanley Cup Champion), Eric Eisner (Double E Pictures), Denis Gallagher (Charliewood Pictures), Justin Kreutzmann (Filmmaker), Annie McDonough (Netflix), Jeff Rosen (Manager, Bob Dylan), Rich Russo ("Anything, Anything" Radio), Bob Santelli (Grammy Museum), Shelli Sonstein (Q104.3/iHeart Media), Michael Uslan (Film/TV Producer) and Jeremy Grunin (Jay & Linda Grunin Foundation) all serve as members of the Board.
The 2020 Asbury Park Music + Film Festival is sponsored by Founding Partners RWJ Barnabas Health and Asbury Park Press, Presenting Partner First Atlantic Federal Credit Union and Sponsors Madison Marquette, World Subaru and the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation.
About Asbury Park Music + Film Festival
The Asbury Park Music + Film Festival (APMFF) provides resources to support music education for underserved youth in and around Asbury Park, New Jersey. Funding supports the Asbury Park Music Foundation, "Music Saved My Life" youth education programs, Lakehouse Music Academy programs and other initiatives in the surrounding areas. Utilizing the Beat Bus Mobile Recording Studio, the APMFF delivers high-tech music education to students and provides after-school programming at schools in Asbury Park, Long Branch, Red Bank and Bradley Beach. APMFF offers scholarship opportunities and a commitment to musical excellence which affords life-changing experiences.