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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Santana’s Former Lead Vocalist
Teaming Up with Acclaimed Jazz Keyboardist August 8, 2010 for Free
Night of Pop, Jazz and R&B at Long’s Park.
LANCASTER, PA -- What happens when Santana’s former leader
vocalist Alex Ligertwood takes the stage with high-energy,
jazz keyboardist David Garfield? On August 8, 2010,
lucky Long’s Park concertgoers will experience the magical
music that happens when pop and jazz blend with R&B and Latin.
The David Garfield and Alex Ligertwood Group take
center stage in the ninth free concert of the 2010 Long’s Park
Summer Music Series, beginning Sunday night at 7:30 pm.
PNC Bank is sponsoring the free August 8 concert.
David Garfield and Alex Ligertwood have
been performing together around the world for 10 years. Musical
icons in their own right, they give birth to a distinct and contemporary
sound covering everything from sensitive ballads to foot-stomping,
soul classics. It goes far beyond the confines of traditional and
smooth jazz, treating audiences to a jam session that might include
Steely Dan, the Beatles, Al Green and Santana.
Garfield explained the Garfield/Ligertwood chemistry in a Syracuse
New Times interview last summer. Inviting the vocal legend to
sing Let’s Stay Together with his David Garfield
Band in 1997, “It was magic,” he recalled and was
soon adding Ligertwood into every song. “Fast-forward 10 years
later, and we’ve got a great repertoire [we] do together.”
David Garfield has been making music for three decades.
The Chicago native began taking piano lessons when he was just seven.
Since that early start, he has recorded 11 albums, toured with Aerosmith
and Peter Gabriel, was music director for Grammy- winning
George Benson and formed many bands including jazz fusion
band, Karizma, Los Lobotomys, Creatchy and the Cats and the
David Garfield Band. In addition, over the years he has recorded
with Cher, Spinal Tap and Smokey Robinson and performed
live with Michael Bolton and The Blues Brothers, to
name a few.
Across the pond, Scottish-born Alex Ligertwood grew
up in Glasgow loving American music. The raw, unbridled electricity
of Motown, R&B and soul stirred his soul. In the early seventies
English rock guitarist Jeff Beck was the first to discover
his big soulful voice, promptly making him his lead vocalist.
Ligertwood next joined another legendary British band, Brian Auger’s
Oblivion Express. With Auger’s jazz-rock unit, he cowrote
four albums, sang and played rhythm guitar. During the same time
he performed and recorded with fellow Scots soul mates, the Average
White Band. His lead vocals are featured on three of their albums.
In 1979, Alex Ligertwood found a perfect match when
he joined Santana. His vocal intensity fed the volcanic guitar
virtuosity of Carlos Santana on eight albums he cowrote.
One—the passionate, spiritual tour-de-force, Somewhere in
Heaven—propelled him into the front ranks of R&B balladeers.
Side projects have found Ligertwood and his amazing vocal talent
on many more albums including such diverse sounds as Carly Simon,
the Doobie Brothers, Spyro Gyra and the Dixie Dregs.
Now living in Santa Monica, California, Alex Ligertwood
teamed with David Garfield on four songs on Garfield’s
2003 “Giving Back” album. The two have worked together
on two more songs for Garfield’s upcoming project featuring
The Beatles’ hits.
The 48th annual Long’s Park Summer Music Series is produced
and underwritten by the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation.
The 13 weeks of award-winning, live performances are presented free
of charge at Long’s Park, thanks to generous sponsors, private
donors and proceeds of the Labor Day weekend Long’s Park Art
& Craft Festival. Season sponsors are Pennsylvania College of
Art & Design and Susquehanna Bank. Season media sponsors are
WARM 103 and 96.1 WSOX. Weather sponsor is WGAL-TV News 8. Building
sponsor is Wickersham Construction and Engineering, Inc.
Partial funding has been provided through a grant from the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts (PCA), a state agency funded by an annual state
appropriation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal
agency. PCA supplies funding to nonprofit, tax-exempt corporations,
a unit of government or a school district with arts programming
or services in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Long’s Park concertgoers are invited to bring picnics, blankets
and lawn chairs to the park. A selection of food purveyors will
also be in the park, offering a complete meal’s worth of family
foods and desserts. Long’s Park is an alcohol-free park.
Long’s Park is conveniently located at 1441 Harrisburg Pike
in Lancaster, just off Route 30 across from Park City Center. All
events are free of charge and held rain or shine, except in the
case of dangerously inclement weather.
Additional information and links to musical previews of Long’s
Park’s performers can be found at www.longspark.org
or on Facebook. For details on corporate sponsorships of the Long’s
Park Summer Music Series and to learn how to make individual and
corporate contributions, contact the Long’s Park Amphitheater
Foundation at www.longspark.org.
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