Wednesday Evening, January 21, 2015, at 7:30

Grace McLean

Rachel Duddy, VocalsKate Ferber, VocalsJustin Goldner, BassHiroyuki Matsuura, Percussion

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

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UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTS IN THE APPEL ROOM:

Wednesday Evening, January 28, at 7:30 and 9:30Billy Porter*

Thursday Evening, January 29, at 7:30 and 9:30Norm Lewis: Who Am I?*

Friday Evening, January 30, at 8:30John Reilly and Friends, featuring Becky Stark and Tom Brosseau

Saturday Evening, January 31, at 8:30Reich and Sondheim: In Conversation and PerformanceFeaturing Paul Gemignani, George Lee Andrews, Kate Baldwin, Michael Cerveris, Anthony de Mare, Ensemble Signal, Alexander Gemignani, and Derek Johnson

Wednesday Evening, February 4, at 8:30Judy Kuhn Sings Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers, and Adam Guettel

Thursday Evening, February 5, at 8:30Lea DeLaria

*This program will be recorded by Live From Lincoln Center for future broadcast. Cameras will be present.

The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.

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

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American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Grace McLean is an actress-composer-singer-writer-teacher on the rise. Inaddition to performing in Off-Broadway hits like Natasha, Pierre & theGreat Comet of 1812 and Bedbugs!!!, Ms. McLean also makes time forher acclaimed original music, both as a solo artist and with her band, GraceMcLean & Them Apples. With a sound that combines Regina Spektor’squirkiness, Nellie McKay’s jazz sensibilities, Fiona Apple’s irreverence,Kimbra’s sass, and Merrill Garbus’s rhythm, Ms. McLean adds up to onebeautiful weirdo. She has been praised in the press for her voice and infec-tious melodies.

Ms. McLean’s work as a performer has taken her to Jamaica, Scotland,Italy, Croatia, and Serbia. In New York you can find her and her band atJoe’s Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, Ars Nova (where she developed theinteractive concert experience Grace McLean Lives in Concert), and theMuseum of the American Indian, where she performed as part of a paneldiscussion on storytelling for The Economist’s 2012 Ideas summit.

Ms. McLean’s pop opera In The Green (about the 12th-century Germanmystic Hildegard von Bingen) is currently in development. She is set torelease her new EP this year, featuring the single and her first featurevideo, Natural Disaster. In 2012 Grace McLean & Them Apples releasedtheir EP, Make Me Breakfast.

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Rachael Duddy is a singer andactress whose credits includeappearances in La Mama Cantata(world tour), Loving v. Virginiaand The Pits (Williamstown TheatreFestival), and The ImaginaryMenagerie (The McKittrick Hotel,Sleep No More). She received herbachelor of fine arts degree fromNew York University’s Tisch Schoolof the Arts.

Kate Ferber just returned from thenational tour of Ghost Brothers ofDarkland County (John Mellencamp/Stephen King/T Bone Burnett). Therecipient of an ASCAP FoundationDesmond Child Anthem Award forsongwriting, Ms. Ferber released anew EP last fall. Most recently, shehas appeared in her one-woman origi-nal show, One Child Born: The Musicof Laura Nyro, and on tour in the U.S.and Canada with Atlantic Recordsartist Max Frost.

Justin Goldner’s passion for groove,culture, and connections has takenhim around the world to 31 countries.As a bassist, guitarist, and producer,he’s had the good fortune to makemusic with the likes of Sting, RickyMartin, Matisyahu, John Scofield, andRichard Bona, along with his mentor,Meshell Ndegeo cello. Working withGrace McLean since 2009, he pro-duced her debut album, Make MeBreakfast, and its 2015 follow-up.

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Mr. Goldner’s interest in world music fostered a commitment to musical tra-ditions on their own terms; he has performed on banjo, mandolin, Greekbouzouki, Brazilian cavaquinho, and Mexican guitarrón. As bassist on NBC’s“America’s Got Talent” and guitarist in Broadway’s The Bridges of MadisonCounty, he has played nightly for audiences in New York and across the U.S.In recent years, his muse has led him to Egypt, Abu Dhabi, South Africa, LatinAmerica, and Turkmenistan, where he has performed and engaged with localcultures, conducted music workshops in three languages, and exchangedexperiences and music with others from across the world.

Originally from Tokyo, HiroyukiMatsuura started playing music inhis infancy and concentrated on thedrums and percussion in highschool. While majoring in accountingin college, he began working as amusician. He won competitions heldby Rhythm and Drums magazine andthe Kichijoji Jazz Contest. After per-forming with some of the best musi-cians in Japan, he relocated to NewYork City, where he enrolled in jazzperformance studies at City College

and started working professionally.

Mr. Matsuura has worked with the finest musicians, including Grammy, Tony,and Obie winners/nominees such as Hector Maximo Rodriguez (SpanishHarlem Orchestra), Vernon Reid (Living Colour), and Elizabeth Swados. He hasalso shared the stage with the Roots and Corey Glover, among others, and asong he recorded with Shelley Nicole appeared in a compilation album, R&BChristmas Hits, alongside music by Destiny’s Child, Whitney Houston, ChakaKhan, and Aretha Franklin.

Performing more than 250 shows per year, Mr. Matsuura has performed at suchvenues as Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Blue Note, BeaconTheatre, House of Blues in Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

American Songbook

In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the cele-bration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre-ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn of

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the 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans all stylesand genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to theeclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also show-cases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including established andemerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.

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The David Rubenstein Atrium, a vibrant public visitors’ and ticketing facility, isopen daily with an array of services for local residents, the general public, andthe thousands of people who visit Lincoln Center and the surrounding com-munity. The David Rubenstein Atrium is one of approximately 503 PrivatelyOwned Public Spaces in New York City created under a long-standing programthat offers zoning incentives for buildings to provide accessible public spaces.The facility is named in honor of the philanthropist, financier, and Vice Chairmanof Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts David Rubenstein, in recognition ofhis $10 million gift to the Bravo Campaign. The Tod Williams Billie Tsien designreflects a respect for the materials used throughout Lincoln Center and providesan open, accessible, and inviting environment. The Atrium is the first LEED-certified “green” building on the Lincoln Center campus.

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American Songbook

Lincoln Center Programming DepartmentJane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic DirectorHanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music ProgrammingJon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary ProgrammingJill Sternheimer, Acting Director, Public ProgrammingLisa Takemoto, Production ManagerCharles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingKate Monaghan, Associate Director, ProgrammingClaudia Norman, Producer, Public ProgrammingMauricio Lomelin, Associate Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingJulia Lin, Associate ProducerNicole Cotton, Production CoordinatorRegina Grande, Assistant to the Artistic DirectorLuna Shyr, Programming Publications EditorOlivia Fortunato, House Seat Coordinator

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