Michael McDonald Presented by The Ridgefield Playhouse and Premiere Concerts Special Guest Chris Lind VIP Meet and Greet sponsored by Allshows.com Underwritten by Wall Street Not, Financial LLC Click here for Wall Street Not, Financial's website Sponsored in Part by Northeast Builders and Latis Importers, makers of Palm Ale Co-Media Sponsors WFAS 103.9fm & WEBE 108fm Michael McDonald has been a fixture in American pop music for over three decades. He first came into the spotlight as part of Steely Dan’s touring band in the early 1970s. He contributed vocals and keyboards to the band’s classic albums Katy Lied, The Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho. While working with Steely Dan, McDonald also joined the Doobie Brothers, where his voice became the group’s focal point on such songs as “Takin’ It to the Streets,” “Minute by Minute,” and, unforgettably, the Number One single “What a Fool Believes,” which won the 1980 Grammy as Song of the Year. Soul Speak is the natural follow-up to McDonald’s two smash explorations of the Motown Records songbook—the platinum-selling Motown from 2003, which was nominated for two Grammy awards, and the next year’s gold-selling Motown Two. But this time, McDonald didn’t restrict himself to any one style or record label or decade; he wanted to interpret songs that he loved, regardless of genre. So while some of the selections—“For Once in My Life,” “Walk on By,” or the album’s first single, “Love TKO”—fall squarely within the blue-eyed soul territory that we associate with Michael McDonald, others, like Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” or Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic,” are a bit more surprising. Join us for this special evening with an outstanding performance from Michael McDonald! Chris Lind was raised in Jersey on The Beatles, Monk and Mozart, he's the son of a Philadelphia Orchestra flutist from Hawaii and a piano playing business woman from Philadelphia. In high school Led Zeppelin was his band, but since then his larger influences have ranged from Debussy to Aphex Twin. He studied classical and jazz at college, but have always had a rock gig in the works. He loves folk music and studied Hawaiian Slack Key guitar at it’s source. He's a singer, songwriter, composer, guitarist and pianist. Typically he'd like to think his sound is somewhere between Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake and Chet Baker. $250 VIP GOLD CIRCLE AVAILABLE: includes priority seating, pre-show cocktail party under the tent, and a Meet & Greet starting at 6:30pm. Please call the box office to purchase VIP tickets. Latis Imports will be providing their PALM Ale in the tent! $125 all other seats includes an open bar in the lobby from 7:30pm - 8:30pm Ticket Price: $125.00 6/19/2009 7:30pm   THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.