Junior Burke to Perform for High Street Productions on March 1, 2008
Performance to be Held at Rogers Hall in Lyons
BOULDER, Colo. (January 24, 2008)—Naropa University Writing & Poetics Chair and singer/songwriter Junior Burke will perform selections from his album While You Were Gone on Saturday, March 1, 2008, at 8 p.m. in Rogers Hall on the corner of North and High Street in Lyons, Colorado. Opening for Burke will be singer/songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov.
Tickets are available online now, through the High Streets Concerts website:www.highstreetconcerts.com
Beginning Feb 4th, tickets can be purchased in person at the Naropa University Bookstore in Boulder CO (303) 546-3455, and at The Stone Cup in Lyons (303) 823-2345. Cash and checks only at these two locations, sorry no credit card/phone orders.
High Street Concerts typically sell out, and while a few tickets may be available the night of the show, we recommend that you get yours in advance. Tickets are $12 advance/$14 day of show. Please call 303-823-6433 for more information.
Drawing on influences ranging from folk rock and blue-eyed soul to blues, Burke is a consummate singer-songwriter. He fashions seamless melodies infused with lyrics that are piercing, authentic and unforgettable, performing them in an evocative tenor voice that invites the listener to share with him an intimate, intensely personal experience. A songwriter during his entire adult life, Burke has seen his work performed and recorded by a range of top talents, including Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, David Bromberg, Mandy Patinkin, Bonnie Koloc, Freddie Jackson, Utah Phillips, the Boston Pops and the Rochester Philharmonic.
Burke’s latest album, While You WereGone, is on Boulder-based Red Thread Records, a label dedicated to bringing the best of adult contemporary music to the forefront. Red Thread Records takes its name from the Eastern concept of a red thread that connects individuals who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstance, and whose lives will be forever intertwined from that time forward. Another Eastern tradition refers to the “red thread of passion.” The founders of Red Thread Records believe that music is the medium through which passion for life and its many facets can best be expressed and through which auspicious connections are often made. Burke’s CD, While You Were Gone, is available now at JuniorBurke.com, cdbaby.com, iTunes, Albums on the Hill in Boulder, and at the Naropa University Bookstore in Boulder.
Burke is currently chair of the Writing & Poetics department of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where he also directs the online Creative Writing program. In addition, Burke teaches fiction, dramatic writing and literary studies. He has most recently been involved in creating a film that pays tribute to Kerouac’s On the Road, called On the Road Now: Writers Respond to Kerouac in the 21st Century. On the Road Now visits many of the book’s original locations, viewing them through a contemporary lens. Burke’s song from his CD Teleclone Universe appears in the film.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Philadelphia, Gregory Alan Isakov moved to Colorado at the end of the last decade. He has made a rising impact on the music scene and has been recently awarded Denver Westword's Best Singer/Songwriter 2007, and was the 2007 winner of the Telluride Troubadour Competition.
Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of theNorth Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Naropa University is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian liberal arts institution dedicated to advancing contemplative education. The university comprises a four-year undergraduate college and graduate programs in the arts, education, environmental leadership, psychology and religious studies.
