LILI HAYDN makes her debut on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," Monday, March 31 on the eve of the April 1 release of her PLACE BETWEEN PLACES album via Nettwerk Music. The singer, songwriter and violinist extraordinaire will perform the album's first single "Strawberry Street," a transcendent slice of alternative and pop. The album marks her first release for the label and third overall.
In other news, HAYDN has been invited by Roger Waters to perform with him at Coachella on Sunday, April 27; she'll be singing and playing violin.
Called "the Jimi Hendrix of violin" by Parliament-Funkadelic leader George Clinton, HAYDN has played with, sung and opened for everyone from Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (soloing on Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" before joining them again across the U.S. as the duo's opening act) to Sting, Josh Groban and Herbie Hancock (playing and singing one of her own songs as part of his jazz quintet last summer). HAYDN has her own Hendrix moment on the new album's bonus track-an epic take on P-Funk's "Maggot Brain," a rendition she's played to standing ovations at the Hollywood Bowl and elsewhere. She will also uphold her "Hendrix" moniker on April 2, as she plays and sings the national anthem for the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
Meanwhile, HAYDN will celebrate the April 1 album release with a performance and party-hosted by comedian and TV host Bill Maher-on the same day at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles. For the event HAYDN is partnering with Artists for Amnesty, Amnesty International USA to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Protect the Human campaign. All proceeds from the show will go to Amnesty International's life-saving human rights work.
Produced by HAYDN and Grammy-winning producer-engineer Thom Russo (Johnny Cash, Macy Gray, Audioslave) PLACE BETWEEN PLACES delivers sounds that are inventive and torrid, with compelling lyrics in search of peace and passion in an unsteady world. The Los Angeles-based artist's words and melodies cover a wide musical territory, as rooted in modern rock and avant-pop as in her early studies of Brahms and Tchaikovsky. On PLACE BETWEEN PLACES, HAYDN shows a new sense of abandonment in her vocals to match the fire and grace of her virtuosic violin playing.
A committed humanitarian and activist, HAYDN also performs regularly for various human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Action Center, and has played private concerts for international gatherings of Nobel laureates. The new album's "Children of Babylon" has already been adopted by the Global Security Institute to further its message of nuclear nonproliferation.
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