[NEohioPAL] Todd Rundgren @ The Kent Stage

[The Kent Stage]

2/8/13
for immediate release
Contact:
Tom Simpson
wrfaa at yahoo.com
330-677-5005

Todd Rundgren to play The Kent Stage
May 14 @ 8pm

Todd Rundgren will headline a very special evening at The Kent Stage on Tuesday May 14th.  Rundgren will be performing his new CD State as well as his classic hits. This is his third visit to Kent. In the 70's he headlined two concerts at Kent State University. The Kent Stage is located at 175 East Main Street just two blocks west of the University.  The Kent Stage is an intimate 642 seat theater known for its excellent acoustics and exceptional concert offerings.

Tickets on sale Monday Feb. 11 @ 10am at www.kentstage.org or 888-718-4352. Tickets are $46.00 for Gold Circle and $33.00 for reserve seats and are limited to 6 per order.


About Todd:
Prolific musical experimenter, premier league pop craftsman, tireless producer, runt, wizard and true star Todd Rundgren will release his new studio album ‘STATE’ on the Esoteric Antenna label via Cherry Red on Monday 8th April. ‘STATE’ is Rundgren’s 24th solo studio album (and that’s not including the 2 albums he recorded with his first band the Nazz, and the 9 albums he recorded with his band Utopia!).

Todd’s latest musical vision is a fusion of rock, soul, r’n’b and electronica that is at once danceable, groundbreaking, spiritual, challenging and infectious.

Tour dates in the USA, Scandinavia, Holland and the UK in May/June
 2013.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Todd Rundgren began playing guitar as a teenager, going on to front The Nazz, the quintessential `60s psychedelic pop group. In 1969, he left the band to pursue a solo career, recording his debut Runt. But it was 1972's seminal Something/Anything? on which he played all the instruments, sang all the vocal parts, and acted as his own producer, that catapulted Todd into the limelight prompting the media to dub him “Rock's New Wunderkind.” It was followed by such landmark LPs as Todd, The Hermit of Mink Hollow and A Wizard A True Star.

In 1974, Todd formed Utopia, who were on the cutting edge of progressive rock in the 70s and developed into a very tidy power pop outfit in the 80s.

Rundgren's career as a producer has included seminal albums by The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, Psychedelic Furs, XTC, Hall And Oates and one of the best selling albums of all time, Meat Loaf’s Bat
 Out of Hell. Sealing his reputation as rock's Renaissance Man, Rundgren composed all the music and lyrics for Joe Papp's 1989 Off-Broadway production of Joe Orton's Up Against It (the screenplay commissioned by The Beatles for what was meant to have been their third motion picture), as well as the score for Dumb and Dumber and a number of television series, including Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Crime Story.

Todd’s annual musical summer camp, this year celebrating his 65th birthday and dubbed Toddstock v6.5, takes place near New Orleans on June 17-22.

About The Kent Stage:

The Kent Stage just celebrated it's 10th Anniversary with a year-long concert series. The series included concerts by Glen Campbell, Little Feat, Arlo Guthrie, Mitch Ryder, Ralph Stanley, Red Wanting Blue, Bruce Hornsby, Lisa Marie Presley, Southside Johnny, Kenny Loggins's Blue Sky Riders, Tim O'Brien, Over The Rhine, Donna The Buffalo, The Punch Brothers, Martin Sexton, Ani DeFranco, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Steve Earle, Kris Kristofferson, Rickie Lee Jones, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Robert Cray, Melanie, Asleep at the Wheel, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Guster, Colin Hay, Judy Collins, Cowboy Junkies, Greg Brown, Psychedelic Furs,John Gorka, Savoy Brown, Punch Brothers,  Iris DeMent, Josh Ritter, Leon Redbone, Tom Paxton, Kent Blues Fest, Kent Folk Festival, Film Festival and dozens of other events. 
The Kent Stage is operated by the Western Reserve Folk Arts Association, a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization. For more info on The Kent Stage: www.kentstage.org.
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