OC - Live and Let Die

A WISCONSIN POPS SERIES EVENT

Live and Let Die A Symphonic Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney with Wisconsin Pops Songs will be announced from the stage.

Chris Camilleri Tony Kishman John Merjave Jim Owen SAT, MAR 2, 2013 | Overture Hall Presented in partnership with Wisconsin Pops

This program is part of Overture’s Community Ticket Program. Funding for the Community Ticket Program is provided by Dane County, the Kuehn Family Foundation, a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by contributions to Overture Center for the Arts.

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ABOUT THE PERFORMERS CHRIS CAMILLERI (drums, vocals) Born and raised on Long Island, New York, Chris Camilleri started listening to Beatles records at a young age and, inspired by Ringo, took up the drums, the instrument to which he has devoted his professional career.

was so compelling that they hired him immediately and Kishman soon started touring around the world.

While performing in London, the group received high acclaim from Sir George Henry Martin who admitted their look and sound was as close to the real thing as it could possibly be. “At times I drifted” he told Kishman and added that each song reminded him of his time with the Beatles in the studio.

Chris has played drums for major classic rock touring artists, including Peter Noone (of Herman’s Hermits fame,) Badfinger, During the 1990’s, Kishman joined the Micky Dolenz of “The Monkees,” Joe Classic recording group Wishbone Ash Walsh, and other Beatles-era bands. as bassist and vocalist. He recorded lead vocals for Illuminations, the band’s first TONY KISHMAN studio album in nearly a decade. (bass guitar, piano, vocals) Tony also performs in the well known and Actor, singer, and highly successful Beatles symphony show, recording artist, Tony Classical Mystery Tour, which has toured Kishman doubles as to great acclaim, filling concert halls featured performer and throughout the U.S. and Europe. Today, producer of Live and Let Die, in which he Kishman still plays the original Hoffner performs the music of Paul McCartney, Bass that was provided to him by the backed by symphony orchestra. Tony also producers of Beatlemania in 1978. With developed and stars in the Beatles tribute only a few string changes over the years, show Twist and Shout. the bass has maintained its authenticity.

Tony starred for six years in both the national and international tours of Broadway’s smash hit, Beatlemania. From the start, Kishman has been regarded as the quintessential Paul McCartney because of the gifted young musician’s uncanny resemblance both visually and vocally to the beloved Beatle. Kishman was just a young kid from Tucson when he first auditioned for Beatlemania in 1977. He worked up “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Yesterday,” and “Hey Jude” where he learned just enough piano to get him through the audition. He

Kishhman is regarded by “Beatlemaniacs” as the world’s best McCartney lookalike/sound-alike. Even after 30 years, Kishman is proud to bring the most brilliant pop music in history to a new generation of Beatles fans.

Tony has recorded for RCA Records and Mercury Records.

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ABOUT THE PERFORMERS JOHN MERJAVE (Guitar) John Merjave has been singing and playing instruments since he was very young. He started as a drummer until a high school garage band led him to the guitar which he has been playing ever since. He continues to write and play music with his band 27 West and collaborator Kevin Thomas.

John Merjave began playing in the Beatles’ tribute band Liverpool in 2001 and has been playing the George Harrison lead guitar role ever since.

Liverpool is the official house band of The Fest for Beatle Fans, a convention which occurs annually in New York City and Chicago among other cities. Liverpool has also played back up for Donovan, Billy Preston, Ronnie Spector, Alan Parsons, Billy J. Kramer, Earl Slick, Joey Molland of Badfinger, Mark Hudson and Neil Innes and others.

John Merjave also plays cover and original songs with other bands including Stump The Band, Big Girls Blouse, Fatt Elizabeth (NYC’s premier Thin Lizzy Tribute,) Eileen Fogarty & the Very Best, Delilah, The Bob Burger Band, The Cara DiNorcia Band, Glen Burtnik & friends, Beatlestock, Modulo Tre and Bubble. In 2010 he joined a new project, “Three of a Kind,” a power trio with bassist/vocalist Mick Redmond (The Lookalikes & Big Girls Blouse) and drummer John Mullane (The Raw Poets.)

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JIM OWEN (rhythm guitar, piano, vocals) Singer, arranger, and musician, Jim Owen was just sixteen when he made his first professional appearance in a Beatles tribute band. By the time he was eighteen, he was touring internationally with various productions of Beatlemania, visiting Japan, Korea, China, Canada, Mexico, and South America, and performing his Beatles tribute in concert halls, theatres, and stadiums around the world.

In addition to his featured role in Twist & Shout, Jim currently stars in the symphonic Beatles show, Classical Mystery Tour, which he developed and produced, and in Tony Kishman’s symphonic McCartney review, Live and Let Die. The success of these projects has given Jim notoriety in his own right as a producer and band leader, and represents the fulfilment of his dream to share with the public live performances of some of the greatest music ever written and recorded.

Jim Owen was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. He began studying piano at 6 and won honours in various piano performance competitions through his teenage years. He was 8 years old when he first heard The Beatles and promptly decided to take up the study of the guitar.

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