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pening Nights at Florida State University is excited to bring the very best performing arts, music, dance, comedy, literature and visual arts to our campus and community.

The second half of the 2023–24 season features critically acclaimed, award-winning artists and something for everyone in your family to love. Rock n’ roll legend Elvis Costello and the Imposters will kick off Tallahassee’s bicentennial year at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall.

The season continues with Canadian guitar maestro Jesse Cook and his flamenco jazz fusion style, followed by contemporary chamber orchestra Delirium Musicum.

Legendary astrophysicist Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson wraps up the month.

February will feature performances with classical crossover artists Sons of Serendip at Turner Auditorium, followed by the show stopping Simon & Garfunkel Story. Dance enthusiasts will be delighted by Complexions Contemporary Ballet and the world- renowned Vienna Boys Choir. The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and Opening Nights will celebrate the music of the Beatles.

And if that weren’t enough, GRAMMY® nominated Ruthie Foster will deliver a Texas blues show you do not want to miss. In March, the lineup continues with the best in music and stage beginning with Pink Martini, featuring China Forbes. Jazz at Lincoln Center takes center stage at The Moon with Sing and Swing, featuring renowned jazz artists Bria Skonberg and Benny Benack. Stage and screen legend Mandy Patinkin and award- winning author Jesmyn Ward will also perform.

Emerging bluegrass artists Damn Tall

Building will put on a show at Goodwood Museum and Gardens.

Finally, April brings multiple collaborations for the visual arts, music education, community outreach and family programs.

The month kicks off with seven-time Grammy® Award winner Terence Blanchard with the E-Collective and the Turtle Island Quartet, a special partnership event with the FSU College of Music.

April continues with our annual collaboration with the Chain of Parks Art Festival. Dean Mitchell is the featured artist this year. A partnership with Word of South will bring Rising Appalachia to town for a free community concert.

Opening Nights will conclude its 2023–24 season with the iconic folk duo Indigo Girls on May 1.

I cannot think of a better time and opportunity to become a member of Opening Nights and to show your support of our mission to present exceptional artists. These performances create a thriving cultural life in our community and create priceless educational experiences on campus and throughout the community. Ask any Opening Nights associate about these philanthropic opportunities.

Thank you for sharing our season with us. We look forward to many more outstanding performances coming your way in 2024, Tallahassee’s bicentennial year.

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Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton Born in London and raised there and in Liverpool, D.P. MacManus later came to be known as “Elvis Costello”. He has been performing in public for over fifty years, solo, with the pianist, Steve Nieve and with the bands Rusty, the Attractions, His Confederates — including two former members of Elvis Presley’s TCB Band — The Rude Five, an acoustic ensemble, The Sugarcanes, and his current ensemble, The Imposters.

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Costello is a two-time Grammy Award winner — firstly with Burt Bacharach for the song, “I Still Have That Other Girl” as Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 1998 and then in 2019 for his 30th album release, Look Now, in the Best Traditional Pop category. Costello has received, a BAFTA award in collaboration with the composer Richard Harvey on the music for Alan Bleasdale’s 11-hour drama serial, GBH, two Ivor Novello Awards for his songwriting catalogue and two Dutch Edison Awards, firstly with the Brodsky Quartet for The Juliet Letters and then with Anne Sofie von Otter for their collaboration, “For The Stars” and, perhaps most surprisingly, a 1989 VMA Award for “Veronica” as “Best Male Video”.

Costello has also appeared with the Mingus Big Band, the Metropole Orkest, the Jazz Passengers and on one occasion in 1983, for a television appearance with the Count Basie Orchestra with Tony Bennett. He has sung in many symphony halls including with the orchestras of San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Nashville, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Sydney, Melbourne, Honolulu and Tokyo as well as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Boston Pops and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

He made his Carnegie Hall debut as the guest of Spinal Tap in 2001, returning in 2006 to appear with The Chieftains on St. Patrick’s Day and to perform “The Long Journey Home,” an anthem co-written with Paddy Moloney before making his own solo concert debut in 2014 with a two-night stand shortly before his 60th birthday. As a solo performer Costello has appeared on the bill of “The Bob Dylan Show,” while he and The Imposters have, in more recent years, toured as coheadliners with Blondie and in support of both Steely Dan and The Police.

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Costello is a writer and part-time musician who made several records in the 20th Century, some of which are still remembered today, the most notable for many being the first five releases which were all produced by his friend, Nick Lowe and with whom he is always proud to share the bill and possibly a song or two.

Elvis Costello is the composer and lyricist of over 600 published titles, including 15 songs co-written with Paul McCartney and renowned collaborations with Allen Toussaint, the Brodsky Quartet and T Bone Burnett.

Costello has composed songs for Roy Orbison, Georgie Fame, Chet Baker, Dusty Springfield, Solomon Burke and Johnny Cash and written songs with Loretta Lynn, Bill Frisell, Aimee Mann, Chris Difford, Rosanne Cash and Kris Kristofferson, Carole King and his wife, Diana Krall. His compositions have been recorded

by George Jones, Linda Ronstadt, June Tabor, Christy Moore, Norma Waterson and Bjork.

He has written lyrics for the music of Billy Strayhorn, Oscar Peterson and for 12 Charles Mingus compositions, as well as writing music for 12 unpublished lyrics by Bob Dylan.

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Making his debut in 1977 with the Stiff Records release, My Aim Is True, Costello’s recording catalogue now runs to more than thirty-five titles, including Get Happy, Imperial Bedroom, King of America, All This Useless Beauty, North, National Ransom and Wise Up Ghost with The Roots.

Costello has worked occasionally as a record producer for other artists, producing The Specials debut album in 1980, East Side Story

by Squeeze and Rum Sodomy and The Lash by The Pogues. Much later, he worked with No Doubt on his song “I Throw My Toys Around” for The Rugrats Movie.

In late 2005, Costello performed both solo and with Allen Toussaint at a number of benefit events in New York City following the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. He recently

performed two Costello Sings Hunter/Garcia concerts to benefit The Prader-Willi Homes of California and the King of America & Other Realms gala performance in support of the Musicians Treatment Foundation of Austin, Texas.

Costello appeared with Fito Paez at Radio City Music Hall in early October 2022 to reprise a bilingual rendition of “Radio Radio” and Costello made his Spanish language singing debut on the Fito Paez ballad, “Yo Vengo A Ofrecer Mi Corazon.”

He is a member of both The Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2020 Costello was awarded an O.B.E. for his services to music. He holds two honorary doctorates in music, one from the University of Liverpool and another from the New England Conservatory. Despite this, he is known for playing the guitar with almost no regard for common sense.

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