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Yoko Ono to appear at SXSW Music Festival
By Patrick Luce Feb 25, 2011, 0:10 GMT
2009 release. At 76 years young, Yoko continues to kick ass. Between My Head & The Sky is a career-defining album made with her new Plastic Ono Band. The record is a gorgeous, mind-melting blend of styles, restating and sharpening themes while plunging into the always-mysterious future. The band includes Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada and his band members Yuko Araki and Shimmy Shimizu, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto) as ...more
SXSW has announced Yoko Ono will appear as a special featured speaker for the25th Music Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, in March.
Ms. Ono is scheduled to sit down with Jody Denberg for a SXSW Interview on Friday March 18th, and will be a special guest performer at a Chimera Music night, Saturday, March 19, at The Elysium, 705 Red River St.
From her pioneering work in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s to the recent Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Ono's art has challenged and informed, melding the personal to the universal in simple and unique ways.
Her marriage and creative collaboration with John Lennon was a love story played out on the global stage. Ono's music laid the groundwork for the sounds of punk rock and new wave. Recently, Ono has had five consecutive dance singles charting at #1 on the top of the Billboard Dance Chart.
In 2009, she received Mojo Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, and she assembled a new Plastic Ono Band for her latest album, ‘Between My Head And The Sky’ – which was co-produced with son Sean Lennon, on his Chimera Music label.
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