Grammy
Award-winning musician Aaron Neville (pictured right) brings his inimitable
voice and timeless lyrics to College Park Center for an added installment of UT
Arlington’s 2012-2013 Maverick Speakers Series.
Neville
will be joined by Ellis Marsalis (pictured left) for “A Night with New Orleans
Music Legends,” starting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, at College Park Center,
601 Spaniolo Drive.
General
admission tickets are free but required. A premium-seating package is available
for $25 and includes reserved seating, parking and more. Tickets will be
available starting at 10 a.m. Friday, March 1, at www.utatickets.com.
Neville
has been making music for five decades and released his latest project, My
True Story, earlier this month. The selections range from pop to R&B
and soul, and he collaborated with music giants such as the Drifters (“Under
the Boardwalk”), and the Imperials (“Tears on My Pillow”).
“I
attended the university of doo-wop-ology,” Neville explains on his website.
“Anything I do has got some doo-wop in it. It’s just part of me — it’s the
texture that I’m singing in, it’s the endings, it’s the harmonies.”
My True Story
represents the culmination of Neville’s career, which has seen him move
seamlessly back and forth between solo work and his role in the first family of
New Orleans music, the Neville Brothers.
His
first hit single was the landmark “Tell It Like It Is,” which held the top spot
on the R&B charts for five weeks in 1967. He went on to win Grammy Awards
for his triple-platinum 1989 collaboration with Linda Ronstadt on “Cry Like a
Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind,” and reached the Country charts with the title
track of 1993’s “The Grand Tour.” A member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame,
his last project was the gospel album I Know I’ve Been Changed in 2010.
Marsalis,
also a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, is one of the most respected
pianists in jazz. In 2011, he was honored with the opening of the Ellis
Marsalis Center for Music in Musicians’ Village in New Orleans. Each of his
four sons is a jazz musician, including music legends Branford and Wynton
Marsalis.
The
April 2 event will close out the fifth season of the Maverick Speakers Series.
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