Livingston Taylor will perform a concert in historic Lanesboro, Minn. on Saturday, July 12, 8 p.m. at the St. Mane Theatre.  Tickets are $75, $35, and $25 and are available at Cornucopia Art Center (see below for details).  In the bluffs of the Root River, Lanesboro is known for its vibrant arts culture, picturesque biking and hiking trails, quality independent restaurants, gift shops, and bed & breakfast establishments.  A perfect place for a musician who's been round the country, performing more than a hundred shows a year in clubs, theaters, colleges, and with full symphony repertoire. 

Livingston Taylor's career as a professional musician began thirty years ago.  He has toured with such major artists as Linda Ronstadt, Jimmy Buffett, Fleetwood Mac, and Jethro Tull.  He has recorded eleven albums, hosted a television pop music show (This Week's Music for Viacom), taught music performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston (he is now a professor there), and served as Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University for five years.  Born in Boston in 1950 and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Livingston is the fourth of five children of Isaac and Trudy Taylor.  He was sixteen when he moved back to Boston to finish high school, and started performing in the Boston coffeehouse circuit.  At eighteen he met Jon Landau, who later became Bruce Springsteen's producer and manager.  It was Landau who produced Livingston's first recording in Macon, Georgia, for Atlantic Records when he was nineteen.

Livingston Taylor has written most of his music repertoire, including such Top Forty hits as I will Be in Love with You and I'll Come Running.  For his big brother James, he wrote Going Round One More Time and Boatman (off the double Grammy-winning album Hourglass).  In 1988 he received the Boston Music Award for outstanding folk artist.  Describing himself as a pop singer, Livingston also includes his guitar, piano, and five-string banjo in most of his performances.

"I have a lot of joy in my music . . . I love music, and I love the fact that it comes out of me.  And although I'm not that enthusiastic necessarily about listening to myself on recordings, I love listening to myself as I'm playing, as I'm singing," says Livingston Taylor.

VIP tickets are $75 each and include the best seats in the house and an intimate reception with Livingston Taylor following the concert at the Old Village Hall Restaurant.  General admission tickets are $35 each or $25 each for Cornucopia members.  They are available at Cornucopia Art Center: 103 Parkway Ave N in Lanesboro - 507-467-2446 - info@lanesboroarts.org.  There is limited seating; advance ticket purchase recommended.  (Cornucopia hours in May: Tuesday - Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday 11a.m. - 4 a.m.; June open seven days a week.)

Proceeds benefit Cornucopia Art Center in Lanesboro, Minn..  A nonprofit organization, Cornucopia Art Center serves as a regional catalyst for artistic excellence and educational development in providing meaningful art experiences for people of all ages.