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Join Rufus and the Human Rights Campaign in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this August!
Join us for an evening to celebrate gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality with "Rock To Win" on August 26, 2008 at the Fillmore Auditorium. The line-up will feature a special performance by Rufus along with performances by Melissa Etheridge and Cyndi Lauper. Other special guests will be announced in the days to come.
This is sure to be one of the hottest tickets in town! Click HERE to get your tickets today!
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Help Nominate "Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart" For Best Male Video On MTV!
This year, MTV is asking viewers to select the nominees for the Best Male Category category for the 2008 Music Video Awards. We are proud to announce that Rufus' video for "Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart" is a part of this special list!
Support Rufus by clicking HERE to cast your vote before the deadline this Wednesday, July 23rd. Official nominees will be announced on Friday, July 25th.
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Rufus comes to Miami Beach in November!
Be one of the first to purchase tickets to Rufus' live solo performance at The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater on November 8th. Presale tickets will be available from 10AM EST on Wednesday, July 23rd, until 10PM EST Thursday, July 24th.
Click HERE to purchase your presale tickets. Use the password "panther." To properly process your presale, please choose the Ticket Rush box when purchasing your tickets.
Hurry and buy your tickets before they go on sale to the public on Friday, July 25th at 10AM EST!
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See Rufus live in Minneapolis this October!
Be one of the first to purchase tickets to Rufus' live solo performance at the State Theatre in Minneapolis on October 16th. Presale tickets will be available starting at 10AM CST on Thursday, July 17th and ending at 10PM the same day. Here is the link to purchase these presale tickets: http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/h0t8cq. Use the password "ZING."
Get your tickets before they go on sale to the public on Friday, July 18th at 11AM CST!
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Recap: Blackoutsabbath 2008 (Part I)
Dear All:
At the moment I'm sitting in a cute little riverside
cafe with the magnificent city of Porto, Portugal lazying behind me in
the summer sun, a perfect time and setting in which to reflect. It's
been a week since Blackoutsabbath (almost to the second, it's about
11:45 right now on a Saturday) and many thoughts have filtered in and
out of my busy head and later I will tell you which ones stuck. But
first, let me tell you how my time went. In Berlin, the night before
the
event, Jorn and I went over to discuss logistics at our friends'
beautiful apartment where the next evening we were to celebrate the
Sabbath. They live in a very famous building, one of the old Communist
towers on Karl Marx Allee, where all the posh GDR folk used to live.
The whole area looks very Pet Shop Boys Soviet chic. It soon became
apparent that the two big issues were this: getting my guitar over to
their place so that I didn't have to carry it across town, and ice - a
warning to all you chilled out, tumbler drinking Eskimo wannabes.
Europe doesn't do ice in a bag - way too uncool (ha! Ha!). So after
setting up a game plan which included dropping off the guitar that
night, Jorn and I finding ice the next day, and during the Sabbath, my
going down and up five flights of stairs on the hour to meet people at
the door so that they wouldn't use the buzzer (phew!!!!). We went to
our favorite restaurant (Borchards) and ate a couple of pounds of white
asparagus, which Europe DOES have unlike the U.S where we have fiddle
heads which Europe (I think) does not have. The next morning, Sabbath
day, I woke up pretty early because I had a rehearsal at 10:00 AM with
a string quartet for my Berlin show. Yes! Right up until noon I was of
course working my ass off, which is good, but after what happened to
poor Tim Russert, I think it's just as important to take time off:
THANK GOD FOR BLACKOUTSABBATH!!!!
Anyway,
at the stroke of noon (bad choice of words), I dismissed the string
players, finished up the last bit of caviar in the fridge, unplugged
and turned off everything and waited for Jorn to return with some kind
of creamy sweet shrimp thing for lunch. He arrived with the shrimp
(which was absolutely delicious), and we made plans to go to several
museums that day in order to buy cool fridge magnets for the party. But
first we decided it would be nice to take a little half an hour nap
before going out....we slept for three and a half hours! When we did
finally wake up, we decided to at least go to one museum - the newly
renovated Bode Museum on the Museum Island. What an incredible place. I
especially liked the ancient (as in 2000 years old) Babylonian pinball
machine and the ugly baby Jesus....go there (at least virtually) and
try to find out what I'm talking about - THE FUN NEVER STOPS!!!!! Then,
as the evening progressed, we started to make our way over to the
monolithic area of Karl Marx Alle. On the way, we bought some cheesy
Berlin beer mug magnets (just to dumb it down a bit) for the folks and
then suddenly the one and only blemish occurred in the whole day
(something else dark occurs later on but I'm not referring to it now so
that it remains a surprise): WE COULD NOT FOR THE LIFE OF US FIND ANY
ICE!!!!!!
All I can say is God bless Korea.....the corner
stores of Europe are pretty mincy affairs. Sometimes it's like, "where
the Hell is Marco Polo when you need him???" Or I guess in this case it
would be some Viking dude. Anyway, after begging fish mongers and even
thinking of raiding McDonalds with large cups, Jorn and I separated at
which point I went to the party to greet guests and my dear German
Wundermensch of a boyfriend went on a hunt for ice cubes. He really is
the best! Fortunately, all this was rectified, ironically, BY A GAS
STATION!!!
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Recap: Blackoutsabbath 2008 (Part II)
So let's push ahead a couple of hours now to the festivities and the secret dark surprise which I won't tell you about so you're shocked later because you know nothing of it. Most of the guests arrived, night fell, candles were lit and DRINKS WERE CHILLED!! Due to the loss of the electric sound system, I, inbetween the "on the hour" trips to retrieve people downstairs sang a few songs from my upcoming Shakespeare project with Bob Wilson - Rufus and Will together again but this time by candle light! It was utterly enchanting if I do say so myself! So upon leaving to go pick up some latecomers downstairs, I was confident that I had left behind an atmosphere strewn with languid contentment. But when I returned a few moments later with my friends David the cellist and his lovely violinist fiancee Rachel (both bearing their instruments), that languid atmosphere had dramatically morphed into a panic stricken frenzy! My sense of smell immediately gave it away. It smelled of burning plastic! (Aren't you happy I warned you?) I thought maybe it was a plastic bag or a cup or something that had caught fire, but no! Wonder of wonders: IT WAS THE TOILET!!!! A candle which had been placed on the ever stylish yet plastic Euro toilet had practically burned the whole waste apparatus down to the ground. It looked like something the Nazis would have done to a Marcel Duchamp art piece in the 30's, or better yet, it looked like an actual art piece of today! Everyone was quite shocked, but considering that one could argue that in fact the fire hadn't spread DUE to the toilet and thus it is possible to say that we were all actually saved BY the toilet, the party went on.......thanks to the toilet.
The air was somewhat refreshed by David and Rachel who played a beautiful Ravel duo that once again reminded me of how little I know about music, and then with about twenty minutes to go, I rallied the troops together singing "California" on my guitar (which was saved by a toilet) and we all got down to the business of writing lists. Now let me tell you: the crowd I hang out with in Berlin is pretty blase - think a kinder, gentler Otto Dix painting: eye glasses sans heroin needles. One of the guests had just finished a book about her elderly grandparents fulfilling a suicide pact. Another had just directed Tristan und Isolde. Needless to say, I felt a bit dorky strumming on the guitar and asking everyone to change their lightbulbs, especially since Germany compared to the US is miles ahead in terms of energy conservation. Still, I was tolerated and at midnight we all put our completed lists on the fridge at the same time in a symbolic gesture and noticing that most of them were in fact lists (a select few were drawings), I was satisfied at a job well done. I could ramble on about the rest of the night and in fact continue this story to the present day, but that would give away the fact that it's a week later and I'm now on a boulevard in Portugal. I TOLD YOU I HATE WRITING EMAILS!!!!
So here are some points I want to throw out there before I throw in the towel (not on the Earth of course!...both ON and ON....figure it out). But before I do, thanks to all those who participated. It
really means a lot to me. POINT TIME:.
*I THINK THE BLACKOUTSABBATH PARTIES SHOULD BE RATHER SMALL,
INTIMATE AFFAIRS. TOO MANY PEOPLE MAKES IT HARD TO FOCUS.
*NEXT YEAR WHEN I DO IT AGAIN I WANT TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE PERSON
THERE WHO KNOWS A LOT ABOUT CONSERVATION, HAS PREPARED SOME INFO AND
CAN KINDA MODERATE THE DISCUSSION. YOU KNOW: YOUR CRAZY HIPPIE
FRIEND!!!!
*THE ACTUAL LIST ONE WRITES ON THE NIGHT IS ACTUALLY A SKETCH TO
GET YOU STARTED. ANOTHER LIST SHOULD LATER BE THOUGHT OUT AND WRITTEN
AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR BROUGHT TO THE NEXT BLACKOUTSABBATH NIGHT.
That's all for now. Let me know about your Blackoutsabbath. Please post your stories on the website. Take care and good luck!!!!!
Love
Rufus. X
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Rufus To Headline The Watermill Concert 2008
On Saturday, August 30th, Rufus Wainwright will headline The Watermill Concert 2008: Last Song of Summer, which Summer will bring together three artists exceptionally capable of channeling emotion in their music, offering audiences an opportunity to experience them in the singular environs of The Watermill Center, Robert Wilson’s secluded Southampton laboratory for the creative process. Rufus, with his special guest Jessye Norman, will headline the concert, with songwriter and singer Daniel Knox opening the event. This concert is a fundraising benefit for The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program.
The Watermill Center is located at 39 Watermill Towd Road in Watermill, New York. The evening will begin with cocktails at 4:00 P.M. Daniel Knox will perform at 4:30 P.M., followed by Rufus Wainwright with Jessye Norman at 5:30 P.M.
Tickets for this benefit range from $125 to $500, the latter price including access to a
backstage meet-and-great with the artists after the show. For tickets,
please call the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation at 212.253.7484 ext
10.
The Watermill Concert 2008: Last Song of Summer is sponsored by L’Oreal and Sotheby’s, with additional support from Brooks Brothers. Drinks will be provided by Peroni, VOSS Water and GUS. The event’s co-chairs include Lisa Anastos, Martin Dawson, Amanda Hearst, Tobias Meyer, Shamim M. Momin, Dalia Oberlander and Viktor & Rolf.
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