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K.D. Lang lines up summer outing
Singer K.D. Lang, who last summer toured the U.S. with her recent recording partner Tony Bennett, heads out alone this time around.
Lang so far has scheduled about a month's-worth of dates that begin at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island on August 8. The singer also has a lone June performance planned in Philadelphia.
Lang's most-recent release is last November's "A Wonderful World," on which she and Bennett duet on a collection of songs popularized by Louis Armstrong.
T Bone Burnett, who picked up the 2001 Album of the Year GRAMMY® award for the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, produced the set. It was recorded in a series of marathon sessions over three days at the Harms Theater in Englewood, N.J., using all live instruments.
According to the album notes, the theater--which was once the site of vaudeville shows--was emptied out for the sessions except for the two singers, the producer and a 50-piece orchestra.
On Monday night (4/7), Lang and Bennet are due to perform together at the 14th annual GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Awards in New York City, according to Lang's website.
Some time this summer, MCA Nashville plans to release a tribute album titled "Remembering Patsy Cline," which will feature Lang's version of Cline's "Leavin' on Your Mind," according to the label.
"Invincible Summer," Lang's most-recent collection of new studio material, surfaced in 2000. She followed that album with 2001's "Live by Request."
