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21st Annual Dream Gala Entertainment Lyle Lovett  The entertainment at the 21st Annual Dream Gala, the legendary Lyle Lovett, was a huge hit! Directly following the close of the Live Auction guests enjoyed a musical performance from this fantastic artist. Lyle Lovett's voice is unique, but his antecedents are recognizable. In his work two roads come together, –the trail blazed by the great Texas storytellers of whom Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark are the best known, and the crooked highway navigated by sophisticated wise-asses such as Randy Newman and Tom Waits. Lovett’s first gift was to combine these two potent strands of musical DNA into a new genome able to generate songs as brilliant and double-sided as “If I Had A Boat,” “God Will,” “If I Were the Man You Wanted,” “Family Reserve” and “Her First Mistake.” What emerged was a picture of a smart and complicated man, whose good humor and generosity of spirit were holding back a darker character. Lovett also has a gift for big band arrangements. He also displays a literary talent that has made him part of the tradition of American ironists. While music should be and is open for interpretation by the listener, Lovett’s new album, IT’S NOT BIG IT’S LARGE, suggests notions of mortality, loss and the fluidity of time. In many of the songs, the past intrudes on the present and the narrator finds strength to deal with the travails of today by putting them into historical perspective. Lyle Lovett does a lot of things very well, but one of his most important talents is his ability to make us aware of how much the past lives in us and how what we do today shapes how we will consider our lives later. The people in old songs and old photographs were once just as alive and full of feelings as we are now. They were what we are; we will someday be as they are. That can be an intimidating thought, but Lovett also offers us consolation; when we sing their songs, when we remember them, they are alive again. The Dream Gala is known for sensational entertainment. Below is a history of our entertainers. 2010 Lyle Lovett 2009 Jay Leno 2008 Craig Ferguson 2007 LeAnn Rimes 2006 Peter Cincotti 2005 Jay Leno 2004 The Fab Four 2003 The Four Tops 2002 Wayne Brady 2001 Howie Mandel 2000 Smokey Robinson 1999 Roberta Flack 1998 Diana Krall 1997 Kenny G 1996 Dave Koz 1995 Marilyn McCoo 1994 Dave Koz 1993 Michael Feinstein 1992 Ben Vereen 1991 Diane Schuur 1990 Harry Connick, Jr. |
