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21st Annual Dream Gala Entertainment

Lyle Lovett

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.