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SUFJAN STEVENS
8pm Support Act - My Brightest Diamond
9pm - Sufjan Stevens
An American songwriter with a penchant for storytelling, Sufjan Stevens mixes autobiography, religious fantasy, and regional history to create folk songs of epic proportions.
His proposal to make a record for each of the 50 states has thus far transpired two albums, Michigan and Illinois. A preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated other projects, including an electronic record for the animals of the Chinese Zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit, 2001), a five-disc Christmas box set, and more recently, a symphonic tone-poem for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
With his step-father, Lowell, Sufjan owns and operates his own music label, Asthmatic Kitty Records, named after Lowell's beloved cat Sara, who suffers from acute feline asthma. Sufjan's appearance at Sydney Festival will feature a full rock band, a wind and brass ensemble and video projections.
WHAT THE PRESS SAID
"Mr. Stevens has emerged from indie rock as a mastermind of extravaganzas, and all the better if they're laced with fond irony. ...more"
New York Times - November 3, 2007
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