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TIM ROBBINS & FRIENDS
Known to the general public for big-screen roles and social engagement, less well known is Tim Robbins' background as a musician and composer.
The son of two folk musicians, his father Gil (a member of the band The Highwaymen) and mother Mary, he grew up in 1960s Greenwich Village in New York City, a hotbed of the American counterculture that influenced the entire second half of the 20th century.
Having achieved international fame as an actor, director and author in film and theater, Tim Robbins continued to to cultivate in private his passion for folk and rock music. Until 2010, when thanks to a collaboration with music producer Hal Willner, his first album, Tim Robbins & The Rogues Gallery Band, was released, featuring songs from he composed and his unmistakable voice to interpreting them.
His many projects and engagements in film and theater make his concert performances rare and memorable events, capable of engaging audiences in ballads that draw on the American musical tradition of protest and social engagement, from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen.
Tim Robbins guitar and vocals
**Jack Pinter **sax, accordion, various instruments
Shane Beales piano, keyboard, guitar
Miles Robbins guitar
**Aoife Ni Bhriain **violin
Noel Langley trumpet
Rory Mcfarlane double bass, bass guitar
Martyn Barker drums and percussion
sound engineer **Alan Haggarty **.
production The Actors' Gang
in collaboration with Change Performing Arts
the concert's musical program features original songs by Tim Robbins & The Rogues:
Moment in the sun
You are my dare
The Brooklyn Bridge
Queen of dreams
White train
Crush on you
Time to kill
Toledo girl
When the lighting called
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What to little moonlight can do (Billie Holiday)
Wild Mountain Thyme (Francis McPeake)
Lowlands away (English folk song)
Deportee (Woody Guthrie)
Marianne (English folk song)
Oh Mary don't you weep (1915, Fisk Jubilee Singers / to a cappella)
My son John (English traditional song)
Hard times come again no more (Stephen Foster)
Well may the world go (Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie)
Don't let us get sick (Warren Zevon)
Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)
_Holland 1945 _(Neutral Milk Hotel).
tor, director, screenwriter, and producer of films and plays, Robbins has won numerous awards, including an Oscar for best supporting actor for Mystic River, and the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for Robert Altman's The Player--The Play ers._ Dead Man Walking_, for which he was director, screenwriter, and producer, has won numerous awards including an Oscar for best actress for Susan Sarandon. Robbins is also artistic director of Actors' Gang, the theater company he founded in 1982 that has staged more than 80 productions, earning hundreds of awards. His show Embedded ran for more than four months at New York's Public Theater, always selling out, and then embarked on a tour that touched London and much of the United States. With the Actors Gang, he staged a much-discussed and highly successful adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, which was presented on four different continents. Robbins and his company promote educational programs in Los Angeles-area schools, and for the past five years they have begun to offering theater workshops involving inmates of California city correctional institutions.
Jack Pinter is happy to rejoin the Tim Robbins band, with whom he has played all over the world and performed last year at the Les Nuits de Fourvière Festival in Lyon. He has recently collaborated with Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners, Cait O'Riordan of The Pogues, Kathryn Williams, Adrian Utley of Portishead, Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers, and folk legend Martin Carthy. In recent years, the British multi-instrumentalist has followed Marianne Faithfull on tour re-performing "200 Motels," Frank Zappa's 1971 masterpiece, and played alongside Yoko Ono, Boy George, and Siouxsie Sioux. Throughout his long and varied career, Jack has formed numerous jazz groups, performed in orchestras and chamber ensembles, accompanied dozens of theater productions, and played with Persian pop stars, British rappers, blues legends, and brass bands. Career highlights include collaborations with Tom Waits, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Ute Lemper, and blues singer Joe Williams. Pinter has composed music for film and television. He has worked as musical director for dozens of theater productions at the Royal National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange and Nottingham Playhouse. His latest play is Captain Greedy's Carnival, a satire of capitalism, co-written with Roger Eno