JUDY COLLINS WILL SING AT ARTS CENTER\30-year career spans folk, rock, Broadway.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Folk singer Judy Collins will perform at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. , a new addition to the theater's lineup. Collins, whose three-decade recording career includes "Both Sides Now" and "Send in the Clowns," will perform at 8 p.m. Jan. 31. Tickets are $26 and $24. "We haven't done folky folk·y n. & adj. Variant of folkie. , pop-folk music," said LPAC 1. (audio, compression) LPAC - Lossless Predictive Audio Compression. 2. LPAC - London Parallel Applications Centre. manager Bruce Spain. "We want entertainment that spans over a wide range. Judy helps us meet our goal." In addition to Collins, Spain is looking to bring one more celebrity to the theater line-up May 3. No act has been signed at this point. By holding a date open, the theater can pick up an act at bargain rates from performers looking to fill their schedules, Spain said. Last year, the theater was able to book country music artist Waylon Jennings Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15 1937 – February 13 2002) was a respected and influential American country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. , a $30,000 act, for $14,000 because he wanted to fill in a date on his tour. The theater did lose one date for this season, the March 24 performance of "Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine is a play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad. ." The theater canceled the performance after actress Loretta Swit was replaced by the production company. Collins has recorded 24 albums, covering such genres as folk, rock, spirituals and Broadway. Collins won a Grammy Award in 1968 for best folk performance for her cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." Among her fans are Bill and Hillary Clinton, who named their daughter after hearing Collins' rendition of the Joni Mitchell song, "Chelsea Morning." The president lists Collins' "Colors of the Day" as his favorite album. Collins has dabbled dab·ble v. dab·bled, dab·bling, dab·bles v.tr. To splash or spatter with or as if with a liquid: "The moon hung over the harbor dabbling the waves with gold" in other mediums besides music. Her CD album "Voices" was released as part of a package containing her own watercolor illustrations, a book of sheet music and stories about each song. Collins' album "Shameless" was released simultaneously with her novel of the same name. The music-with-novel was a publishing first, with a two-song CD inside the book. Collins is also an actress, having appeared in the film "Junior," with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito and Emma Thompson, and playing a recurring role as a blind folklorist on the TV show "Christy." Collins also donates her talents to the relief organization UNICEF UNICEF (y  `nĭsĕf'), the United Nations Children's Fund, an affiliated agency of the United Nations. and toured the former Yugoslavia last year as an emissary EMISSARY. One who is sent from one power or government into another nation for the purpose of spreading false rumors and to cause alarm. He differs from a spy. (q.v.) of that organization. Proceeds from her song "I Dream of Peace - Song for Sarajevo" go to UNICEF. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo Judy Collins Has recorded 24 albums |
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