Proctors, Schenectady, New York

Schenectady, NY- Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter, k.d. lang will
appear on the mainstage at Proctors on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 8:00pm.  This concert appearance comes in the wake of the Feb. 5 release of her new CD,” Watershed”, which will contain the new single "I Dream of Spring" along with 10 other new tunes.

 As the title suggests, Watershed represents a milestone in k.d. lang’s already extraordinary career. For the first time, she has assumed, on her own, the role of producer – as well as writer, singer and multi-instrumentalist -- for this album of new original songs.  Watershed serves as a highly personal companion to her 2004 Nonesuch debut, “Hymns of the 49th Parallel,” a collection of brilliantly realized interpretations of material from fellow Canadian songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Jane Siberry.  Through her extraordinary solo career, k.d. has served up some of the best music of our time. In the process, she has earned a mantel-full of awards, including multiple Grammys.

Her cd projects “Shadowland”, “Absolute Torch and Twang” and “Ingenue” - each release has revealed new dimensions of her singing and songwriting gift. Add to that a reputation as a world-class concert performer and an actor in both film and television.

 Born Katherine Dawn Lang, November 2, 1961 in Consort, Alberta, Canada, k.d. lang grew up in a musical family, always having a desire to study music and art. Musically, Lang was drawn to country; she was attracted to the music of Patsy Cline, the famous country singer who had died in the early 1960s, at the height of her popularity. As she was recording her second Nashville album in 1987, lang performed a duet with Roy Orbison on his old hit "Crying," which was recorded for the film “Hiding Out”. The single was released at the end of the year and was a hit, marking her first appearance on the country charts.

 “Shadowland,” her second Sire album, made her debt to Patsy Cline explicit. Recorded with Cline's producer, Owen Bradley -- "I'm Down to My Last Cigarette," the first single from the record, was her first to break the country Top 40. “Shadowland” became a sizable word-of-mouth hit, both in modern country and alternative music circles, which led to it going gold. The following year, lang released the harder-edged” Absolute Torch and Twang”, which increased her mainstream American country audience, in addition to being a college radio and Canadian hit. lang won a Grammy -- Best Country Vocal Performance, Female -- for the album in 1989, and "Full Moon of Love" became a Top 25 hit in the summer of 1989.

   “Ingénue” was a set of adult contemporary pop.  The first single, "Constant Craving," became a Top 40 American hit and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, leading the album to platinum status in America, Britain, and Australia; it went double platinum in Canada.

  Her next recorded work was the largely instrumental soundtrack for Gus Van Zant's film adaptation of Tom Robbins' “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" in 1993; the soundtrack was actually released several months before the film. It wasn't until 1995 that lang delivered” All You Can Eat”, her full-fledged follow-up to Ingénue.   “All You Can Eat” continued the pop direction of its predecessor, showing no traces of country.  In 1997 k.d. lang embraced traditional popular standards on “Drag” (a collection of songs about smoking) and went out on the road with Tony Bennett for a successful co-headlining concert tour.

 In 2004, after lang's contract with Sire Records ran its course, she signed with the artist-friendly Nonesuch imprint and recorded Hymns of the 49th Parallel, a collection of tunes by Canadian songwriters. Reintarnation, a compilation of her Sire years, was released in 2006.

 Tickets for k.d. lang on the mainstage at Proctors on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 8:000pm are $55, $45, $30 and $20 for Cloud Club Tickets.  17 & under price available, does not include Cloud Club price. Tickets are available at the Proctors Box Office (518) 346-6204 and on line at proctors.org.  This performance is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state Agency and is sponsored by The Muddy Cup.