Twenty-Ninth ANNUAL BOB DYLANFEST
featuring ANDY HILL & RENEE SAFIER
& HARD RAIN plus many special guests
Torrance Arts Cultural Center, Outside at the Torino Plaza
MAY 5, 2019, from Noon til 8:00
Award-winning singers/songwriters Andy Hill and Renee Safier will bring their Annual Bob Dylanfest back to the popular Torrance, CA, setting on May 5th.
With some 65 iconic Bob Dylan-composed songs, performed by the duo’s band, Hard Rain, and dozens of other musicians, this outdoor festival has become a must-attend event for fans from throughout Southern California and beyond.
The music—with no songs repeated—goes from noon until 8 p.m. on the Torino Plaza of the Torrance Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA.
This family-friendly celebration includes a free souvenir program and beverages and food for purchase. Each ticket holder will be eligible for raffle prizes, and there also will be plenty of parking, at no charge.
What began as a small backyard party with talented Bob Dylan fans taking turns performing his music has evolved into an eight-hour festival attended by hundreds and featuring some of the L.A. area’s top musicians. This year will mark the event’s 29th appearance.
Besides Hill and Safier and Hard Rain, performers this year will include top L.A. session musician Marty Rifkin, who has toured with Bruce Springsteen. Acclaimed LA Folk musicians Susie Glaze and Joel Rafael will also perform. They will be among the more than 70 accomplished musicians who will perform some of America’s most loved songs by Nobel laureate Dylan.
The selections include interpretations of material that cover a broad spectrum of Dylan’s musical styles. Some audience members like to attend in costumes representing themes or characters in his songs. (Think “Tangled Up In Blue,” or “Just Like A Woman,” or “Like a Rolling Stone.”)
Tickets this year are $30 online and $35 at the door. Buy them on the website, www.andyandrenee. com. Tickets for children under 7-14 are $10. VIP tickets are $100 and come with some extra goodies (Entry fee, Event T-Shirt, Andy & Renee & Hard Rain CD, Dylanfest Mug, Post-Dylanfest VIP Party, Dylanfest Shaker Egg, VIP Hanging Tag, and more}.
T-shirts, CDs, DVDs and other memorabilia will be available for purchase at the show. Acclaimed chef Michael Shafer of the Award-winning restaurant The Depot will be selling casual food and beverages. (No outside food or drinks, please.)
Tickets and additional information are available at www.andyandrenee.com or by calling 310 346-9383.
Andy and Renee and Hard Rain have taken their unique sound and vocal and multi-instrumental skills to venues large and small all over the world. Local Southern California highlights include The Wiltern, House of Blues and the El Rey Theatre in Hollywood. Closer to home, they have played the Armstrong Theatre, Warner Grand, Grand Annex, and the Hermosa Beach Civic Center.
They have also played at the Kerrville and Napa Valley Folk Festivals, Sierra Songwriter’s Festival, and were headliners at the Bob Dylan 60th Birthday Festival in Alba, Italy, along with Michelle Shocked, Bruce Forbert and long-time Dylan sideman Bucky Baxter. Their PBS Concert Special, “Andy & Renee-Live at The Boulder Black Box,” a live concert video shot at the University of Colorado, won a Regional Emmy, and will be available on DVD at the festival.
Their fifteen independent CD releases have won them countless awards, including: Los Angeles Music Awards “Americana Group of the Year,” Semi-finalists in the ISC International Song Competition (over 16,000 entries from 37 different countries), Best Duo/Group at the International Acoustic Music Awards, Qweevak .com “Top-40 CDs of the Year, runner-up for best folk act at the Crossroads Music Awards and a 2-year run in Musician Magazine’s “Best Unsigned Band” Semifinals.
Andy & Renee’s CD, “It Takes A Lot To Laugh,” a musical tribute to Bob Dylan, has earned them 4-out-of-4 stars from many Dylan websites. A cut from that CD was featured on the BMG international release, “May Your Song Always Be Sung, Vol. 3.” Andy & Renee were also featured on the International Hemifran release, “Music Is Love,” a tribute to the music of CSNY, which also featured cuts from Judy Collins, Carrie Rodriguez, Venice, and Karla Bonoff, among others. In 2005, Renee Safier, showcasing her prodigious blues and jazz vocal chops, won the Telluride Blues Festival Acoustic Blues Competition, receiving a rousing response from the 12,000-plus festival crowd.
Find highlights from Dylanfest performances on You Tube here.
For more info, contact Andy Hill at andyhillmusic@hotmail.com at 310-346-9383 or Renee Safier at reneesafier@hotmail.com.
