John Cale (with The Wordless Music Orchestra and BGV Music Choral Group)
2017, November 18th
Howard Gillman Opera House / BAM in Brooklyn, New York, NY
50th Anniversary of The Velvet Underground and John’s 75th Birthday Celebration

1. Frozen Warnings
2. Gravel Drive
3. Hedda Gabler
4. E Is Missing
5. If You Were Still Around
6. Big White Cloud
7. Half Past France
8. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
9. Leaving It Up To You
10. You Know More Than I Know
11. Ship Of Fools
12. Hanky Panky Nohow
13. (I Keep A) Close Watch
14. Chums of Dumpty (we all are)
15. Amsterdam (w/ Sky Ferreira)
16. Rosegarden Funeral of Sores
17. Wasteland
18. Pretty People (new song)
19. Hatred
20. The Legal Status of Ice

Program B: John Cale’s 75th Birthday Celebration
Music by John Cale
Wordless Music Orchestra and Chorus
BGV Music Choral Group
Presented in association with Wordless Music
Part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival

1hr 45min without intermission
Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Tickets start at $35

John Cale: vocals, viola, keyboards
Dustin Boyer: lead guitar, samples
Joey Maramba: bass
Deantoni Parks: drums, samples

Wordless Music Orchestra:
Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris: violin
Caleb Burhans, Drew Forde, Isabel Hagen, Caitlin Lynch: viola
John Altieri: sousaphone
Sam Nester: trumpet, flugelhorn
Florent Ghys, Chris Johnson, Eleonore Oppenheim: bass
Clarice Jensen, Christine Kim, Seth Parker Woods: cello
Daniel Blake: saxophone
Alix Tucou: trombone
David Byrd-Marrow, Matt Marks: horns
Matt Smallcomb: timpani, percussion

Kurt Vile, Connan Mockasin, Caroline Polachek, Sky Ferreira, Tunde Adebimpe: Singers

Cale invited the following very special guests to help him celebrate these milestones: Animal Collective, MGMT, Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio), Connan Mockassin, Caroline Polachek (Chairlift), Thee Oh Sees, Kurt Vile, and Sky Ferreira.

The following photographs were taken by Rahav Segev © and borrowed (without permission) from the BAM Hamm Archives ©. No copyright infringement is intended. - editor.

Here Cale with Sky Ferreira (left) and Sky Ferreira (right).

Here with two members of the Wordless Music Orchestra (left) and of course, the man himself (right).

Here Cale with Kurt Vile (left) and again with Sky Ferreira (right).

Here Cale with the Wordless Music Orchestra.