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    Willie Nelson

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    Presented by Morris Performing Arts Center at Morris Performing Arts Center

    November 28, 2008

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    Willie Nelson has been a living legend for more than 40 years beginning in the 1960's writing songs that became hits for stars such as "Night Life" for Ray Price, "Crazy" for Patsy Cline, "Hello Walls" for Faron Young and "Funny How Time Slips Away" for Ray Price. Willie reached his greatest fame during the 1970s outlaw country movement and hit stardom in 1975 with the crossover success of "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain." Hit singles followed in the 1980s with "On the Road Again" from the movie "Honeysuckle Rose" and “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” a duet with Julio Iglesias. Willie is known as one of the greatest songwriters of all time and is an accomplished guitar player with numerous albums and a wide variety of musical styles – traditional pop, Western swing, jazz, traditional country, cowboy songs, honky tonk, rock & roll, folk and the blues. Willie's touring and recording group is a collection of a number of longstanding members, including his sister Bobbie Nelson, longtime drummer Paul English, harmonicist Mickey Raphael, Bee Spears, Billy English (Paul's younger brother), and Jody Payne. Willie tours North America in his bio-diesel (aka "Bio-Willie") bus, the "Honeysuckle Rose IV." His principal guitar is a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic, which he has named "Trigger", after Roy Rogers' horse. Constant strumming over the decades has worn a large sweeping hole into the guitar's body near the sound hole. Its soundboard has been signed over the years by over 100 friends from fellow musicians to lawyers and football coaches.


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        Morris Performing Arts Center

        211 N. Michigan St.
        South Bend, IN 46601

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        Tickets: $77.50 - Pit $57.50 - Orchestra, Main, Boxes, Mezzanine, 1st-2nd-3rd Balconies

        Info Phone: (574) 235-9190

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        Dates:
        November 28, 2008

        Times:
        7:30 p.m.

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