Dean & Britta @ the Walker | Second Show Added

In response to the tremendous response the Walker has received for Dean & Britta’s Feb. 28 show (of which a few standing room only tickets are still available), a second show has been added. And rightly so considering how unique an event it is:

Singer/guitarist /composer Dean Wareham (formerly of Galaxy 500 and Luna) was commissioned by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to compose music to accompany some of Warhol’s rarely seen silent-film portraits, which the artist called Screen Tests. These extraordinary documents of the 1960s New York art scene constitute a voluminous portrait gallery of well-known celebrities, Factory superstars, and anonymous teenagers. Wareham’s wistful tenor and languorous songs and Britta Phillips’ dreamy harmonies make the perfect live sound track for Warhol’s technically simple yet transfixing films.

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Also: Dean & Britta “13 Most Beautiful… Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” @ the Walker