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Live From Lincoln Center to Broadcast Expanded Edition of “Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home” on August 30 on PBS

LincolnCenterLogoOn August 30, Live From Lincoln Center will broadcast an expanded edition of “Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home.” The concert, which was the season finale for the Emmy-winning series, was recorded live at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall in early May and features the five-time Tony Award-winner performing songs from her new solo recording for Nonesuch, Go Back Home. New to this 90-minute cut of “Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home” are songs from the original concert including “My Buddy” by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson, “Moonshine Lullaby” from Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun, “Stars and the Moon” from Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World, and “Virtue” and “Married Love” by Michael John LaChiusa. Click here to watch the original broadcast of “Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home.”

Audra weekends with Tanglewood and the Manchester Music Festival

Screen Shot 2013-08-21 at 1.04.50 PMAudra concludes her summer tour with two festival appearances in New England this weekend. On August 24, she takes to Tanglewood for John Williams’s Film Night with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As part of the salute to Hollywood’s rich musical history, she performs selections from such notable films as A Star is Born, State Fair, and The West Point Story. In addition to Maestro Williams, conductor David Newman (son of Alfred and a film composer in his own right) also takes the podium Saturday night. The following afternoon finds Audra in Manchester, Vermont, for the city’s eponymous music festival, singing with the Manchester Pops Orchestra and her music director Andrew Einhorn. For more information on Audra’s summer performances, click here.

Audra duets with Jimmy Fallon

Audra JimmyAudra was a surprise special guest on NBC’s Emmy-nominated series Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. The five-time Tony Award winner stopped by the studio to help Fallon out with a Suggestion Box request to give voice to some Yahoo! Answers in her own special way. Click below to watch.