Rufus Wainwright

On Tuesday, October 7th, and Wednesday, October 8th, the Stephen Petronio Company--known for a body of work that melds movement and form with the diverse worlds of popular culture, rock music and fashion--will perform the modern dance piece BLOOM as part of the annual London festival of Dance Umbrella .  BLOOM is a piece about transformation and awakening that is performed to a commissioned Rufus Wainwright score and complemented by the uplifting voices of a local children's choir performing live.

BLOOM will be performed at 7:45PM both nights in the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX.  

Tickets for these performances range from £12-£25 and are available through the Dance Umbrella or Southbank Centre's websites.

Be one of the first to purchase tickets for Rufus' solo performance at The Venue at the Horseshoe Casino on October 17th!  Presale tickets are on sale from 10AM CST until 10PM CST on Thursday, August 14th.

Click HERE to purchase your presale tickets.  Use the password "venue".

Hurry and buy your tickets before they go on sale to the public on Friday, August 15th, at 10AM CST!

The early bird gets the ticket, as they say!  See Rufus perform solo at Royal Oak Music Theatre on October 18th.  Presale tickets go on sale Wednesday, August 6th, at 12PM (noon) EST until Friday August 8th at 12PM (noon) EST.

Click HERE to purchase your presale tickets.  Use the password "romtlive".

Hurry and buy your tickets before they go on sale to the public on Friday, August 8th, at 5PM EST!

Rufus' performance at the world renowned classical festival in Verbier on July 30th is now available for viewing online as a live rebroadcast.

The part containing Rufus' performance starts in the third portion of the set. Other performers include: Gabor Takacs-Nagy (conductor), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano), and the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Click HERE to watch!

Join us for an evening to celebrate gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality with "Rock To Win" on August 26, 2008 at the Fillmore Auditorium. The line-up will feature a special performance by Rufus along with performances by Melissa Etheridge and Cyndi Lauper. Other special guests will be announced in the days to come.

This is sure to be one of the hottest tickets in town!  Click HERE to get your tickets today!

This year, MTV is asking viewers to select the nominees for the Best Male Category category for the 2008 Music Video Awards. We are proud to announce that Rufus' video for "Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart" is a part of this special list!

Support Rufus by clicking HERE to cast your vote before the deadline this Wednesday, July 23rd. Official nominees will be announced on Friday, July 25th.

Be one of the first to purchase tickets to Rufus' live solo performance at The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater on November 8th.  Presale tickets will be available from 10AM EST on Wednesday, July 23rd, until 10PM EST Thursday, July 24th.  
Click HERE to purchase your presale tickets.  Use the password "panther."  To properly process your presale, please choose the Ticket Rush box when purchasing your tickets.  

Hurry and buy your tickets before they go on sale to the public on Friday, July 25th at 10AM EST!

Be one of the first to purchase tickets to Rufus' live solo performance at the State Theatre in Minneapolis on October 16th.  Presale tickets will be available starting at 10AM CST on Thursday, July 17th and ending at 10PM the same day.  Here is the link to purchase these presale tickets: http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/h0t8cq.  Use the password "ZING."

Get your tickets before they go on sale to the public on Friday, July 18th at 11AM CST!

Dear All:

At the moment I'm sitting in a cute little riverside cafe with the magnificent city of Porto, Portugal lazying behind me in the summer sun, a perfect time and setting in which to reflect. It's been a week since Blackoutsabbath (almost to the second, it's about 11:45 right now on a Saturday) and many thoughts have filtered in and out of my busy head and later I will tell you which ones stuck. But first, let me tell you how my time went. In Berlin, the night before
the event, Jorn and I went over to discuss logistics at our friends' beautiful apartment where the next evening we were to celebrate the Sabbath. They live in a very famous building, one of the old Communist towers on Karl Marx Allee, where all the posh GDR folk used to live. The whole area looks very Pet Shop Boys Soviet chic. It soon became apparent that the two big issues were this: getting my guitar over to their place so that I didn't have to carry it across town, and ice - a warning to all you chilled out, tumbler drinking Eskimo wannabes. Europe doesn't do ice in a bag - way too uncool (ha! Ha!). So after setting up a game plan which included dropping off the guitar that night, Jorn and I finding ice the next day, and during the Sabbath, my going down and up five flights of stairs on the hour to meet people at the door so that they wouldn't use the buzzer (phew!!!!). We went to our favorite restaurant (Borchards) and ate a couple of pounds of white asparagus, which Europe DOES have unlike the U.S where we have fiddle heads which Europe (I think) does not have. The next morning, Sabbath day, I woke up pretty early because I had a rehearsal at 10:00 AM with a string quartet for my Berlin show. Yes! Right up until noon I was of course working my ass off, which is good, but after what happened to poor Tim Russert, I think it's just as important to take time off:

THANK GOD FOR BLACKOUTSABBATH!!!! 

Anyway, at the stroke of noon (bad choice of words), I dismissed the string players, finished up the last bit of caviar in the fridge, unplugged and turned off everything and waited for Jorn to return with some kind of creamy sweet shrimp thing for lunch. He arrived with the shrimp (which was absolutely delicious), and we made plans to go to several museums that day in order to buy cool fridge magnets for the party. But first we decided it would be nice to take a little half an  hour nap before going out....we slept for three and a half hours! When we did finally wake up, we decided to at least go to one museum - the newly renovated Bode Museum on the Museum Island. What an incredible place. I especially liked the ancient (as in 2000 years old) Babylonian pinball machine and the ugly baby Jesus....go there (at least virtually) and try to find out what I'm talking about - THE FUN NEVER STOPS!!!!! Then, as the evening progressed, we started to make our way over to the monolithic area of Karl Marx Alle. On the way, we bought some cheesy Berlin beer mug magnets (just to dumb it down a bit) for the folks and then suddenly the one and only blemish occurred in the whole day (something else dark occurs later on but I'm not referring to it now so that it remains a surprise): WE COULD NOT FOR THE LIFE OF US FIND ANY ICE!!!!!!

All I can say is God bless Korea.....the corner stores of Europe are pretty mincy affairs. Sometimes it's like, "where the Hell is Marco Polo when you need him???" Or I guess in this case it would be some Viking dude. Anyway, after begging fish mongers and even thinking of raiding McDonalds with large cups, Jorn and I separated at which point I went to the party to greet guests and my dear German Wundermensch of a boyfriend went on a hunt for ice cubes. He really is the best! Fortunately, all this was rectified, ironically, BY A GAS STATION!!!

So let's push ahead a couple of hours now to the festivities and the secret dark surprise which I won't tell you about so you're shocked later because you know nothing of it. Most of the guests arrived, night fell, candles were lit and DRINKS WERE CHILLED!! Due to the loss of the electric sound system, I, inbetween the "on the hour" trips to retrieve people downstairs sang a few songs from my upcoming Shakespeare project with Bob Wilson - Rufus and Will together again but this time by candle light! It was utterly enchanting if I do say so myself! So upon leaving to go pick up some latecomers downstairs, I was confident that I had left behind an atmosphere strewn with languid contentment. But when I returned a few moments later with my friends David the cellist and his lovely violinist fiancee Rachel (both bearing their instruments), that languid atmosphere had dramatically morphed into a panic stricken frenzy! My sense of smell immediately gave it away. It smelled of burning plastic! (Aren't you happy I warned you?) I thought maybe it was a plastic bag or a cup or something that had caught fire, but no! Wonder of wonders: IT WAS THE TOILET!!!! A candle which had been placed on the ever stylish yet plastic Euro toilet had practically burned the whole waste apparatus down to the ground. It looked like something the Nazis would have done to a Marcel Duchamp art piece in the 30's, or better yet, it looked like an actual art piece of today! Everyone was quite shocked, but considering that one could argue that in fact the fire hadn't spread DUE to the toilet and thus it is possible to say that we were all actually saved BY the toilet, the party went on.......thanks to the toilet.

The air was somewhat refreshed by David and Rachel who played a beautiful Ravel duo that once again reminded me of how little I know about music, and then with about twenty minutes to go, I rallied the troops together singing "California" on my guitar (which was saved by a toilet) and we all got down to the business of writing lists. Now let me tell you: the crowd I hang out with in Berlin is pretty blase - think a kinder, gentler Otto Dix painting: eye glasses sans heroin needles. One of the guests had just finished a book about  her elderly grandparents fulfilling a suicide pact. Another had just directed Tristan und Isolde. Needless to say, I felt a bit dorky strumming on the guitar and asking everyone to change their lightbulbs, especially since Germany compared to the US is miles ahead in terms of energy conservation. Still, I was tolerated and at midnight we all put our completed lists on the fridge at the same time in a symbolic gesture and noticing that most of them were in fact lists (a select few were drawings), I was satisfied at a job well done. I could ramble on about the rest of the night and in fact continue this story to the present day, but that would give away the fact that it's a week later and I'm now on a boulevard in Portugal. I TOLD YOU I HATE WRITING EMAILS!!!!

So here are some points I want to throw out there before I throw in the towel (not on the Earth of course!...both ON and ON....figure it out). But before I do, thanks to all those who participated. It
really means a lot to me. POINT TIME:.

  *I THINK THE BLACKOUTSABBATH PARTIES SHOULD BE RATHER SMALL,
INTIMATE AFFAIRS. TOO MANY PEOPLE MAKES IT HARD TO FOCUS.

  *NEXT YEAR WHEN I DO IT AGAIN I WANT TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE PERSON
THERE WHO KNOWS A LOT ABOUT CONSERVATION, HAS PREPARED SOME INFO AND
CAN KINDA MODERATE THE DISCUSSION. YOU KNOW: YOUR CRAZY HIPPIE
FRIEND!!!!

  *THE ACTUAL LIST ONE WRITES ON THE NIGHT IS ACTUALLY A SKETCH TO
GET YOU STARTED. ANOTHER LIST SHOULD LATER BE THOUGHT OUT AND WRITTEN
AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR BROUGHT TO THE NEXT BLACKOUTSABBATH NIGHT.

That's all for now. Let me know about your Blackoutsabbath. Please post your stories on the website. Take care and good luck!!!!!  

Love
Rufus. X

On Saturday, August 30th, Rufus Wainwright will headline The Watermill Concert 2008: Last Song of Summer, which Summer will bring together three artists exceptionally capable of channeling emotion in their music, offering audiences an opportunity to experience them in the singular environs of The Watermill Center, Robert Wilson’s secluded Southampton laboratory for the creative process. Rufus, with his special guest Jessye Norman, will headline the concert, with songwriter and singer Daniel Knox opening the event. This concert is a fundraising benefit for The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program.

The Watermill Center is located at 39 Watermill Towd Road in Watermill, New York. The evening will begin with cocktails at 4:00 P.M. Daniel Knox will perform at 4:30 P.M., followed by Rufus Wainwright with Jessye Norman at 5:30 P.M.

Tickets for this benefit range from $125 to $500, the latter price including access to a backstage meet-and-great with the artists after the show. For tickets, please call the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation at 212.253.7484 ext 10.

The Watermill Concert 2008: Last Song of Summer is sponsored by L’Oreal and Sotheby’s, with additional support from Brooks Brothers. Drinks will be provided by Peroni, VOSS Water and GUS. The event’s co-chairs include Lisa Anastos, Martin Dawson, Amanda Hearst, Tobias Meyer, Shamim M. Momin, Dalia Oberlander and Viktor & Rolf.

Tune in to Bravo TV at 7pm EST/PST on Friday, June 27th, to see Rufus and fellow celebrities that were honored at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles last April.

Rufus received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, which is presented to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for the LGBT community.

For more information click HERE.

This message from Jorn Weisbrodt has been translated from German:

Heyho fellow Germans,

A new thing is coming from the US again and you will be able to  
experience it first hand. It is not the new Sex and the City which is  
already so out of date when you watch it and the only new thing about  
it is that there are no ads in between but the whole film is a  
constant ad, it is not the new Iphone although I am sure there is one  
and not the new Ipod that has a bigger music capacity than a person's  
average lifetime but it is blackoutsabbath. Yes, you heard right, it  
is something that sounds dark and gloomy (something that American were  
leaving up to the Europeans in the past) and it comes from the US. It  
does sound a little bit like recession and yes, that is also something  
new that we have to share. But the great thing is that the new thing  
comes with two well known things or better people; Rufus who will be  
in Berlin for a while working on something as over as Shakespeare's  
Sonnets and me. Blackoutsabbath is on the 21st of June and the only  
thing that you have to do to be part of it is: nothing. That sounds  
easy so far. You have to make sure though that nothing comes out of  
anything that you do or that you need nothing to do what you are  
doing. What does this mean? Turn of your power! Create your own  
blackout. And yes, it is a Saturday and the 21st of June happens to be  
summer solstice, the longest day during the year and in New York there  
is the Upper West Side and before I moved to New York my friend  
Adriana tried to explain to me all Jewish holidays and now I wish I  
would be working for a Jewish company because one gets 13 (yes,  
thirteen) holidays more in that culture, so now I am sure you also  
understand why it is called Blackoutsabbath. So you must not do  
anything that day and must not rely on energy. How is that possible?  
How can you get through these frightening 12 hours? By coming to the  
party that Corinna, Georg, Rufus and myself are organizing at 7PM. You  
have to ring the doorbell that says Diez. Hang on a minute...Ring a  
doorbell? No, you can't!

We will come up with a device how we upstairs will notice that you  
downstairs want to come up. And you will have to use the stairs  
because remember no power, no elevators. Rufus already volunteered  
that he will come down each time someone is ringing (let us just call  
it that for the ease of the communication sake) because climbing  
stairs makes your butt pop out. You cannot use your car or the subway  
to get here because everything is not working anymore during a  
blackout. You could drive over here before noon and hang around  
wasting your time (which would be a good thing to do that day).
Also hitchhiking, subway, even sharing cars with lots of other people  
does not work. You could use your horse or other animals that you can  
ride on or just a bicycle. Bring a candle (as it does get dark and  
again, there is no power for 12 hours) and ideas to talk about what  
one can change or wants to change about ones life, consumption and  
behavior. We will then write everything down and Rufus has really  
relentless fans that give him anything from scarves to brooches to  
toys (not THOSE toys) to fridge magnets that will make sure that our  
thoughts and ideas will stay with us for a year until the same thing  
happens again and we can have new ideas that come out of absolutely  
nothing. I wish his fans would also give us more useful things like  
new bowls (help, we really need some for cereal in the morning!), a  
beautiful day blanket for the bed (and I mean BEAUTIFUL not like the  
scarf that he got on April 1st after this one show). I even had to get  
my own juicer because I waited for three years and no fan was ready to  
give us one.

Why am I in this relationship? But let us stay on the topic.
It would be an honor if you would want to celebrate this evening with  
us. It will also be one of the few changes for me to see you again and  
vice versa even though after a certain hour we will not see that much  
anymore.

Please let me know if you are attending and if you bring someone. You  
can only bring one person and that should be the one you have the most  
regular sex with (and no sex is not regular).
Lots of love,
Jorn

P.S. And who still did not get what this is about please go to www.blackoutsabbath.org
  where this text will end up too probably eventually.

And because this was so much fun here is the same letter in Chinese  
(just kidding, but they would actually need this)

From Rufus' mother, Kate McGarrigle:

blackoutsabbath:TUNE OUT!!!!!    TURN OFF!!!!!    DROP IN!!!!! TUNE  
OUT all Blackberrys, computers, cell phones etc..TURN OFF all lights  
and electrical appliances, host a blackoutsabbath DROP IN: preferably  
outdoors...just like the old celebration of the solstice - burning the  
fire from sundown to sun up in order to keep the day from dying and  
starting anew! In Quebec, we do the St. Jean which is an ancient  
Celtic (Breton) celebration...don't use anything ELECTRICAL or  
ELECTRONIC.....show your ELECTRONS some love: give them the DAY OFF!  
For advice on how to prepare, go to our very own RABBI  
SCHLOMO.....whose people have lots of experience (thousands of years)  
doing sabbath - how to prepare, what to eat etc...however since this  
has nothing to do with WORK, I suggest a hearty BBQ - fire is allowed,  
coals are allowed - fun is allowed! NO ELECTRONIC SOURCES OF SOUNDS -  
make your own music....beat a drum, strum a guitar, plink a piano,  
blow a horn!

____________

mother's blackoutsabbath update:

what was

TUNE OUT           TURN OFF               DROP IN

is becoming

TUNE UP              TURN OFF               DROP IN

i have decided i'm observing the BLACKOUTSABBATH '08 in St. Sauveur where a small gathering of like-minded folks are invited to bring ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS (hence the TUNE UP)... we'll BBQ, cook on camping stoves, whatever...however we are STILL TUNING OUT....WE ARE STILL GIVING OUR HARD-WORKING ELECTRONS THE NIGHT OFF!

remember - we're trading 60 cycles for sexy cycles....bicycles....
POWER SHUTS DOWN AT 12PM NOON....
NO CARS IN DRIVEWAY...
POSSIBILITY OF TENTING...

********To get ready*******
PREPARE TO UNLOAD FRIDGE!(this also means freezer)
you can do this anytime starting.......NOW!
or later BUT by the 21st, all food is out of fridge (unless you want serious disaster)
as the POWER GETS SWITCHED TO OFF AT 7PM

Here are some household hints:
You can make a REFRIGERATOR SOUP, or you might attempt a REFRIGERATOR SALAD with cooked veggies...or
START THE COUNTDOWN WITH A  MELTDOWN...
AN ICECREAM MELTDOWN....empty those haagen-daaz (or however you spell it)
serve it as an APPETIZER - put ice cream to the FRONT of the menu instead of the BACK...
Ice cream and rum - YUM...Ice cream and wine - DIVINE.....
I shall add to this as we get closer....

yours in darkness and tranquility...
kate

Hey all!

This will be the last reminder before the first annual Blackoutsabbath  
ritual takes place on Saturday, June 21st 2008 from noon to midnight  
all over the World. I'm assuming you folks out there haven't been  
bombarded with promo concerning the event: this is precisely my  
intention! I didn't want to push this project too hard and make it  
seem like some kind of media fad. Like the low grade fever that grips  
our planet, we need a low grade answer (not necessarily dramatic, but  
a CONSTANT reminder) to combat the marathon machinations we are about  
to experience, not to mention what we are experiencing right now!  
Don't get me wrong, the bigger the gesture the better. Still, any  
shift must last and in essence become a solid part of our lives. The  
other day I saw some guy on TV (wish I could remember his name)  
talking about how it is the simple organisms that survive on this  
planet, and that history is laced with examples of species dying out  
because they failed to cut back when their habitat required them to.  
On one hand it's frightening, but on the other it's possibly a  
testament to the greatness of humanity if we act on the fact that we  
as a species might actually have to de-evolve in a way in order to  
survive. IT'S REVOLUTIONARY, and has never been done in the whole  
history of the earth!  Still, I would bargain to say that not only the  
earth but in fact the entire Universe has never witnessed such a thing  
as "human beings" and that even if they can get a bit screwy, our  
brains are still our greatest asset. So good luck with your day off,  
do what you can, but most of all, keep trying.

  Love, Rufus

P.S. This message was pretty dry in terms of the comedy section, so  
below I attached a couple of emails, one from my mom and one from Jorn  
so you guys can chuckle a bit. (See the following two news posts.)  Also, don't forget to visit the site blackoutsabbath.org to get the specifics. Adios!

Fan pre-sale tickets available now to see Rufus Wainwright perform a special solo show in Albany at The Egg on Saturday August, 16, 2008.

Call the box office at 518.473.1845 and get your early bird tickets now!

Password is ROSES.

Tickets go on-sale tomorrow at 10am CEST for Rufus' solo show in Berlin, Germany on July 3rd. He'll be performing solo at Admiralspalast Studio. Here's your chance to purchase great seats right as they go on-sale! Click HERE for the ticket purchase website.

Tune into Globo TV's Jo Soares Show late tonight at 12:20am (in the midnight hour) to see a live performance and interview from Rufus while in Brazil! Click HERE for more details.

Tune in this Friday night, April 25, 2008 to Sky Arts, UK's leading TV channel dedicated to the arts, as they host an exciting night in honor of Rufus Wainwright!

Spend the evening getting acquainted with Rufus and enjoy two live performances - Wainwright's genius Judy Garland recreation and his intimate 2007 Switzerland gig.

Rufus Wainwright Sings Judy Garland Live 8:00 PM
Rufus Wainwright: All I Want 9:30 PM
Rufus Wainwright: Plays Avo Session 10:20 PM

For more information, click HERE.

Rufus will be featured on ABC TV Australia's "Sunday Arts" program!

Tune in next Sunday April 20, 2008 at 5:30PM AEST to see Rufus' special performance. 

For more information go here.

Thank you to everyone who donated magnets for the Blackoutsabbath awareness concert on March 19. They were distributed to the concert goers so they can post their list on their fridge. We no longer need magnet donations.

It's official: tickets are now on sale for Rufus' upcoming solo performance at the beautiful Kenwood House on July 5, 2008 in Hampstead, London. English Heritage 2008 Kenwood Picnic Concerts are delighted to have Rufus be one of their featured artists for the picnic concert. The concert series is supported by Jacques Cider with Fruit’

To purchase tickets to this special show, click HERE  

The Hampton Court Palace Festival is in it's 16th year and this year they are having a very special guest. Our very own Rufus Wainwright!

Please check back Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 9AM GMT for more details on the fan pre-sale for Rufus' special solo performances at the Hampton Court Palace Festival on June 3 and June 4, 2008.

Tickets will be available here.

This is your chance to see one of the many ways Rufus Wainwright contributes to the art world.

The celebrated contemporary dance company, Stephen Petronio, collaborated with Rufus on BLOOM. Rufus composed music that swoons and swells with young love. set to poetry by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Petronio's dazzling, high-energy dancers celebrate the openness of youth.

BLOOM will be showing April 1 to 6, 2008 at The Joyce Theater - 175 8th Avenue.  New York, NY 10011.

Rufus' original music for BLOOM will feature a children's chorus in a lyrical underscoring of Petronio's savvy, proactive and physical movement.

Rufus will not be performing at these shows, but don't miss a night of dance and his music.

Tickets and more information available here.

Rufus Wainwright has announced an intimate performance in New York City to benefit Blackoutsabbath, a new energy conservation initiative that he will spearhead.
 
Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk Street in NYC 
 
MARCH 19th, 2008
Doors at 7PM/ Show at 8PM
 
Edit: THIS SHOW IS NOW SOLD OUT.
 
Rufus is asking his fans to send refrigerator magnets for distribution as part of his Blackoutsabbath initiative. You can send them to Rufus c/o MCT Management, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 2001, New York, N.Y. 10018.

If you're coming to a show, bring the magnets with you and personally give them to Rufus.
"We've moved on from brooches to refrigerator magnets," Rufus says.
 He'd be happy to meet you and accept donations of all magnets.
 
 Please visit www.Blackoutsabbath.org for more information.

Move quick ladies and gents, or you will miss out on the last stop of the Release The Stars tour. Bring someone special and let Rufus and his amazing band romance you one last time!

Get your ticket before they are all gone here.

News just in! Rufus Wainwright has been nominated for two awards this year: Songwriter of the Year and Adult Alternative Album of the Year.

You can see what the Junos are all about here.

The tanktop that Rufus designed for H&M's "Fashion Against Aids" campaign will be available in H&M retail stores this Thursday, January 31st. There will only be a limited number of tanktops made, so make sure to get yours before they run out!

Please visit the H&M website for more information.

Going to a Town to see Rufus?  Want to perform the spoken word part of 'Between My Legs' live on stage with Rufus? Rufus will select a special guest for all of his shows in Australia (January 27, 29, 30th...February 1, 2, 7, 9) except his solo dates. He will also be choosing a special guest for his shows in LA (February 12) and NYC (February 14).  
 
  Go to Rufus Wainwright Tour Auditions on You Tube and post your best rendition of the spoken word part (only!) from 'Between My Legs' and you could be selected to meet and perform with Rufus in your town.  You must already have a ticket to the show.  Entries must be posted no less than five days prior to the show.  No band members or their families are eligible.   
 
 Please follow the link: (http://www.youtube.com/group/rufuswainwrighttour) to upload your video (60 seconds or less). Send your full name, email address, phone number, name of your YouTube video (think of a unique name!) and link to your video, and which show you will be attending to: releasethestars2@gmail.com. Good luck!

Rufus has been nominated for a BRIT Award for Best International Male Solo Artist!

The list of nominees will be posted later today on the BRITS Awards website:
http://www.brits.co.uk/

Channel 4 in London will be airing Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!, Rufus' show at the London Palladium Saturday January 12, 2008 at 12:20am GMT.

Rufus will be performing solo in Seattle at the Paramount Theatre on March 13, 2008 and in Portland at the Newmark Theatre. The public onsale is Saturday, January 12 at 10:00 AM PST. Presales run Thursday,  January 10 at 10am PST  - Friday,  January 11 at 10pm PST and the password for both shows is "rufus".  Please refer to corresponding links below.

Seattle: Buy Tickets
Portland: Buy TIckets

Happy New Year!

After his run of dates in Japan in Australia, Rufus and his band will be heading to Los Angeles, CA to perform at the Wiltern on February 12th. The general on-sale is this Saturday, January 12th. You can purchase tickets through the fan pre-sale which begins at 10am Pacific Time this Thursday, January 10th and ends at 10pm Pacific Time on Friday, January 11th.

Click HERE for the pre-sale link. Password is "roses".