Buffalo Place

Saturday, June 25th

Elvis Costello & The Imposters
www.elviscostello.com 

Elvis Costello & The Imposters boasts 5 Grammy Awards, 8 Grammy Nominations, an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Music from Liverpool University, an induction into the 2003 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  The group was formally named Elvis Costello & The Attractions and changed to Elvis Costello & The Imposters after bass player Bruce Thomas was replaced by bassist Davey Faragher.  The band entered the music business in mid-1970 in the pub rock scene and are now known for their influence in the punk and New Wave genres.  Lead singer-songwriter, Declan Patrick McManus, known by his stage name of Elvis Costello, offers listeners an extensive vocabulary of lyrics and fun plays on words and rightfully has been dubbed a “pop encyclopedia.”  In a 1980’s interview he described himself as “rock and rolls Scrabble champion.” 

Costello is a vegetarian known for wearing trademark oversized glasses.  The group has contributed music or made cameo-appearances in many motion pictures including Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Spice World, High Fidelity, The Rugrats Movie, Napoleon Dynamite, Notting Hill, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and The Sopranos and were nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 for their original song "The Scarlet Tide," featured in the film Cold Mountain.  In 2004, Elvis Costello was named #80 on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time by Rolling Stone.  In 2008 Costello hosted the television series, “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with” which was produced by Sir Elton John and ran for two seasons.  Since 2001, Costello has sat on the Advisory Board to the Board of Directors of the Jazz Foundation of America and greatly supports the foundations cause to support elderly jazz and blues musicians in crisis.  Most recently the foundation has worked to restore New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz and blues music, by providing affordable housing to jazz and blues musicians and their families who lost their homes after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.  The organization also created 1,000 jobs for musicians in the creation of the Agnes Varis Jazz & Blues in the Schools Program which has introduced children to jazz music in over 30,000 public schools across America.  Elvis Costello & The Imposters are presently on tour in Australia and will be touring across North America this summer.  Spin Music wrote about Elvis Costello & The Imposters latest album saying, “For his new disc National Ransom, Elvis Costello re-teamed with iconic producer T Bone Burnett on a set of rootsy tunes that prove Costello is still making vital music thirty-three years after his landmark 1977 debut, My Aim Is True.”