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David Bowie, David Binder and Josh Wood

Establish A New Annual Arts & Music Festival For NYC

THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL

David Bowie Will Be The Curator For The First Festival

Which Will Take Place In May 2007

Alongside the High Line on NYC’s West Side

MR. BOWIE WILL HEADLINE

HIS FIRST NYC CONCERT IN FOUR YEARS

The Cultural Mash-Up

Will Feature Superstars and Emerging Talent

And Will Be Curated Each Year by A World-Class Artist

David Bowie, David Binder and Josh Wood are establishing a new annual cultural festival for New York City , THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL, that’s to be shaped each year by a different visionary curator. Mr. Bowie, a co-founder of THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL, will be the curator for the first year’s FESTIVAL, which will take place in May 2007.

As the first curator for THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL, Mr. Bowie will be the creative voice behind the FESTIVAL, choosing a diverse collection of artists and musicians, who inspire him and capture his point of view.

The 10-day marathon event will take place at street level and at neighboring venues alongside the High Line, New York’s biggest and most prestigious public works project in over 50 years – a public park being created from the abandoned elevated train tracks on New York City’s West Side. THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL will include music, nightlife, visual art, performance and film – featuring superstars and emerging talent – all of which celebrate the spirit of David Bowie’s creative vision.

THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL will culminate in an enormous outdoor David Bowie concert. Mr. Bowie’s first New York City concert since 2003 will be enjoyed by tens of thousands of spectators. Millions more will experience it online and on satellite radio. A full schedule of programming for THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL will be announced in the coming months.

Each year, a different world-class artist will be selected as THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL’s curator. As co-founder of THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL, David Bowie will help choose future iconic curators from the diverse world of music, film and the performing arts. The curators and performances they chose will be as diverse as New York City itself. Think an international rock legend one year, a visionary pioneer of contemporary art the next, and a rule-breaking fashion designer the following.

“As David, Josh and I have been formulating our plans, I’ve been particularly excited about seeking out emerging artists and giving them a place in a Festival that will also feature some very well-known names,” said David Bowie. “That will be an ongoing mission of The High Line Festival – to offer performances and exhibitions that are unique and original to New York . I am proud and honored to be The High Line Festival’s first curator and I am eager to start building the line-up for Spring 2007.”

“Throughout his legendary career, David Bowie has always been at the forefront of music and art – so he is the perfect artist to shape the inaugural Festival,” says David Binder. “His eye for talent and his passion for emerging artists is nothing short of spectacular. One of the most exciting things about the Festival for me is how different curators will actually change the complete flavor of the event each year – curators can be filmmakers, musicians, painters, someone with passion and vision.”

“David Bowie has been our inspiration,” says Josh Wood. “He knows a lot about a lot of different things. He’s also the consummate New Yorker. We’re interested in producing a Festival that is as wonderfully wild, intelligent and eclectic as David Bowie’s legendary career. It’s so right that he’ll be calling the creative shots for the first Festival, and we’re looking forward to working with him for years to come. All three of us are also excited about placing the Festival along New York City ’s High Line –it will be the coolest stretch on the New York calendar along the coolest stretch of the City.”

David Bowie was born in 1947. Between the late ‘60s and the mid-‘70s, he experimented with multi-media, also recording the albums The Man Who Sold The World, Space Oddity, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station and Young Americans. The track Fame taken from this album was to be his first US No 1. In 1976 he relocated to Berlin , recording Low and Heroes with Eno and Tony Visconti. In 1979 he made his Broadway debut in The Elephant Man and released the Visconti co-production Scary Monsters and Super Creeps followed by Let’s Dance. Between the mid-‘80s and the present, he has worked with his band Tin Machine, collaborated with the dance company La La La Human Steps, and written music for Hanif Kureishi’s Buddha Of Suburbia. 1992 brought one of rock’s first CD-ROMs, Jump. In 1994, reunited once again with Eno he produced the experimental Outside album followed in 1997 with Earthling and in 1999 hours..., his twenty third studio album. Bowie ’s next project in 2002 was a further recorded collaboration with Tony Visconti entitled Heathen. The accompanying live dates in Europe and America saw full performances of both the Heathen and Low albums. A year later the Reality album was launched with the world’s largest interactive ‘live by satellite’ event and was followed by the rapturously received A Reality Tour of the world. He has appeared in 18 movies. In 1999 he became a Commandeur dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2000, Bowie was voted the #1 Most Influential Artist of All Time by the U.K. ’s tastemaking tome the NME.

David Binder has spent the last decade bringing new artists and audiences to the theater. He produced the first Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad and Sanaa Lathan. The production, directed by Kenny Leon, won two Tony Awards and was widely recognized for bringing in the most diverse audience Broadway had seen in decades. David is the original producer of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s rowdy, loud, and ultimately sweet rock ‘n’ roll musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Off-Broadway, at De La Guarda, a group of flying Argentines literally lifted a young international crowd off its feet for more than six years. David has brought the show everywhere from London to Las Vegas , Tokyo to Tel Aviv. With Lisa Kron’s 2.5 Minute Ride ( New York and San Francisco ), and Kenny Lonergan’s Lobby Hero (with the Donmar in the West End ), David has showed his support for new writing that is polemical, political, and hilarious. David recently produced The Public Sings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration for the Public Theater with Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Ben Stiller, Mike Nichols, among many others. He is currently represented in the West End with the Donmar production of Guys and Dolls with Ewan McGregor.

Josh Wood has dedicated his career to producing provocative, politically-charged work. His credits in the past year include the Bring ‘Em Home Now! concert for Peace with Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Chuck D of Public Enemy, Fischerspooner, Bright Eyes, Peaches, Rufus Wainwright and Devendra Banhart. The marriage equality tour Wedrock with Lou Reed, Pink, Moby, Sandra Bernhard, Margaret Cho, Henry Rollins, Alan Cumming, Andy Bell of Erasure and Kelly Osbourne; the Broadway special performance of Tony Kushner’s new play about Laura Bush with John Cameron Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson and Kristen Johnston to support MoveOn and Downtown for Democracy; Margaret Cho’s State of Emergency shows at The Apollo during the Republican National Convention; Oxfam’s Tsunami Relief concert with Cyndi Lauper, Nancy Sinatra and Sandra Bernhard; an evening of David Sedaris’ short stories to raise money for children’s literacy performed by Liev Schreiber, Molly Shannon, Rosie Perez and Alec Baldwin as well as numerous commercial concerts and productions. Additionally, Josh is one of the leaders in New York City ’s nightlife and throws parties and events attended by thousands every week.

About the High Line park: Construction on a new park on the High Line began in spring 2006. The elevated rail structure was built in the 1930s to remove dangerous rail trains from Manhattan ’s West Side . Friends of the High Line (FHL), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was founded to save the High Line from demolition in 1999, and the City of New York formally made it policy to reuse the structure as a park in 2002. The first section of the High Line is projected to open in 2008. Until that time, the High Line is an active construction site and closed to the public. The High Line Festival is produced independently of Friends of the High Line and the City of New York . It will take place in venues alongside the High Line or in the High Line District, not on the High Line itself. For more information about the High Line project: www.thehighline.org.

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