ART GARFUNKEL, MAIA SHARP & BUDDY MONDLOCK RELEASE ‘EVERYTHING WAITS TO BE NOTICED’ OCTOBER 8, 2002

October 8 marks the debut of EVERYTHING WAITS TO BE NOTICED, the new album from ART GARFUNKEL with MAIA SHARP and BUDDY MONDLOCK. The album features songs culled from poems of ART’s, as well as songs co-written with his partners and a cover of the Garth Brooks/Buddy Mondlock song “Every Now And Then.”

The collaboration came about organically over the last year or so, when producer Billy Mann–who knew all three artists–felt they’d make a cohesive sonic collaboration. “I mentioned to Billy that I’d written a lot of prose poems, and suggested he make them into songs,” says GARFUNKEL. “Buddy was right on my wavelength. Billy was a visionary, it seemed. Maia flew in from Los Angeles and brought her saxophone and this great, hip singing voice. So we all wrote ‘Wishbone’ and demoed three tunes in Nashville that snowy January when I became a songwriter.”

GARFUNKEL has already been trying out two songs, “A Perfect Moment” and “Bounce,” to live audiences on his current worldwide tour, and the trio has plans to perform together at a number of shows this fall. Prior to joining forces with GARFUNKEL, MONDLOCK released three solo albums and won the New Folk Contest “Song Of The Year Award” in ’96 for his signature song “The Kid,” which also can be heard on EVERYTHING WAITS TO BE NOTICED. SHARP recently released her second solo album MAIA SHARP and has had songs covered by Cher, Kim Richey and Paul Carrack, among others.

Since parting ways with his former partner Paul Simon, GARFUNKEL has released 11 solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated Songs From A Parent To A Child, the platinum Angel Clare and the gold-selling Watermark. He also acted in a number of acclaimed films and embarked on an adventurous walk-across the world. Starting in Japan, continuing across the U.S. and now working his way across Europe, GARFUNKEL finds solace in literally walking the planet, getting dropped off in the morning where he left off the night before.

But it is his live concert performance that has most satisfied the singer. “In the 90s, I truly found my legs as a live concert performer,” says GARFUNKEL. He performs close to 100 shows a year with his stellar band, as well as dates with orchestral backing. “Both shows allow me room to breathe as a singer and a performer.” Of a November 2001 live show, Isaac Guzman of the New York Daily News praised his “ethereal tenor” and said “Garfunkel was thrilling on Paul Simon-penned classics such as ‘American Tune’ and ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,” while the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called a January 2002 show “genuinely compelling.”

Current tour dates are as follows, and dates with BUDDY MONDLOCK and MAIA SHARP are expected to be confirmed soon.

DATE            CITY                VENUE
Fri 7/26/02    Danbury, CT        Ives Concert Park
Sat 7/27/02   Red Bank, NJ       Count Basie Theater
Tue 7/30/02   Westbury, NY       Westbury Music Fair
Wed 7/31/02  Philadelphia, PA    Mann Center for The Performing Arts
Fri 10/18/02   Santa Rosa, CA    Luther Burbank Center
Sat 10/19/0   Tacoma, WA        Tacoma Dome