{"id":63309,"date":"2020-06-24T08:49:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=63309"},"modified":"2020-06-24T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:49:27","slug":"rufus-wainwright-announces-unfollow-the-rules-the-paramour-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/06\/rufus-wainwright-announces-unfollow-the-rules-the-paramour-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Rufus Wainwright\u00a0Announces ‘Unfollow The Rules: The Paramour Session’"},"content":{"rendered":"

GRAMMY\u00ae Award-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has announced ‘Unfollow the Rules: The Paramour Session’, a concert that will be livestreamed on Saturday, June 27th at 2pm EST \/ 8pm CET \/ 7pm BST.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The livestream will premiere in Germany and France on ARTE Concert<\/a> and ARTE Concert\u2019s Facebook<\/a> and ALL ARTS\u2019 Facebook<\/a> for the U.S. and all other territories. ARTE\u2019s stream of the concert will be available as VOD for 90 days. The livestream will also be accessible via Rufus Wainwright\u2019s Official Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rufus will perform acoustically, with a socially distanced string section, piano and guitar to accompany him, in the ballroom of LA\u2019s Paramour Mansion<\/a>, former home of silent film star Antonio Moreno. The concert will feature Rufus\u2019 upcoming album Unfollow the Rules in its entirety plus some additional songs from Wainwright\u2019s existing repertoire and some new compositions, one of them written during and reflecting on the lockdown period reflecting.<\/p>\n

Rufus Wainwright has released this statement regarding the concert:<\/p>\n

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“The Paramour Session will show a completely different side of Unfollow the Rules. Acoustic, stripped back, sparser, but. in a Rufus Wainwrightian sense of course. Good songs can survive in many different environments. I want my fans to have an opportunity to hear the music live when the album comes out. The only way we can do this responsibly during these times is with acoustic instruments, and fewer musicians in a large space, where everyone can be 6 feet or more apart, with a super small crew. Rather than attempting to imitate the sound of the album I think it\u2019s both more responsible and more creatively interesting to try something new. There are no drums, no effects, no bass, no horns, no flutes, no back-up vocals \u2014 only strings that are bowed, picked, hammered, or strummed, and my voice. Let’s hope less is more. Of course, it helps that we are filming and live streaming this from the gorgeous ballroom of the Paramour Estate, a 1920s Hollywood silent film star\u2019s mansion.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

UNFOLLOW THE RULES has already been met with remarkable praise from some of Wainwright\u2019s friends, fans, and fellow artists. \u201cThis is pop music on a grand scale; sweeping, symphonic, unabashedly emotional and fearlessly agnostic in style and delivery,\u201d says Sting, while Cyndi Lauper described the album as \u201cRufus\u2019 PET SOUNDS. It sounds like a culmination of everything he has done. It\u2019s a great album, catchy and intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band will consist of: <\/strong>
\nBrian Green, guitar and music director
\nJacob Mann, piano and celeste
\nRebecca Schlappich Charles, violin
\nEliza James, violin
\nJayna Chou, viola
\nDanica Pinner, cello<\/p>\n

CONNECT WITH RUFUS WAINWRIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n

OFFICIAL<\/a><\/strong>
\nFACEBOOK<\/a><\/strong>
\nYOUTUBE<\/a><\/strong>
\nTWITTER<\/a><\/strong>
\nINSTAGRAM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GRAMMY\u00ae Award-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has announced ‘Unfollow the Rules: The Paramour Session’, a concert that will be livestreamed on Saturday, June 27th at 2pm EST \/ 8pm CET \/ 7pm BST.<\/p>\n

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