Lisa Marie Presley, Anoushka Shankar hit the Park Theatre this Weekend

Lisa Marie Presley, performing Saturday: After seven years, Lisa Marie Presley has burst back onto the music scene with her latest album, “Storm & Grace.”  Produced by the great T-Bone Burnett,  Presley will showcase her newest work, a mix of Southern blues, country and rock, when she takes the stage of the historic Park Theatre in Cranston on Saturday, November 23.

Born and raised in Memphis, Presley is the only child of the legendary Elvis Presley.  Although her life was surrounded by musical influence, Presley did not release her own music until her album “To Whom It May Concern” in 2003. The album reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart and was certified gold. Prior to this, Lisa Marie focused on charitable pursuits that remain an integral part of her life today. 

Not long after having twins in 2008, Presley and her family moved to England where she began recording “Storm & Grace” in 2010.  She wrote more than 30 songs in an eight month period and worked with many artists to put together her new album.  Producer T-Bone Burnett explained, "When songs from Lisa Marie Presley showed up at my door, I was curious. I wondered what the daughter of an American revolutionary music artist had to say. What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected and soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her. The more I listened to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be—Lisa Marie Presley is a Southern American folk music artist of great value." 

“Storm & Grace” serves to rebrand Presley away from the pop star image of her previous albums, and back to her Southern roots.  Rolling Stone spoke of her latest album with praise by saying, "Storm & Grace is the album she was born to make—a raw, powerful country, folk and blues collection that finds her embracing her Southern roots and family name.”

Anoushka Shankar, Performing Friday: Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar is one of the leading figures in World Music today. She is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, having studied exclusively with her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, from the age of nine. Thriving as a composer, she has been exploring fertile ground in the crossover between Indian music and a variety of genres including flamenco, electronica, jazz and Western classical music. Twice-nominated for a Grammy Award, Anoushka was the first Indian musician to perform at the Grammy Awards in 2006 when she was nominated for Rise, soon after becoming the youngest-ever nominee and the first woman nominated in the World Music category, for her album Live at Carnegie Hall in 2002. She was also chosen as one of 20 Asian Heroes by the Asia edition of Time magazine in 2004, and was the youngest and first female recipient of a House of Commons Shield from the British House of Parliament in 1999.

Born in London, and raised between there, New Delhi and California, Anoushka’s career was international from the start. She made her performance debut in 1995 in New Delhi at the age of thirteen, and was playing venues such as Carnegie Hall by the age of fifteen, accompanying her father at his concerts worldwide. At sixteen she signed an exclusive recording contract with Angel/EMI and released three classical recordings: Anoushka (1998), Anourag (2000) and Live at Carnegie Hall (2001), all to great critical acclaim. After finishing her schooling, Anoushka put all of her focus into following her musical pursuits and began touring in earnest, developing a solo career as a classical sitarist, while also continuing to accompany her father.