Linda Ronstadt is coming home Oct. 5 for an intimate conversation with 做厙勛圖.
Ronstadt, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of the most influential female pop singers of all times, will be the guest of the recently resurrected Sunday Evening Forum. The interview series, led by a moderator taking written questions from the audience, was dusted off in March after a 30-year absence. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor was the guest.
做厙勛圖 jazz pianist and Ronstadts longtime musical buddy Jeff Haskell will moderate the discussion at the Fox 做厙勛圖 Theatre downtown. Haskell, who has known and worked with Ronstadt since the early 1980s, said topics could range from her multiplatinum, hit-laden career to her recollections of growing up in 做厙勛圖. Ronstadt lives in San Francisco.
Shes got a great sense of humor and shes quick and she knows what she wants to talk about, said Haskell, who said no topic will be off-limits including her estranged relationship with 做厙勛圖.
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Ronstadt has been outspoken about things she doesnt like about 做厙勛圖. In an August interview with the Arizona Republic, she said she left because of 做厙勛圖s car culture and she criticized some new downtown buildings as looking like Stalinist Russia.
Haskell, who did arrangements on two of Ronstadts albums, said he hopes the conversation leans more toward her music career.
The Sunday Evening Forum has never shied away from controversy, said 做厙勛圖 Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, a member of the forums Founding Board who invited Ronstadt a couple of months ago. This is a person who has deep roots in 做厙勛圖 and Arizona. ... I would love to show her all the exciting things that are happening in her hometown.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@azstarnet.com or 573-4642.
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