ARTOWN HEADLINER SERIES: DIONNE WARWICK

Name: ARTOWN HEADLINER SERIES: DIONNE WARWICK
Start: 2024-07-12T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-07-12T21:30:00-07:00
Location: Bartley Ranch Regional Park

Schedule

Fri Jul 12 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Bartley Ranch Regional Park | Reno, NV

Phone: 775.322.1538
Admission: Ticketed $75-$150
Dionne Warwick is a six-time Grammy Award-winning music legend who has earned more than 75 charted hit songs and sold over 100 million records. She was discovered by Burt Bacharach and Hal David in 1961,and went on to record 18 consecutive Top 100 singles (“Don't Make Me Over,” Walk on By,” “Say a Little Prayer,” “A House is Not a Home,” “Alfie,” “Heartbreaker,” “Déjà Vu,” among countless others). She received her first Grammy in 1968 for “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”. Ms. Warwick became the first African-American solo female artist of her generation to win the prestigious award for Best Contemporary Female Vocalist Performance. In 1985, she participated in the recording of “That's What Friends Are For,” which became a number-one hit worldwide and raised awareness and major funds for AIDS research, which she continues to support, among other causes such as The Starlight Foundation, children's hospitals, world hunger, disaster relief, and music education for which she has been honored and has raised millions of dollars. Ms. Warwick also participated in the all-star charity single, “We Are the World” and performed at “Live Aid.”