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Emmylou Harris to headline Sydney Festival
The Festival First Night is a free event, and part of the three-week festival which incorporates more than a hundred events in thirty different venues across the city.
Other musical highlights include Paul Kelly, Sufjan Stevens, Kitty,Daisy and Lewis and US actor John Malkovich.
Festival director Lindy Hume says the event will be a celebration of Sydney itself, and that the program is contemporary, bold, global, diverse and ambitious – just like the city.
This will be Emmylou Harris’ first visit to Australia in a decade. The iconic singer has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide during her 30 year career and won 12 Grammy Awards.
Sydney Festival will run from January 8 to 30.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald 
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Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has released many chart-topping albums and singles over the course of her career, and has won 12 Grammys and numerous other awards. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after...
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