Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Judy Collins will take a rare look back on her landmark 1967 album, Wildflowers with a series of exclusive shows, bringing to full bloom her chamber-folk masterwork supported by an orchestra. The Schenectady-Saratoga Symphony Orchestra (SSSO) will join Judy Collins on Sunday, February 22 at Proctors Theatre for one of these performances.
The show will also feature Judy’s most beloved songs from her decades-spanning oeuvre.
In her sixth decade as an artist, prolific as ever, having released her 55th album earlier this year, Collins’ Wildflowers a Gold-certified album and landed No. 5 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts, Judy’s highest-charting album. The meditative 10-song Wildflowers is one of the first orchestral pop albums of the 1960s, and it was a milestone entry in Judy’s career because it featured her first three original compositions, “Since You Asked,” “Sky Fell,” and “Albatross.”
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