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The performance with Paul Williams at Soka Performing Arts Center will be rescheduled to Sunday, April 30th.
Williams is quoted as saying: “While I am most excited about my forthcoming engagement at SokaPAC, unforeseen circumstances make a performance this weekend impossible. Happily, the concert has been moved to April 30th. I look forward to seeing you all then. Blessings and thanks, Paul Williams.”
Paul Williams is one of the most beloved and respected music creators in the world today. Williams is a lyricist and composer who has won an Oscar Award, three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Ivor Novello International Award and earned induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Williams’ timeless classics range from “We’ve Only Just Begun”, “You and Me Against the World” and “The Rainbow Connection” to “Touch” and “Beyond” on Daft Punk’s chart-topping Album of the Year, Random Access Memories on which he also performed, receiving a Grammy as Featured Artist.
Williams says of his upcoming performance: “I’m looking forward to returning to Soka. My homebase is behind the Orange curtain … And my music and movie dreams were born just over the county line in Long Beach. This feels like family and that makes it really special for me.”
Paul Williams is set to perform the rescheduled performance at Soka Performing Arts Center for a 3pm show on Sunday, April 30, 2023. The venue address is 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656. Tickets: https://www.soka.edu/soka-performing-arts-center/calendar-events/music-movies-mayhem-miracles-recovered-life-paul
As President and Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Paul Williams is also a leading spokesman for music creators in the digital age. In addition to music creators’ rights, Paul is also passionate about recovery, and works tirelessly to destigmatize alcoholism and addiction. Sober 32 years, his humorous observations of life, love, and creativity, augmented by the education and knowledge he gained through his studies and certification from UCLA as a Certified Drug Rehabilitation Counselor, has been shared in a best-selling book co-written by Tracey Jackson, entitled Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life which was featured on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday.
While publicly lauded for his work as a songwriter, author and actor, most recently for his role with Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath, Paul predicts he’ll be remembered for playing Little Enos in the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy and for his lyrics to “The Love Boat” theme. However, it is the lyrics from Bugsy Malone that aptly sum up his philosophy: “You give a little love and it all comes back to you; You’re gonna’ be remembered for the things that you say and do”. As a devoted husband to writer Mariana Williams and proud father, Paul considers his son Cole, and daughter Sarah, to be his best work.
Complete calendar of events available online:
https://www.soka.edu/soka-performing-arts-center/calendar-events
Soka’s Box Office can be reached through email at tickets@soka.edu or by calling the Box Office at 949.480.4ART (4278). Walk up hours are 12-4PM Wednesday-Friday and one hour prior to show times on show days.
Now in its eleventh season of presenting the best of live performances on its extraordinary stage, Soka Performing Arts Center is located on the beautiful campus of Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. The 1,000-seat concert hall features world-class acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, acoustic designer of noted performance venues like Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
Designed to truly reflect the university’s commitment to sustainability, the concert hall and adjacent Maathai Hall (featuring a black box theatre and dance studio) have been built to Gold LEED standards and feature vegetated green roofs. Photo voltaic cells on the Soka Performing Arts Center roof generate approximately 15% of the facility’s electrical needs.
Soka University of America is a private, non-profit, four-year liberal arts college and graduate program. The campus is ranked in the Top 25 National Liberal Arts Colleges in U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Colleges 2019.” The university is open to top students of all nationalities and beliefs and was founded upon the Buddhist principles of peace, human rights, and the sanctity of life. For more information, please visit soka.edu.
