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Van Dyke Parks ticket giveaway

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Feb 20, 2013 Updated Mar 4, 2013

Van Dyke Parks is at the Adelaide Festival performing with the Adelaide Art Orchestra and special guests. The competition is now closed...winners will be announced soon.

Van Dyke Parks career has been diverse, encompassing composing, arranging, producing, singing, writing, acting and performing. One of his best known collaborations was the Beach Boys album 'Smile' (which was released 44 years after it was first recorded). To Australian audiences he was the composer of the orchestral arrangements on silverchair's 2004 release' Diorama' and 2007 release 'Young Modern'.

In his appearance at the 2013 Adelaide Festival, Parks will be performing a career-retrospective of songs from his own albums, such as 'Song Cycle', 'Discover America' and 'Clang of the Yankee Reaper'. The Adelaide Art Orchestra will accompany him, along with special guests Daniel Johns and Kimbra.

ABC Dig Music has 5 double passes to give away to the show at the Thebarton Theatre on March 8.

To win a set of tickets, in a short paragraph on the form below, tell us why you would like to see Van Dyke Parks.

The competition is for tickets only. You must be able to make your own way to the venue.

The competition is now closed...winners will be announced soon.

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Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Brian Wilson, and especially for his contributions as a lyricist to the Beach Boys album Smile and Wilson's 2008 solo project, "That Lucky Old Sun". Parks has worked with such notable performers as Phil Ochs, Grace Kelly,...

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