Elvis Costello
and Clover

The band from the original recording playing the songs from "My Aim Is True" for the first time ever in public

plus Austin deLone
& Bill Kirchen

A Benefit for the Richard deLone Special Housing Fund (which assists those with Prader-Willi Syndrome)

Please note the following:

1. There is a four ticket limit per customer.

2. Tickets will be available online (www.tickets.com & www.gamhtickets.com), charge-by-phone via tickets.com or by fax order (downloadable fax form at www.slims-sf.com) - there are no outlet/box office sales for this show.

3. No hard tickets will be issued at the time of sale.

4. All ticket purchasers will have to present photo ID and the credit card used for purchase at will-call on the night of the show. ONLY the person who's name is on the card used to purchase the tix can pick them up. All purchasers must then enter the venue immediately upon receipt of their tickets from the will-call window.

These policies have been put in place to restrict both scalper access and motivation so that we get the most tickets into actual fans’ hands at the reasonable price set. We hope that everyone will forgive the minor inconveniences associated with them in light of the greater good.

Is Elvis Costello a busy man? Very. Between his performances with various symphony orchestras around the world, his solo tour with Bob Dylan, his performances with his own band - Elvis Costello and The Imposters - and with the legendary Allen Toussaint, composing the score for a new dance work by Twyla Tharpe for the Miami City Ballet, and being a loving father to his almost 1 year old twins with Diana Krall, he must barely have time to think. So why is he taking time in the middle of all this to come to San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall to perform? Because of his old friend and sometime keyboardist, Austin de Lone. Austin, who is a Bay Area resident, is also a busy musician, and father to two beautiful children, Caroline and Richard. Richard is a 9 and 1/2 year old who was born with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare chromosomal disorder that is the leading genetic cause of morbid obesity. Due to the extreme difficulties that people with Prader-Willi face as they grow older, it is inevitable that Richie will end up in a residential care facility.
Austin and his wife Lesley have vowed to do what they can to make Richard’s (and others with PWS) life better. They are starting a non-profit organization, The Richard de Lone Special Housing Project, (www.RDSHP.org), whose goal is to build a state-of-the-art residential care facility for Prader-Willi children and adults in the greater Bay Area, and to find ways to improve existing facilities.
Austin and Elvis hatched a plan to put on a concert with the musicians who recorded his first album, My Aim Is True, 30 years ago in England. Elvis and the musicians, who were in a Marin county band named Clover, have generously agreed to donate their time to perform the album live, in it’s entirety, for the first time ever. All the proceeds will go to the de Lone’s non-profit. For more information about Prader-Willi Syndrome, go to the national website at www.pwsausa.org, or the California website at www.pwcf.org.