The Wild Honey Foundation and the Zevon Family will present Meet Me in L.A.: The Songs of Warren Zevon to benefit the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization and the Ed Asner Family Center
A career-spanning celebration of the late singer-songwriter Warren Zevon is heading to Los Angeles’ United Theater. Meet Me in L.A.: The Songs of Warren Zevon, presented by Wild Honey Foundation and the Zevon Family, will bring together an extensive group of collaborators to perform 25 songs from the artist’s discography.
Jackson Browne, Shooter Jennings, and Marshall Crenshaw lead the lineup alongside Jorge Calderón, Phil Cody, Susan Cowsill, Steve Wynn, Inara George, and Eleni Mandell. Band members Leland Sklar and Bob Glaub will join the performance with the Wild Honey Orchestra and Friends led by Rob Laufer and Jordan Summers.
“This will be an unforgettable and deeply emotional celebration of one of the best songwriters/performers of the last 50 years,” a release about the event reads. Meet Me in L.A. will benefit the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization and the Ed Asner Family Center for the Autism Community.
Additional performers will be announced leading up to the event, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. PST. General sale begins Friday, Aug. 8 at 10 a.m. PST following an initial pre-sale on Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 10 a.m. PST.
Earlier this year, Zevon was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which presented him with the Musical Influence Award. “I went and looked at the other people that were inducted in that: Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, and Louis Jordan. And, I mean, Billie Holiday. It’s not really a shitty club, you know what I mean?” Zevon’s son Jordan Zevon told Rolling Stone at the time. “I think that it acknowledges that he is influential, in the same way that I think people were a little shocked that he got as many fan votes as he did. There’s this undercurrent of his influence in a lot of musicians and a lot of people’s lives.”
