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Judy Collins, Grammy Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter, Will Perform at William Paterson University on December 19

Judy Collins, the Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, comes to William Paterson University in Wayne on Saturday, December 19, 2015, for a special holiday show. The performance begins at 8 p.m. in the University’s Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus.

Tickets are available at the Shea Center Box Office in advance at 973.720.2371 or at wp-presents.org. Tickets are $50 for the orchestra and $40 for the loge.

Judy Collins rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s with her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her own original compositions. Her rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” from her landmark 1967 album, Wildflowers, won a Grammy and has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Her version of “Send in the Clowns,” a ballad written by Stephen Sondheim for the Broadway musical, A Little Night Music, won “Song of the Year” at the 1975 Grammy Awards.

She has released more than three dozens studio, live, and holiday recordings. In 2012, Collins released the CD/DVD, Judy Collins Live at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which aired on PBS. The special TV program was nominated for a New York Emmy and won a Bronze Medal at the 2013 New York Festival International Television & Film Awards. Her subsequent show, Live in Ireland, filmed at Dromoland Castle in Ireland in 2014, won a Bronze Medal at the 2014 New York Festival International Television & Film Awards, and was broadcast on PBS in 2014 and 2015. In September 2015, she released Strangers Again, her first studio album in four years.

In addition to her career as a folk-pop singer/songwriter, Collins is an author, activist and director.  She has written several books including Sanity Grace and her memoir, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music. She is involved with UNICEF, and became a goodwill ambassador in 1995. With Jill Godmillow, she directed Portrait of a Woman, an Academy Award-nominated film about Antonia Brico, the first woman to conduct major symphonies around the world, and Collins’s classical piano teacher when she was young.