The "hippest octogenarian on planet Earth," as Berklee College of Music President Roger H. Brown called country music legend Willie Nelson, who will be awarded an honorary doctorate today (Saturday May 11, 2013) at Berklee's commencement alongside fellow innovators Carole King and Annie Lennox. All three were on hand last night May 10, 2013 at Boston University's Agganis Arena for the class of 2013's annual Commencement Concert.
Nelson was a "surprise" guest onstage, leading the huge, and hugely talented, student orchestra on a big band arrangement of his own standard "Night Life." "Listen to the blues," he sang in his inimitable honk, taking a couple of idiosyncratic solos on his trusty Trigger, the battered old classical guitar he's played for decades.
In a black jacket and his trademark braids, with a red, white and blue guitar strap around his neck, Nelson was flanked by sons Micah and Lukas as he welcomed to the stage old friend Kris Kristofferson, who joined his outlaw brother on a suitably ragged version of Hank Williams' "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)." MORE HERE & HERE
Willie performed at the New Orleans Jazz Fest last week too. MORE HERE. Video HERE, HERE & HERE
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