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PAVILION
STEVE KESSLER
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JIMMY WEBB
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JOHNNY RIVERS
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Ravinia debut
PARK88
Based in Park City, UT, Park is the musical
marriage of award-winning, gritty-voiced pi-
ano player Rich Wyman and singer-songwrit-
er-storyteller Lisa Needham.
e duo has been
harmonizing musically and personally from
early in their relationship.
e couple married
and raised two sons while juggling individ-
ual creative pursuits. Needham founded the
Park City Divas and put her New York–trained
method acting (and Emerson College BFA) to
work, performing her acclaimed one-woman
show. Meanwhile, Wyman toured and recorded
as the frontman for various incarnations of the
Rich Wyman Band, yet the sultry backup vocals
on the majority of his albums belong to Need-
ham. Wyman has not only topped international
charts as a solo artist; he’s worked in the studio
with Eddie Van Halen and shared the stage with
such artists as Alanis Morissette and the Goo
Goo Dolls. Wyman met Van Halen in Park City,
and the pair soon began meeting instead at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s
Studio in Los
Angeles. Along with engineer Andy Johns (Led
Zeppelin, Rolling Stones), they spent several
years working together making music that was
featured on Wyman’s second album,
Fatherless
Child
. As the disc climbed the charts in Europe,
Wyman signed with a label in e Netherlands
and cra ed a new album that produced two
top- hits in the country. He has also toured
the United States, Ireland, England, Germany,
Switzerland, and Belgium, among other locales.
With their children now grown, the couple de-
cided to revisit the idea of bringing music and
their marriage together with Park , a nod to
their home and the number of keys on a piano—
the two elements that brought them happiness.
Park is making its Ravinia debut.
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