Ben Lee To Perform With West Australian Orchestra

Ben released his sixth solo recording, Ripe in September 2007. The album, which was produced by John Alagia (John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, Ben Folds Five) continues Ben’s trademark pop craftsmanship, sense of humor and uncontainable passion for life as well as representing a marked maturity in form.

Ben headed the well-regarded teen-pop act Noise Addict when he was 14, drawing the attention of such well-respected names as Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and the Beastie Boys’ Mike D., who released Lee’s first two solo albums on the Grand Royal label. His first Inertia Recordings release, 2005’s ‘Awake is the New Sleep’, was the one to put him over the top, winning four ARIAs and featuring smash hit “Catch My Disease,” as heard on everything from Grey’s Anatomy to Deuce Bigalo: European Gigolo.

Following the enormously successful tradition of george, The Whitlams, Ben Folds, Tim Rogers, Tex Perkins and Augie March, this concert will see one of Australia’s most successful acts play his songs for the first time with full symphony orchestra. ‘Gamble Everything for Love’, and ‘We are all in This Together’, are just two of the hit songs that will receive orchestral treatment by Australian composers for performance under the stars on Saturday 1 March.

Gates open at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial, King’s Park & Botanic Garden, from 5pm, Saturday 1 March. Special guests, Perth’s own, New Rules for Boats will open the musical proceedings at 6.15pm, with Ben Lee and WASO taking the stage at 8pm.

This concert forms part of the Synergy Summer Symphony Series and is known as the Ernst & Young Pops in the Park. -- www.waso.com.au