{"id":30063,"date":"2024-08-05T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/david-byrne-to-host-amazing-humans-doing-amazing-things-live-variety-show\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T12:04:02","slug":"david-byrne-to-host-amazing-humans-doing-amazing-things-live-variety-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/david-byrne-to-host-amazing-humans-doing-amazing-things-live-variety-show\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne to host &#8216;Amazing Humans Doing Amazing Things&#8217; live variety show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-02\/Getty_DavidByrne_080224.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Craig Barritt\/Getty Images for The New Yorker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>David Byrne<\/strong> is set to host a live variety show in New York this fall to help celebrate the\u00a0fifth anniversary of his solutions-based nonprofit magazine <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Reasons to be Cheerful<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, a project of the <strong>Talking Heads<\/strong> frontman\u2019s nonprofit,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arbutus.world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1 s2\"><strong>Arbutus<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The one-night-only event, dubbed <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Amazing Humans Doing Amazing Things<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, will take place Oct. 8 at Town Hall in New York, with Byrne handling the emcee duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cVariety shows were a big deal when I was young. It&#8217;s a format you don&#8217;t see as much of these days. So we thought, why not bring it back?\u201d Byrne shares. \u201cWe looked for acts that could capture that sense of zany, anything-could-happen artistry. Reasons to be Cheerful inspires people by unearthing unexpected gems, and this show will embody that same spirit of gleeful surprise.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Artists confirmed for <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Amazing Humans Doing Amazing Things<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> include comedian <strong>Fred Armisen<\/strong>,\u00a0the band <strong>Brass Queens<\/strong>, comedian and ventriloquist <strong>Nina Conti<\/strong>, raunchy puppetry group <strong>Epidermis Circus<\/strong>\u00a0and singer-songwriter <strong>Thao<\/strong>, with additional acts to be added in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets are on sale now. Proceeds from the show will benefit Reasons to be Cheerful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Barritt\/Getty Images for The New Yorker David Byrne is set to host a live variety show in New York this fall to help celebrate the\u00a0fifth anniversary of his solutions-based nonprofit magazine Reasons to be Cheerful, a project of the Talking Heads frontman\u2019s nonprofit,\u00a0Arbutus. The one-night-only event, dubbed Amazing Humans<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/david-byrne-to-host-amazing-humans-doing-amazing-things-live-variety-show\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}