BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.5// X-WR-CALNAME:www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco X-WR-CALDESC:www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130518T223854CEST-5353cZhK6B@www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco DTSTAMP:20130518T200554Z DESCRIPTION:\nBorn into a well-known Australian show business family\, Hele n Reddy has had a life and a career richer and more varied than anything s he could ever have imagined as a girl in Melbourne. She has dined on her b irthday with the Prince of Wales\, danced in the White House with the Pres ident of the United States\, and had a tulip named after her in Holland. Best known as a recording artist\, Helen Reddy had more than a dozen Top 4 0 hits in the United States. She was the first Australian to win a Grammy Award and to have three #1 hits in the same year. In television\, Helen wa s the first Australian to host her own one-hour weekly primetime variety s how on an American network\, along with several specials that were seen in over forty countries.\n\nIn theater\, Helen has starred in London&rsquo\; s West End and on Broadway in New York. As a solo concert artist\, she has played at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York\, as well as the R oyal Albert Hall and the Palladium in London. Helen was also the first wes tern female performer invited to sing in the People&rsquo\;s Republic of C hina. In film\, her starring role in Disney&rsquo\;s Pete&rsquo\;s Dragon continues to delight the younger generation\, while the lyrics she penned for her feminist anthem &ldquo\;I Am Woman&rdquo\; are now included in Mod ern American History high school textbooks. Besides the compilation\, The Woman I Am: The Definitive Collection\, most of Helen&rsquo\;s early recor dings are now available for digital download worldwide.\n\nHer best-sellin g memoir The Woman I Am (Tarcher/Penguin)\, reveals that at the height of her career\, Helen&rsquo\;s world was shattered by the death of both her p arents and\, simultaneously\, the news that she had a rare and incurable d isease\, A riveting\, frank and ultimately brave memoir\, she recounts the emotional highs and lows that have shaped her life as an artist and as a complex woman\, with a rich inner life sustained by a strong spiritual fai th.\n\nHelen retired from live performance in 2002 and practiced as a clin ical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker in her native Australia for t en years. \; But after singing a duet with her sister at her sister&rs quo\;s 80th birthday party\, Helen decided to come out of retirement in Ju ly\, 2012 and return to the stage where\, in addition to some of her hits\ , she now treats audiences to songs from her vast catalog she had never be fore performed live. \; \;\nHelen Reddy's website DTSTART:20121003T200000 DTEND:20121004T220000 DURATION:PT3H LOCATION:San Francisco SUMMARY:An Intimate Evening with HELEN REDDY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR