GLEE star Kevin McHale Joins MUSE/IQUE for Concert of Beatles' White Album Music

MUSE/IQUE, known for its inspired, unexpected live music events, deconstructs
Beatles music through classical, alt-country, gospel, rock and soul filters
when it launches its 2013-14 “Uncorked” series with “Self/Titled: The Beatles,
The White Album, The Rose Palace,” featuring GLEE star Kevin Michael McHale on Monday, October 14,
2013, 7:30 pm, at Phoenix
Decorating Company’s Rose Palace Warehouse in Pasadena, which houses up to a
dozen mammoth Rose Parade floats in various states of construction.  Artistic director/conductor Rachael
Worby curates an evening of Beatles music under MUSE/IQUE’s
entertaining “microscope” with such classics as "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da!," "Back in the U.S.S.R.," "Rocky
Raccoon," "Blackbird," and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”  Joining McHale, who plays wheelchair-bound
Artie Abrams in FOX's award winning TV show, on the roster of special guests is
the Charlie Greene Band, noted for its
soulful swamp
pop and alt-country; a string quartet led by MUSE/IQUE
Violinist Julie Rogers; electric guitarist Michael Brook; and a sextet from
Pasadena’s Selah Gospel Choir, acclaimed for its “emotive and bewitching” performances.  A complimentary pre-concert cocktail hour for
ticket holders begins at 6:30 pm followed by the 7 pm concert.

“The Rose Palace's industrial
space, with its looming floats-in-progress, and our eclectic group of guest
artists casting contemporary light on Beatles’ music perfectly frame
MUSE/IQUE’s ‘take’ on the Beatles as we examine the brilliant construction of
their songs and the counter-conventional influences that inspired their music
towards the later stages of the band’s career,” says Worby.

The Beatle's White Album,
hailed by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time, has sold more than
20 million copies since the double recording was released in 1968 when the
British pop group was at the pinnacle of its global influence.

MUSE/IQUE’s “Uncorked”
series is made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission and
the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division. 

The Rose Palace is located at 835 S. Raymond Ave.,
Pasadena California 91103.  Parking is available
at the Fillmore Station parking structure at 750 South Raymond Avenue (about
1/2 block away with an entrance on the east side of Raymond Avenue just sound
of Fillmore Street).  Tickets are $50 per
person.  Tickets are also free with
MUSE/IQUE membership, which ranges from $125 to $1,000 and includes a variety
of special benefits.  For tickets and
membership information, please call 626-539-7085 or visit www.muse-ique.com.