Benjamin Scheuer's Songs from THE LION Premieres in Full at The Bluegrass Situation

Scheuer will also mark the album release by hosting a one-night-only gallery show with photographer/collaborator Riya Lerner at the Leslie Lohman Prince St. Project Space inNew York City on June 7, featuring images from the pair's limited edition 2014 artist bookBetween Two Spaces. The event runs from 6:30-8:30 p.m. with free admission; 50 percent of all proceeds from the show's sales will benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. OnJune 10, Scheuer will perform at the Rubin Museum of Art's "Naked Soul" ConcertSeries in NYC. Tickets are available at http://bit.ly/1Sqadnu.

Songs from THE LION-available now for pre-order via iTunes and Amazon-features music from Scheuer's critically acclaimed one-man musical memoir THE LION, which has played sold-out runs off-Broadway, in London, and at theatres around the United States. THE LION recently celebrated its 200th performance of the National Tour. Scheuer wroteSongs from THE LION as he was playing gigs around his hometown of New York City. "I was singing about my dad, who died when I was thirteen. Singing about a romantic relationship I was in that went well until it went bad. Singing about my diagnosis with, treatment for, and cure of advanced stage cancer."

Scheuer goes on to elaborate, "Record producer Geoff Kraly and I decided that we wanted the production on Songs from THE LION to fulfill the same purpose that the lighting, set design, directing, acting, costume design and all that stuff fulfills in the theatre show. In many ways, this album sounds the way I hear the songs in my head while I'm performingTHE LION in a theatre."

The record features performances from drummer Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails) and bassistChris Morrissey (Sara Bareilles), was engineered by Grammy Award-winner Pat Dillett(Sufjan Stevens, David Byrne, Nile Rodgers) and mixed in part by Kevin Killen (Peter Gabriel, U2, David Bowie).

THE LION has won numerous awards in both the U.S. and U.K., including the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, a 2015 Theatre World Award, and the Off-West End Award for Best New Musical.

Scheuer, hailed by the New York Times for his "reflective pop-folk songs with catchy choruses and just the occasional burst of angst," has also toured with Mary Chapin Carpenter (who authored the liner notes for Songs from THE LION) and performed at venues including New York's Lincoln Center and London's Royal Albert Hall. Scheuer is also the first musical guest to have performed on "The Charlie Rose Show."

The Peter Baynton-directed video for Scheuer's "Weather the Storm" recently won the Public Choice Award for Best Music Video at the British Animation Awards; Scheuer has also won prizes for his two previous collaborations with Baynton on the videos for "Cookie-tin Banjo" and "THE LION."

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