Walker’s first solo record, Nevertheless, released in 1994, launching his solo career in Europe. The Alias CD earned platinum sales throughout the world, and the song “Waiting for Love” received a BMI Award for top radio airplay that year. In 1991, Walker co-wrote the song “Waiting for Love” for the band Alias on EMI Capitol Records, and it went on to become Walker’s first top-10 international hit.
At the age of 21, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked as a songwriter and collaborated with a number of artists and songwriters, including Survivor, Nick Gilder, Jonathan Cain (Journey), Russ Ballard, Carl Dixon and Alias featuring Freddy Curci. As singer-songwriter, musician, and publisher Walker’s music was heard on over 300 network television shows, including One Life to Live, All My Children, The Young and the Restless, One Tree Hill, Felicity, CSI: Miami, Everwood, Malcolm in the Middle, Baywatch, and Sex and the City, National Lampoon’s Barely Legal.īrett Walker was born in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Walker was involved in music publishing on TV and film. In attendance at the Inn: Erica Nuckles, Steve and Sally Nuckles, Ron Rohall, Emily Barth, Lothar and Mary Alice Schaltinat, Don and Jacqui Baughman, Tom and Beverly Ravida, Chris Mitchell, Anjulie Mitchell and Lisa Sullenberger.Brett Walker (Novem– July 8, 2013) was an American songwriter, musician, and record producer.
Lending an air of authenticity to the event were re-enactors from Baltimore-based Ship’s Company Living History Inc., including Cole Grinnell, Will Knight and Michael Bosworth, who were on hand for a weekend-long living history program. So pleased were organizers with the turnout for the event, Rohall said, that they hope to repeat it next summer. Parched throats were soothed with strawberry or lemon-flavored shrub, a popular period beverage made with a syrup of water, fruit, sugar and vinegar added to either spirits or soft drinks.
Ham and buns for sliders were prepared in the Inn’s cookhouse, with the ham baked according to a period recipe, said Theresa Gay Rohall, executive director of Ligonier Valley Historical Society, which operates the museum. There was no cause for gossip as Walker’s students gamely joined hands to learn the intricate 19th-century dance floor moves, with music provided by Pittsburgh-based Wayward Companions, an ensemble of classically trained musicians who perform selections in a style familiar to early American parlors and taverns.ĭancers were bolstered prior to the lesson with a bountifully supplied grazing table, courtesy of Simply Good, a Ligonier catering service. “So she has to be very discriminating in who she refuses.” “That could become the talk of the town, and you can’t have that,” Walker said. If she declines one partner and then accepts another, the lady has signaled that she doesn’t particularly like the first gentleman. “If a lady refuses to dance with one gentleman, she has essentially refused to dance with all the gentlemen that evening,” said English country dance master Brett Walker of Ligonier, a former member of the Colonial Williamsburg Dance Ensemble. The event was held Saturday evening on the grounds of the historical complex in Laughlintown. Guests at the inaugural Midsummer Night’s Ball at Compass Inn Museum learned colonial dance steps, along with associated etiquette.
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