AN EVENING WITH VALERIE SIMPSON

Music Program Segment 

2011 / Editing

An Evening With Valerie Simpson In Honor of Nick Ashford is an hour-long, live-to-tape PBS-TV interview program that showcased the wonderful life and career of the legendary singer/songwriter duo Ashford & Simpson. Taped in 2011 at Northwestern University Law School's Thorne Auditorium, An Evening With Valerie Simpson In Honor of Nick Ashford featured the first public interview of R&B icon Valerie Simpson after the untimely passing of her husband and songwriting partner, Nick Ashford. Simpson was candid, revealing and witty as she talked about she and Nick Ashford's chart-topping career.

Written by: Julieanna Richardson, Ray Chew, George Faison

Segment Edited by: Jerry Vasilatos

Produced by: PBS, The History Makers

Starring: Valerie Simpson, Nick Ashford

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An Evening With Valerie Simpson In Honor of Nick Ashford