Live Shawn McDonald

New live music from Shawn McDonald will be available on SonyConnect.com, featuring an 8-song collection from an exclusive acoustic set, Shawn’s recent performance at Sony

The Sony Connect Set offers the first recorded listen of "Hush," a song heavily requested by fans, but never recorded until now. Since adding the song to his live shows, diehard fans on MySpace and fan blogs are talking about the song, exhibiting a great appetite for new Shawn McDonald music.

Shawn McDonald has a loyal and active fan base who keeps in touch with him through his MySpace page, where he has more than 51,000 MySpace 'friends' to date. Fans will have the opportunity to experience Shawn's unique performance style 'live' this fall, when he returns to the US from England's Greenbelt Festival for The "Ripen" Tour which includes shows stretching from California to Florida and up into the Northeast. (See Suite's "Ripen" review here).

"I never have a set list, and I never play the same show twice," says Shawn, and this fall, Napster Live will feature a unique live audio performance and interview, placing McDonald on the prominent site alongside Ray LaMontagne, Natasha Bedingfield and John Legend. The taping includes unique instruments and arrangements and ranks McDonald as the first EMI CMG artist to record a session for the site.