Josh performed at “A Celebration of Paul Newman’s Dream” event to benefit Paul Newman’s Association of Hole in the Wall Camps last week. The star-studded event took place in New York’s Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. A group on FOJG members met up to support Josh at this special show. Read straightarrow372's featured blog below. Also included are some photos from the night. Enjoy!

This was a truly great concert. I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

They alternated between the celebs and the kids. Some of these kids were really talented. There was a little person named Josh, introduced by our Josh, who was *so* funny and articulate, even though confined to a motorized wheelchair and on oxygen, that he got a standing ovation. There was a girl who sang a song, also, plus they had some testimonials and some choral numbers. I guess some of these kids have recovered somewhat, as most of them seemed ok on stage, though one talked of a friend of his who had died since camp.

There was a video appearance by Bill Clinton and audio by Joanne Woodward, and one of Paul Newman's daughters spoke.

I was very impressed by Elvis Costello. He sings beautifully, and used only the 4 strings players as a sort of classical quartet in the background.

To me, though, NaTasha Yvette Williams really stole the show with her rendition of "Firework" at the end. She just totally killed this song. I had never liked it all that well before tonight, but she really sang it the way it should be sung & now I love it. She's not a huge star, apparently -- doesn't seem to be on twitter -- but *so* talented.

Josh sang beautifully -- as always. His piano playing on "Changing Colors" came through much more clearly in Avery Fisher Hall, which has excellent acoustics, than it came through in the other concerts I have heard. That was particularly exquisite. As has been mentioned before, I think these songs were chosen because they fit in to the occasion.

Paul Simon's guitar playing was excellent. He changed the tunes to the vocals on some old chestnuts, which I wasn't so wild about.

Jimmy Fallon did a hilarious bit with one of the kids. The kid was up there nominally as an assistant, handing Jimmy cue cards, but also sort of hamming it up -- and then the cue cards started going off topic & praising the kid, which was very cute. It was also in keeping with the theme of the camp which is that seriously ill kids should be able to "kick back and raise a little hell" -- words of Paul Newman.

Tina Fey read a letter from a mom discussing her experience dropping off her very sick kid, which was very funny.

Jake Gyllenhaal was unfortunately limited to giving a fairly straightforward speech, which was not really exploiting his substantial acting talents, though it was good to see him.

Christian Hebel played on almost every number. He was very friendly to us on the way out. I hadn't had a chance to meet him before. He's much more handsome in person -- incredibly handsome really -- and looked *so* dashing with his violin slung over his back.

Grobies at dinner before the show (Photo by MAF11)

Photos below by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for SeriousFun Children's Network