Live Tribute Events
- Greetings from Tim Buckley (Brooklyn 1991)
- Nevermore: Poems & Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Brooklyn 1995), which led to the album Closed on Account of Rabies (1997), then Hal Willner's Halloween Show: Never Bet the Devil your Head (Los Angeles 2002), then Closed on Account of Rabies: Poems and Tales of Edgar Allen Poe (Los Angeles 2001)
- Tribute to Allen Ginsberg (Los Angeles)
- Marquis de Sade's writings (New York 1998)
- The Harry Smith Project (London 1999, Los Angeles 2001)
- The Doc Pomus Project (New York City 2001)
- Came So Far for Beauty, An Evening of Songs by Leonard Cohen (Brooklyn 2003, Brighton 2004, Sydney 2005, Dublin 2006)
- Dream Comfort Memory Despair: The Songs of Neil Young (Brooklyn 2004), followed by Hal Willner's Neil Young Project (Vancouver 2010 Olympics)
- Perfect Partners: Nino Rota & Federico Fellini (London 2004)
- Shock and Awe: The Songs of Randy Newman (Los Angeles 2004)
- Forest of No Return: Hal Willner Presents Vintage Disney Songbook (London 2007), followed by Stay Awake: 20th anniversary of the classic recording of Disney songs (Brooklyn 2008) (Hal Willner's Stay Awake at UCLA was scheduled for October 30, 2008, but was cancelled due to unavailability of some performers)
- Rogue's Gallery (NYC 2007, Dublin 2008, London 2008, Gateshead 2008, Sydney 2010)
- Hal Willner's Bill Withers Project (Brooklyn 2008)
- Begats: Readings of the Work of Burroughs, DeSade & Poe (Brooklyn 2009)
- Gotta Right to Sing the Blues? Music and Readings from A Fine Romance, Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (NYC 2010)
- An Evening with Gavin Friday and Friends (New York, Carnegie Hall, 2009)
- Hal Willner's Freedom Riders Project (Brooklyn 2011)
- Shelebration: The Works of Shel Silverstein (New York 2011)
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