Season 40 – Celebrating Our Centennial!
With special guest Lindsey Kraft.
Emmy-nominated, multi-platinum selling music artist Ben Folds has announced his “Paper Airplane Request Tour”!
Fans during each of the shows will be invited to launch their song requests to the stage via paper airplanes.
Born and raised in North Carolina, Folds first rose to fame in the mid-’90s with Ben Folds Five, whose acerbic, genre-bending take on piano pop helped define an entire era of alternative rock. After scoring multiple hit singles and a gold record with the band, Folds launched his solo career in 2001, releasing a series of similarly acclaimed albums that would firmly establish him as one of the most ambitious and versatile songwriters of his generation. In 2010, Folds teamed up with celebrated author Nick Hornby on a collaborative record titled Lonely Avenue; in 2014, he composed and performed his first piano concerto for the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Ballet in 2015, he recorded an album with the classical ensemble yMusic; in 2017, he became the artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, where he began curating a series of performances marrying contemporary artists with symphonic orchestration; in 2019, he released his New York Times best-selling memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs; and in 2021, he launched the Lightning Bugs podcast, an interview series on creativity and process with guests as diverse as Jon Batiste, Sara Bareilles, Bob Saget, and Rainn Wilson.
Tickets: $75, $65, $55, student $30
A $1.00 fee will be added to each ticket to support Keys For Kids, a charitable initiative spearheaded by Ben Folds that provides free piano lessons to underserved children in his home state of North Carolina. To learn more, please visit: https://www.benfolds.com/keysforkids