Ben Folds
Wed, Sep 13
|Paramount Center for the Arts
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2023, 6:30 PM
Paramount Center for the Arts, 518 State St, Bristol, TN 37620, USA
About the event
Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm
$76.54 - $140 (prices include all applicable fees and taxes ) / Members save at least $5 per ticket
“More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful,” says Ben Folds. “I want you to finish this record with something you didn’t have when you started.”
Indeed, Folds’ masterful new collection, What Matters Most, isn’t so much a statement as it is an offering, an open hand reaching out to all those wounded and bewildered by a world that seems to make less and less sense every day. Recorded in East Nashville with co-producer Joe Pisapia, the album marks Folds’ first new studio release in eight years, and it’s a bold, timely, cinematic work, one that examines the tragic and the absurd in equal measure as it reckons with hope and despair, gratitude and loss,…