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“An Evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter”
Comes to San Diego’s Historic Balboa Theatre
For One Night Only ~ Saturday, August 7, 2010
The Age Of Miracles Out On Zoë/Rounder
Records ~ Nationwide Tour Confirmed
Come enjoy “An Evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter”
for one night only ~ Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 8PM, at
the intimate Balboa Theatre, the perfect venue to showcase 5-time
Grammy Award-winning artist Mary Chapin Carpenter as she performs songs
off her critically acclaimed album, The Age of Miracles.
The only artist to have won 4 consecutive Grammy Awards
for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, she has sold more than 12 million
records during her career. She has performed on “Late Night with David
Letterman” and “Austin City Limits” TV shows & returns to perform
almost every summer at the popular Wolftrap outdoor venue. Carpenter’s
latest albums, The Calling (2007) and The Age of Miracles
(2010) have both been released to critical acclaim.
The Age of Miracles offers a snapshot of Mary Chapin
Carpenter’s life, which she calls a personal exploration of regret and
resilience. Written during and after her recovery from a life-threatening
pulmonary embolism, Carpenter looked inward to try to answer the unavoidable
question of “What Now?” The outcome is a collection of songs that blends
personal tales of discovery and experience with more distant and imagined
stories of one’s purpose and relationship to the universe.
The Age of Miracles is the twelfth studio album
from five-time Grammy award-winning Carpenter, including one Grammy-winning
and two Grammy-nominated albums. By combining folk, country, acoustic,
rock and blues, Carpenter has proven herself to be an artist for whom the
conventional boundaries of the music business disappear; she has always
professed a love for all kinds of music, and those influences come together
in songs that speak to the most personal of life’s details as well as
to the most universal.
Released to both critical and commercial acclaim, the
album, available now on Zoë/Rounder Records, debuted at #28 on the Billboard
200 and #1 on the Billboard Folk chart. Additionally, the Associated
Press praised the album as, “…a set of songs that are pretty and
often pretty terrific,” while the Boston Globe asserts, “Her voice
is still pure and graceful, and her viewpoint is still optimistic…”
Recorded in Nashville, the 12-track album was produced
by Carpenter and long-time collaborator Matt Rollings (Lyle Lovett, Keith
Urban) and recorded and mixed by Chuck Ainlay (Mark Knopfler, Sheryl Crow,
Willie Nelson). Carpenter was backed by a band that included Rollings (piano,
B-3 organ), Russ Kunkel (drums), Duke Levine (electric and acoustic guitar)
and Glenn Worf (bass). Of making the record, Carpenter notes, “the sessions
were charmed, in the way that intensely creative recording sessions can
be. The energy of the core band never flagged and the generosity of ideas
that flowed each day were utter gifts.” The album also features guest
vocals by Vince Gill on “I Put My Ring Back On” and Alison Krauss on
“I Was a Bird.”
Additionally, The Americana Association honored Carpenter
on April 27 with the esteemed “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech in Music
Award. The award recognizes artists who have used their work to raise awareness
and promote free speech through their music and other efforts. Past recipients
include Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, Judy
Collins, Charlie Daniels and Steve Earle.
Tickets go on sale to the public Tuesday, July 6 at
10AM. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.sdcivic.org/eventstickets/eventdetails.cfm?eventID=2215
, at the San Diego Civic Theatre box office or by calling
570-1100 (619/760/858 area codes). For more information, visit: http://www.SDBalboa.org
and http://www.marychapincarpenter.com
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WHEN: Saturday,
August 7, 2010
WHERE: Balboa
Theatre, 868 Fourth Avenue
TIME: 8PM
TICKETS: $30-$55;
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, July 6 at 10AM
TICKET PURCHASE: Civic Theatre
Ticket Office, 1100 Third Avenue
(619) 570-1100; Monday
– Friday, 10AM-6PM
Ticketmaster: (800)982-2787
THEATRE ADDRESS: 868 Fourth Ave, San
Diego 92101
PARKING: Paid
parking available in the NBC Building Garage at
225 Broadway.
Enter Broadway Circle from 2nd Ave.
and Broadway; to garage
entrance down-ramp on the
left, directly across
from the Levi’s Store.
WEBSITE:
http://www.SDBalboa.org
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