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music news: Joan Baez and Mary Chapin Carpenter at CITI Wang Center on October 8, 2016
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on April 22, 2016
Joan Baez
Joan Baez’s career began in the late 1950s at the famed Club 47 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She performed at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. She released her first LP, Joan Baez, for Vanguard Records in 1960.Baez’s most recent album, Day After Tomorrow, carries on Joan’s tradition of serving as a lightning rod for a wide array of songwriters, with material by Steve Earle, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and others, and was nominated for a Grammy. She’s released 24 albums in her career.
Baez marched on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement with Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired Vaclav Havel to fight for a Czech Republic, and participated in two of the early Amnesty International tours – the Conspiracy of Hope tour in 1986 and the Human Rights Now! tour in 1988. She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight at Berkeley, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war. Joan Baez is a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and recipient of Amnesty International’s prestigious Ambassador of Conscience award.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter has recorded 14 albums and sold over 14 million records. Hits include “Passionate Kisses” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her.” She has won five Grammy Awards (with 15 nominations), two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music awards for her vocals and is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Most recently, in 2014, Carpenter released her acclaimed debut orchestral album, Songs From The Movie. Arranged and co-produced by six-time Grammy winner Vince Mendoza, the record is comprised of ten previously recorded compositions including “Between Here and Gone” and “Come On Come On.” Carpenter has performed alongside the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra, the L.A. Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra among many others. At this show, Mary Chapin Carpenter will perform songs from new album The Things That We Are Made Of (Lambent Light Records) out May 6, 2016. She will be joined by pianist Jon Carroll and guitarist Johnny Duke.
Tickets on-sale Friday, April 22, 2016 at 10am.
Reserved seat tickets are $43.75 -$98.75 (includes $3.75 facility fee) and go on sale Friday, April 22 at 10:00 AM without service charges at the Wang Theatre box office located at 270 Tremont Street. Tickets may also be ordered online starting at 10:00 AM at Ticketmaster or by phone by calling 800.982.2787. Applicable service charges will apply. To order tickets via TTD, dial 800.943.4327. Normal box office hours are 12:00 Noon – 6:00 PM Tuesday – Saturday. The Wang box office accepts all major credit cards.
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