2025–26 BRIGHT STAR SEASON
Ben Folds
& A Piano Tour
With Special Guest
Lindsey Kraft
Friday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Main Theatre
Orchestra Pit: $110
Main Floor: $89
Lower Balcony: $69
Upper Balcony: $59
Plus a $3 convenience fee and $1 facility fee per ticket.
All orders will include a 5.5% sales tax.
Ben Folds is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter who has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, a holiday album, and numerous collaborative records.
He currently tours as a pop artist, while also performing for over two decades with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras.
Folds served for eight years as the first Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In Oct. 2024, Folds recorded two sold out performances with the NSO which he released as a live album in July 2024, which debuted at the top of the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.
A New York Times Best Selling author, Folds also creates new music for film, TV and theatre, with original new music he composed to be featured in an animated Peanuts special airing this summer on Apple TV.
In 2022, he launched a music education charitable initiative in his native state of North Carolina entitled “Keys For Kids,” which provides funds and keyboards to existing nonprofits that offer free or affordable piano lessons to school-age children from economically-disadvantaged households. For the past 15 years he has been an outspoken advocate for arts funding, music education and music therapy in the US as a member of Americans For The Arts and the Arts Action Fund.
Special Guest: Lindsey Kraft:
Lindsey Kraft is a multi-faceted artist–actress, singer, and composer. You may recognize her from various TV roles including Netflix's Grace and Frankie, HBO's Getting On, and most recently Netflix's Obliterated. She continues as the opening act for Ben Folds, where she'll be performing her brand of theatrical pop songs from her musical, love, me, a one-woman show workshopped recently in LA for a LIVE album. She characterizes her songs as deeply personal, funny, and sad, her sound inspired by Carly Simon, Carole King, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Randy Newman, and Broadway (but like, only the good shows).
SPONSORED BY: Mid–West Family and River Valley Media Group
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