Carpenter slates summer gigs
The tour will feature Carpenter alongside a full five-piece band: Jon Carroll on keys, John Jennings and Jim Henry on guitar, Don Dixon on bass and Vince Santoro on drums. A fall tour in October and November is planned and will be announced soon.
"The Age of Miracles," which is Carpenter's 11th studio album, was recorded in Nashville and produced by Carpenter and long-time collaborator Matt Rollings
Tour dates are:
June 15 Arvada, CO Arvada Center Summer Concert Series
June 16 Boulder, CO Chautauqua Park Auditorium
June 18 Reno, NV Grand Sierra
June 19 Napa, CA Uptown Theatre
June 21 Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery
June 23 Jacksonville, OR Britt Pavilion
June 24 Eugene, OR Jaqua Concert Hall
June 25 Portland, OR Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre
June 26 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre
July 13 Kent, OH Kent Stage
July 14 Grand Rapids, MI Meijer Gardens Amphitheatre
July 15 Traverse City, MI Traverse City Opera House
July 16 Lexington, KY Lexington Opera House
July 17 Pittsburgh, PA Hartwood Acres Amphitheatre
July 20-21 Brownfield, ME Stone Mountain Arts Center
July 22 Rockland, ME The Historic Strand Theatre
July 24 Hillsdale, NY Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
July 31 Cambridge, UK Cambridge Folk Festival
Aug. 11 Wilmington, NC Brooklyn Arts Center
Aug. 12 Charlotte, NC Knight Theater
Aug. 13 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Aug. 18 Boston, MA Wilbur Theater
Aug. 19 New Bedford, MA The Ziterion
Aug. 20 Highmount, NY Belleayre Music Festival
Aug. 24 Bethlehem, PA Musikfest Café
Aug. 25 Richmond, VA Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
Aug. 26 Norfolk, VA Sandler Center
Aug. 27 Vienna, VA Wolf Trap
More news for Mary Chapin Carpenter
- 02/10/25: Carpenter, Clark join forces
- 01/24/25: Brown, Myers, Springsteen, McNown drop new music
- 01/10/25: Carpenter, Fowlis, Polwart open up with new song
- 03/07/22: Carpenter slates summer tour, dates with Emmylou
- 08/07/20: Bryan, Carpenter unveil new sounds
- 07/10/20: Carpenter is out with "Secret Keepers"
- 06/12/20: Carpenter readies "The Dirt And The Stars"
- 04/09/19: Carpenter, Colvin set tour
CD reviews for Mary Chapin Carpenter
There is an air of quiet reflection on Mary Chapin Carpenter's 15th studio album. Although its 11 tracks were written and recorded prior to the global pandemic, "The Dirt and the Stars" is an appropriate artistic statement for these times - days in which socially-isolated people are left with more time to contemplate life and the human condition.
Recorded live at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, England under the watchful eye of producer Ethan Johns, Carpenter ...
Artists with Ivy League degrees are just like us, but they can see into the future a little ahead of time. Brown graduate Mary Chapin Carpenter was writing wry feminist anthems like "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" and "The Hard Way" over25 years ago. And even those songs were from her fourth studio album - Carpenter's full career spans since the late '80s. She's remained a critical fave from the start, but her luster as a country music ingenue has long worn off. ...
Mary Chapin Carpenter revisits 10 songs - not her greatest hits by any stretch - from her two-decade plus career with a twist. No guitars or anything else resembling her typical instrumentation (jazz drummer Peter Erskine contributes). Instead, Carpenter is often only backed by an orchestra on what is being billed as her debut orchestral record.
Carpenter recorded the disc at London's AIR Studios with a 63-piece orchestra and 15-voice choir, the latter being under the radar screen throughout. ...
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