Carpenter embarks on acoustic tour
Pianist Jon Carroll and multi-instrumentalist John Doyle will accompany Carpenter with special guest opener Tift Merritt.
Carpenter released her debut orchestral record, "Songs from the Movie," in January. Recorded at Air Studios in London, the album was arranged and conducted by Vince Mendoza and was produced by Carpenter and Mendoza along with Matt Rollings. Featured on the album are new interpretations of 10 songs by Carpenter, including "Between Here and Gone" and "Come On Come On."
In addition to the acoustic tour, Carpenter will continue to perform select orchestral concerts this fall, including a show at Royal Albert Hall with the The London Concert Orchestra on Sept. 29.
Orchestral tour dates are:
Sept. 21 New Albany, OH Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center *
Sept. 29 London, UK Royal Albert Hall $
Sept. 30 Gateshead, UK The Sage Gateshead @@
Oct. 1 Manchester, UK Bridgewater Hall #
Oct. 2 Edinburgh, UK Usher Hall **
Acoustic tour dates are:
Oct. 10 Santa Barbara, CA Lobero Theatre$$
Oct. 11 Thousand Oaks, CA Fred Kavli Theatre $$
Oct. 12 Cerritos, CA Cerritos Center for the Arts $$
Oct. 14 & 15 Berkeley, CA Freight & Salvage (SOLD OUT)
Oct. 16 Chico, CA Laxon Auditorium $$
Oct. 22 Westbury, NY The Space at Westbury $$
Oct. 23 Tarrytown, NY Tarrytown Music Hall $$
Oct. 24 Northampton, MA Calvin Theatre $$
Oct. 25 Hartford, CT Infinity Hall $$
Oct. 26 Lebanon, NH Lebanon Opera House $$
Nov. 7 Clearwater, FL Capitol Theatre $$
Nov. 8 Melbourne, FL King Center $$
Nov. 9 Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre
Nov. 10 Newberry, SC Newberry Opera House $$
Nov. 11 Durham, SC Carolina Theater $$
Nov. 13 Florence, SC Francis Marion Performing Arts Center $$
Nov. 15 Bristol, TN Paramount Center for the Arts
Nov. 18 Wilmington, DE Grand Opera House $$
Nov. 19 Ridgefield, CT Ridgefield Playhouse $$
Nov. 20 West Long Branch, NJ Pollack Theatre $$
Nov. 21-22 Rockport, MA Shalin Liu Performance Center $$
* with the New Albany Symphony Orchestra
$ with The London Concert and special guest Benjamin Scheuer
@@ with Royal Northern Sinfonia and special guest Benjamin Scheuer
# with Manchester Camerata and special guest Benjamin Scheuer
** with The Festival Orchestra and special guest Benjamin Scheuer
$$ with special guest Tift Merritt
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
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Recorded live at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, England under the watchful eye of producer Ethan Johns, Carpenter ...
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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.
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