Ben Folds

with opener Lindsey Kraft

Ben Folds is widely recognized as a significant music influencer of our generation. He is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer who has created a vast body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records.

For the past thirty years, Folds has toured as a pop artist while also performing with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras. He is a New York Times Best Selling author and podcast host, has composed for film, TV and theatre, and serves as the Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

A longtime advocate for arts and music education funding, Folds 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 provide free or affordable music lessons to interested school-age children. On the national level, he’s active as a member of Americans For The Arts and the Arts Action Fund.