Overview
| A Reserve | $119.90 |
| B Reserve | $89.90 |
Approximate Duration: 2 hours
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.
The tour features an intimate live musical experience, with Folds performing past and current hits, and sharing stories from his more than three decades as a platinum-selling singer-songwriter and former frontman for Ben Folds Five.
He currently tours as a pop artist, while also performing for over two decades with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras. As a solo artist, hits include ‘Rockin’ the Suburbs’, ‘The Luckiest’, ‘You Don’t Know Me’, ‘Still Fighting It’, ‘Still’ and as Ben Folds Five, ‘Brick’, ‘Army’, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Underground’, ‘Kate’, ‘Song for the Dumped’ and ‘One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces’
Folds, who served for eight years as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, stepped down from his post when Donald Trump announced his takeover of the Center. On October 25 and 26, 2024, just days before the US presidential election, Folds recorded two sold out performances with the NSO which he released as a live album in July which debuted at the top of the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.
A New York Times Best Selling author, Ben 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.
Support Act: Lindsey Kraft
Tickets
A Reserve
$119.90
B Reserve
$89.90
The Venue: Ulumbarra Theatre
Meaning ‘gather together’ or ‘meeting place’ in the language of the local Dja Dja Wurrung people, Bendigo’s Ulumbarra Theatre rises majestically from what was once the Sandhurst Gaol.
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