CARRIE NEWCOMER

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CARRIE NEWCOMER with pianist Gary Walters

Sunday, November 7, 2021 / Doors 6:30 pm / Show 7:30 pm

All Ages

Seated

$28 Advance / $30 Day of Show

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CARRIE NEWCOMER

Carrie Newcomer is a songwriter, recording artist, performer, and educator. She has been described as a “prairie mystic” by the Boston Globe and, “asks all the right questions,” by Rolling Stone, “a voice as rich as Godiva chocolate.” by The Austin Statesman, and, "She's the kind of artist whose music makes you stop, think and then say, 'that is so true.’” by The Dallas Morning News. Recent appearances on PBS’s Religion and Ethics and the National Award Winning Krista Tippett’s On Being, have focused on her use of creative art-form as a spiritual/mindfulness practice, her work in social/ environmental justice, interfaith dialogue, progressive spirituality and as a champion for a new political conversation.

She has toured with Alison Krauss in Europe and the United States. Nickel Creek recorded Newcomer’s song, “I Should’ve Known Better,” on their Grammy-winning album, This Side. In the fall of 2009 and 2011 Newcomer was a cultural ambassador to India, invited by the American Embassy of India. In October 2011 she released her interfaith collaborative benefit album, Everything is Everywhere, with world master of the Indian Sarod, Amjad Ali Khan. In June 2012 Carrie Newcomer traveled to Kenya, Africa, performing in schools, hospitals, spiritual communities and AIDS hospitals. In 2013 Carrie visited organizations dedicated to nonviolent conflict resolution through the arts and the empowerment of women in the Middle East. Huffington Post Religion Community listed her song, “Holy as the Day is Spent,” as one of the best spiritual songs of 2012. She was listed as one of “the 50 most influential folk musicians of the past 50 years” by Chicago’s WFMT. Boston’s WBEZ listed her as one of the most influential folk artists of the last 25 years.

Her newest release is The Beautiful Not Yet (Available Light Records, September 2016). Other Available Light recordings include A Permeable Life and Everything is Everywhere. Newcomer also has 14 nationally releases on the Concord/Rounder Records including; The Geography of Light, The Gathering of Spirits, and Before and After. In 2014 Newcomer also released her first companion book, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays. Over half the songs on The Beautiful Not Yet were created for a spoken word/music collaboration with Parker J. Palmer entitled, What We Need is Here: Hope, Hard Times and Human Possibility.

Newcomer’s first theatrical production, Betty’s Diner: The Musical, was produced as part of the Purdue University 2015/2016 theatrical season to rave reviews and a totally sold out run. The music for Betty’s Diner: The Musical was written in collaboration with Richard K. Thomas and arranged by Gary Walters. Other recent collaborations with influential authors, scientists and theologians, include; Jill Bolte Taylor, Phillip Gulley, Scott Russell Sanders and Rabbi Sandy Sasso.

GARY WALTERS

I’ve been doing this a long time. Pre-internet, pre-computer even! But it’s never stopped being fun for me. I’ve learned new things throughout my career (including the internet and computers!) and that education has come from fellow musicians, from students, from good gigs, from bad gigs, from audience members and from all genre of music that I’ve ever played.

I grew up in Indianapolis. Studied music through a Bachelors degree at Ball state University. BUT… I was a percussionist, studying to work as an orchestra musician. My instructor, Erwin Mueller, taught me so much about how to practice, how to study a piece of music, and generally how to maintain the discipline needed to be a professional musician. During that time I played piano in the Ball State Jazz band and gigged around the area in various bands playing all styles of music, including jazz. Post college I dropped my percussionist life to devote myself to piano playing, but I still love the percussion section – heck, some of my best friends are…!

Lots of good and bad gigs followed while I first taught middle school band and general music in those early years post-college. Then more good and bad gigs followed as I worked a day job at an insurance company, typing policies first on a typewriter and then the new fancy-schmancy computers (PC) that were introduced to the company.

Finally, I was able to devote myself to only playing good and bad gigs while co-owning a small, not-profitable recording studio! After a few too many years trying to make the studio part work I was finally able to work mostly good and just a few bad gigs per year!

I also returned to teaching in 2000 with Butler University’s School of Music. I’ve been an adjunct professor of Applied Jazz Piano there ever since. Although as I tell my students, the only professor I ever knew was on Gilligan’s Island, so they can just call me Mister Walters!

Now my career is either play music, teach music, or write music. I couldn’t be luckier if I tried, but then, I guess I did try!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis, United States