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BEN FOLDS

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TICKET INFORMATION

* $1 from every ticket will be donated to Ben Folds charity Keys For Kids. Learn more about his charity here.
* Ticket prices subject to change.

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Location(s):

McGrath Amphitheatre

SCHEDULE

Food Court: 6:00 p.m.
Gates: 7:00 p.m.

Showtime: 8:00 p.m.

*Door times subject to change

BLANKETS & CHAIRS

Reserved Seating - Each ticket an Orchestra or Terrace section includes a chair.
GA Pit - Standing room only. No blankets/chairs permitted.

PARKING

Street parking is available at the McGrath Amphitheatre along 1st Street as well as the Third Avenue bridge.

INCLEMENT WEATHER

Event is rain or shine. Please be sure to review our weather policies.

PROHIBITED ITEMS

Please review our list of prohibited items prior to arrival. For this venue, umbrellas are NOT permitted.

BAGS & PURSES

The following purses/bags are permitted:

Clear purses/bags
Wristlets/clutches smaller than 8"x5"
Diaper bags
Medical bags

All other bags are prohibited. View full purse & bag policy.

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Due to forecasted weather for Wednesday, the Ben Folds concert is being moved INDOORS out of an abundance of caution. Ben Folds will perform at the ALLIANT ENERGY POWERHOUSE on Wednesday, August 8th at 8:00 p.m.

BEN FOLDS

WHAT MATTERS MOST TOUR

Born and raised in North Carolina, Folds first rose to fame in the mid-’90s with Ben Folds Five, whose acerbic, genre-bending take on piano pop helped define an entire era of alternative rock. After scoring multiple hit singles and a gold record with the band, Folds launched his solo career in 2001, releasing a series of similarly acclaimed albums that would firmly establish him as one of the most ambitious and versatile songwriters of his generation. In 2010, Folds teamed up with celebrated author Nick Hornby on a collaborative record titled Lonely Avenue; in 2014, he composed his first piano concerto; in 2015, he recorded an album with the classical ensemble yMusic; in 2017, he became the artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, where he began curating a series of performances marrying contemporary artists with symphonic orchestration; in 2019, he released his New York Times best-selling memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs; and in 2021, he launched the Lightning Bugs podcast, an interview series on creativity and process with guests as diverse as Jon Batiste, Sara Bareilles, Bob Saget, and Rainn Wilson. As if that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, Folds also revealed himself to be a prolific photographer with gallery shows in the US and Europe, appeared onscreen in films and television (most recently playing himself in three episodes of the hit Amazon Prime series The Wilds), composed music for a 25-minute stage adaptation of Mo Willem’s Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (which premiered at the Kennedy Center), and serves on the boards of the Arts Action Fund, the Nashville Symphony and Planet Word, a new immersive museum in Washington, DC, dedicated to celebrating the power of language.

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