Date/Time
Date(s) - Sat, Jul 12th, 2014
8:00 PM
Location
North Carolina Museum of Art
Band/Artist Page(s)
Saturday, July 12 | 8 pm
(Doors open at 6:30 pm)
$30 ($25 Members) Reserved
$24 ($19 Members) General admission
$12 Youth 7–18, General admission only
Children 6 and under free, General admission only
The NCMA welcomes two of America’s most distinctive and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters.
Born in Chapel Hill, Loudon Wainwright III is an artist of exceptional versatility. The most recent of his 22 albums, Older Than My Old Man Now, was one of NPR’s top 10 albums of 2012. High Wide & Handsome, inspired by North Carolina banjo player Charlie Poole, won the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2010. And if you were around in the 1970s, his hit novelty song “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road” is likely to be etched in your memory. Wainwright’s songs have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, the McGarrigle sisters (he was married to Kate McGarrigle and is the father of Rufus and Martha Wainwright), and other prominent artists.
Wainwright has also appeared in films directed by Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Christopher Guest, Tim Burton, Cameron Crowe, and Judd Apatow. He played Calvin Spalding, the singing surgeon, in the television version of M*A*S*H and has contributed music to movies and television shows
