Check out the 9/19 article by Bill Kopp in the Mountain Xpress about our upcoming October 10 performance with Ben Folds:
Ben Folds has always enjoyed defying expectations. The band he led for many years, Ben Folds Five, was a trio, not a quintet. And while the Winston-Salem native is no comedy act, a sense of humor informs his emotionally rich, supremely melodic works, music he once characterized as “punk rock for sissies.”
Having conquered multiple musical forms and media, these days he seamlessly blends his rock sensibilities with orchestral accompaniment. Joined by the Asheville Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Darko Butorac, Folds comes to the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on Friday, Oct. 10…
