Josh Ritter Tickets:
Tickets for Josh Ritter are ($65/$50/$35) are available at scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. St. Cecilia Music Center is located at 24 Ransom Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.
St. Cecilia Music Center (SCMC) brings dynamic folk singer/songwriter Josh Ritter to the Royce Auditorium stage on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Josh Ritter is known as one of the leading voices on the Americana stage with his prolific songwriting, deep impressive voice, quick wit, and expressive way with words. Starting with his breakout 2000 debut album, Ritter hit his stride in 2007 with the release of The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, a blend of rock, country, and blues. In 2013 he released Beast in Its Tracks which has been compared to Beck's 2002 album, Sea Change, and Bob Dylan's autobiographical Blood on the Tracks. His albums, Gathering in 2017 and Fever Breaks in 2019, pushed the boundaries of folk and Americana further and increased Ritter's fame and reverence as a modern singer/songwriter.
Executive & Artistic Director of SCMC Cathy Holbrook says, “We are excited to present Josh Ritter, dynamic singer and songwriter, at St. Cecilia Music Center on March 2. Josh is known for his wonderful songwriting, and I know he will connect with our audience in the intimate setting of Royce Auditorium.”
Tickets for Josh Ritter are ($65/$50/$35) are available at scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. St. Cecilia Music Center is located at 24 Ransom Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.
Josh Ritter’s Bio
by Mark Deming of AllMusic.com
Born in Idaho, Ritter bought his first guitar after hearing the Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash classic "The Girl from the North Country." While attending college in Oberlin, Ohio, Ritter got his first taste of the music of Leonard Cohen and Gillian Welch; he instantly fell in love with their songs and dropped his neuroscience major in favor of the pursuit of music. As home to classic folk venues like Club Passim, Boston was the place Ritter chose to follow his dream. He recorded and released his self-titled debut in 2000, but it was 2002's The Golden Age of Radio that got him noticed by both critics and folk fans. Selling copies of the disc on his own funded Ritter's touring, while successful tours in turn funded more albums. Signature Sounds Recordings soon picked up the rights to The Golden Age of Radio and their reissue gave it exposure on a national level. Then the four- and five-star reviews started rolling in. The HBO series Six Feet Undergrabbed a track from the album for their end credits, while Ritter received an offer to open for the Frames on a tour of Ireland. Soon his single "Me & Jiggs" was in the Irish Top 40, a headlining tour of the country was sold-out, and a tribute band named Cork was playing nothing but Ritter material in numerous Irish pubs. Back home, Ritter's following was growing with sold-out shows in New York City and Boston, while an invitation to the Sundance Film Festival helped start 2003 on a high note.
In February 2003, Ritter spent 14 days in rural France at Black Box Studios (where much of the gear originally equipped Curtis Mayfield's studio in Chicago). The result, Hello Starling, was released in September of the same year. The success of The Golden Age of Radio and Hello Starling attracted the attention of the major labels, and Ritter signed with V2 in time for the release of 2006's The Animal Years. Ritter's tenure with V2 was brief, and after releasing a CD/DVD concert album, In the Dark: Live at Vicar Street, through an Irish label in April 2007, he hooked up with the BMG-distributed Victor Records, which issued the rock-oriented The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter in August 2007. The hard-touring Ritter dropped two more live discs in 2008, Live at the 9:30 Club and Live at the Record Exchange, and he opted to eliminate his problems with record labels by forming one of his own, Pytheas Recordings. Pytheas issued the album So Runs the World Away in 2010, and when Ritter published his first novel, Bright's Passage, through Dial Press in 2012, Pytheas issued a special box set of Ritter reading his own novel, accompanied by an EP of songs inspired by the book. Ritter returned to music with 2013's The Beast in Its Tracks, an album inspired by his divorce, and he traveled to New Orleans to work with producer and engineer Trina Shoemaker for his 2015 release Sermon on the Rocks. In July 2017 Ritter issued the single Showboatin anticipation of the release of his ninth studio long-player, Gathering -- one of Ritter's loosest and most rewarding outings to date -- which arrived later that September via Pytheas Recordings/Thirty Tigers. The prolific singer/songwriter returned in 2019 with his tenth full-length effort, Fever Breaks, which was produced by Jason Isbell, and backed by Isbell's band the 400 Unit.
ACOUSTIC CAFÉ FOLK SERIES TICKETS
**Ticket prices: Single tickets have a $3.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30pm.
Josh Ritter
Thursday, March 2, 2023
A section $65
B section $50
C section $35
Sam Bush
Friday, March 10, 2023
A Section $50
B section $35
C section $20
Joshua Davis
Thursday, April 27, 2023
A Section $30
B Section $20
C Section $10
Leo Kottke
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
A Section $55
B Section $40
C Section $25
JAZZ SERIES SINGLE TICKETS
**Ticket prices: Single tickets have a $3.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30pm.
Artemis
Thursday, February 16, 2023
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
Emmet Cohen Trio
Thursday, March 9, 2023
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER SERIES SINGLE TICKETS
**Ticket prices: Single tickets have a $3.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30pm.
Delight and Drama
Thursday, March 23, 2023
A section $50
B section $35
C section $20
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