The concert with Grammy award winning singer and songwriter Marc Cohn, who was to perform this week at St. Cecilia Music Center in Grand Rapids has now been rescheduled for September 2020. Due to recent statements from the CDC and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services regarding steps needed to control the spread of the coronavirus, it was necessary to postpone or cancel March and some April events and concerts at St. Cecilia Music Center. The concert with Marc Cohn will now be rescheduled for September 2020. The new date will be announced soon.
St. Cecilia Music Director Executive Director Cathy Holbrook, says, “We will be excited to bring back Marc Cohn to Grand Rapids, now rescheduled for sometime in September 2020. The exact date will soon be announced. Since he was last here in Spring 2017, Marc has spent time on the road with legendary Michael McDonald, worked closely with David Crosby and other American music greats including soul survivor William Bell, who won his first Grammy at age 78 with Marc’s help in creating Bell’s celebrated album, “This is Where I Live”. With his latest work with the gospel legends Blind Boys of Alabama we can’t wait to hear his new concert repertoire. This is going to be an amazing concert!”
In August 2019, Cohn released a soul / gospel /pop album, “Work to Do”, along with Grammy Award winners, Blind Boys of Alabama. The album’s collection combined Cohn’s unique vocal and songwriting talents with the sanctified genius of these veteran gospel stars.
Cohn originally rose to the top of the pop world when he won the Grammy for his soulful ballad “Walking in Memphis,” and since that time Marc Cohn has solidified his place as one of this generation’s most compelling singer-songwriters, combining the precision of a brilliant tunesmith with the passion of a great soul man. Cohn continues to do what he does best: infuse American music with both a fresh perspective and a reverence for its deep roots.
Bonnie Raitt has declared, "Marc is one of the most soulful, talented artists I know. I love his songs, he's an incredible singer, and I marvel at his ability to mesmerize every audience he plays for."
All currently sold tickets for Marc Cohn will be honored for the new rescheduled date in September 2020. Marc Cohn concert tickets are $40 and $45 and can be purchased by calling St. Cecilia Music Center at 616-459-2224 or visiting the box office at 24 Ransom Ave. NE. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.scmc-online.org. A post-concert “Meet-the-artist” reception with a cash bar will be offered to all ticket-holders giving the audience the opportunity to possibly meet Marc Cohn and obtain signed CDs of his many releases.
More about Marc Cohn can be found on his website www.marccohnmusic.com or at paradigmagency.com/music/marc-cohn/
St. Cecilia Music Center Acoustic Cafe Folk Series 2020 Available Remaining Concerts
- Shawn Colvin will return for her second appearance at St. Cecilia Music Center on May 19, 2020 performing her newly released album Steady On Acoustic in its entirety. Her original 1989 album Steady On became her first Grammy Award winning album and brought her significant acclaim and a large devoted fan base.
- GRAMMY® award winning folk Americana singer and songwriter Marc Cohn will perform this fall during a newly rescheduled date in September 2020. The date for the concert will be announced soon.
Marc Cohn Bio
After winning a Grammy for his soulful ballad “Walking in Memphis,” Marc Cohn solidified his place as one of this generation’s most compelling singer-songwriters, combining the precision of a brilliant tunesmith with the passion of a great soul man. Rooted in the rich ground of American rhythm and blues, soul and gospel and possessed of a deft storyteller’s pen, he weaves vivid, detailed, often drawn-from-life tales that evoke some of our most universal human feelings: love, hope, faith, joy, heartbreak.
Cohn followed up his platinum-selling debut with two more releases in the 1990s, at which point Time magazine called him "one of the honest, emotional voices we need in this decade" and Bonnie Raitt declared, "Marc is one of the most soulful, talented artists I know. I love his songs, he's an incredible singer, and I marvel at his ability to mesmerize every audience he plays for."
Raitt, James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash and Patty Griffin all made guest appearances on Cohn’s early records for Atlantic as his reputation as an artist and performer continued to grow. In 1998, Cohn took a decade-long sabbatical from recording, ending in 2007 with Join the Parade. Inspired by the horrific events following Hurricane Katrina and his own near fatal shooting just weeks before, Parade is his most moving and critically acclaimed record to date.
About his album Listening Booth: 1970, a collection of reimagined classics from that seminal year in music, Rolling Stone said, “Cohn has one of rock’s most soulful croons – a rich, immediately recognizable tenor that makes these songs his own.” In late 2014, Cohn released “The Coldest Corner in the World,” the title song to the documentary Tree Man and his first original song released in more than seven years.
On March 25, 2016, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his platinum-selling debut album, released Careful What You Dream: Lost Songs and Rarities along with the bonus album Evolution of a Record, featuring never-before-heard songs and demos dating back to years before his debut album and the Grammy award that followed.
Marc’s momentum continued into a busy and fruitful 2017, which he spent in part on the road with the legendary Michael McDonald, garnering critical acclaim across the U.S. His writing talent was also drafted for work with a roster of American music greats including soul survivor William Bell, who won his first Grammy at age 78 with Marc’s help; Marc co-wrote a solid half of Bell’s celebrated album This is Where I Live, including the passionate opening cut “The Three Of Me.” The album revived the sound of Stax soul’s golden age, when Bell had first cut his teeth as an artist, and which had influenced Marc Cohn so powerfully - in its way, completing a circle and letting Marc give back to one of the originators of the sound that shaped him.
Marc revisited another corner of American music’s rich heritage with the Blind Boys of Alabama on the Grammy-nominated song “Let My Mother Live,” and also worked with David Crosby on the album Lighthouse. As powerfully influenced by the singer-songwriter tradition as he is by the legacy of soul and gospel, working with the ‘60s icon was a project that got right to Marc’s creative core.
Marc in August 2019 released a collaborative record with gospel legends Blind Boys of Alabama titled Work To Do. Work to Do is comprised of three studio tracks by Cohn and the Blind Boys (two originals, including the title track, and a version of the gospel standard “Walk In Jerusalem”) plus seven intimate live performances recorded at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, CT, during a taping of the PBS series The Kate. Original plans were to release an EP containing the studio tracks, but the excitement and magic captured during the taping inspired the decision to create this unique hybrid album.
Moving forward, Marc continues to do what he does best: infuse American music with both a fresh perspective and a reverence for its deep roots.
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