Carrie Newcomer Concert
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
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Need another reason to attend A Place at
the Table 2008? How about a special performance by singer, songwriter,
musician, Rounder Recording artist and peace activist Carrie Newcomer! |
Carrie is a touchstone of authenticity in
an image-driven, media-defined musical world. She is a beautiful singer and
songwriter, and deeply refreshing.
-Rosanne Cash
Carrie's message of peaceful inclusion perfectly
complements our conference theme.
Carrie has developed a loyal following from her
incessant touring over the years, and has gained critical acclaim in the music
media including Rolling Stone and USA Today. She has 9 CD releases to her
credit. The most recent, Regular and Refugees is a collection of
well-hewn stories that say something important and true about the human
condition.
She has shared the stage with a variety of
performers including Bonnie Raitt, Allison Krauss, and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Nickel Creek, the phenom string band, covered her song "I Should've Known
Better" on their 2003 Grammy Award-winning and Gold CD, This Side.
Many Carrie Newcomer songs on Regulars and
Refugees are about people. With the deft hand of a playwright or a
novelist, Newcomer works through her characters to deliver stories—always
stories and never sermons—covering issues ranging from living wage, mental
illness, loyalty and betrayal, immigration laws, a passion for the arts, deep
abiding love, abusive relationships and the mysterious and spiritual in the
lives of us all. She even manages to put words in the mouth of a sincere and
faithful mutt dog that helps its owner cope with the loss of his wife.
Since 1997, Carrie has consistently given a
percentage of her tour album sales to charitable organizations. For the
Regulars and Refugees tour, Carrie is donating a portion of her album
sales to Second Harvest, the nation’s largest food bank network.
Newcomer’s activism springs from her Quaker faith and from her belief in
the power of an individual’s calling in the world, and it manifests itself
in the thing about which she has the most passion—her music.
Admittance to Saturday night's Carrie Newcomer
concert is included in A Place at the Table 2008 registration.
For more information on her and to hear samples
of Carrie Newcomer's music, please
visit her
website.
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