Monday August 26, 2024

Sat 10/26 - FocusMusic and WFMA present Carrie Newcomer w/pianist Gary Walters at Saint Aidan's Episcopal Church. 8531 Riverside Rd., Alexandria, Virginia, 22308 | 7pm | Admission: $40 in advance (members $36) / $45 at door (members $40) Virtual Tickets: $40 (members $36) available through WFMA.net Carrie Newcomer is a songwriter, recording artist, performer, educator and activist. She has been described as a "prairie mystic" by the Boston Globe and one who "asks all the right questions" by Rolling Stone Magazine. Carrie has 20 nationally released albums on Available Light & Concord/Rounder Records including A Great Wild Mercy, Until Now, The Point of Arrival and The Beautiful Not Yet. Newcomer has released three books of poetry & essays, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays, The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems and Essays & Lyrics, and Until Now: New Poems by Carrie Newcomer. Her song "I Should've Known Better" appeared on Nickel Creeks' Grammy-winning gold album This Side, and she earned an Emmy for her PBS special An Evening with Carrie Newcomer.