Pop Rock singer/songwriter/pianist Ben Folds recently released his memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs, and is gearing up for some fall touring that will include a stop at Cincinnati's Taft Theatre. Folds will play a solo piano show at the Taft on Oct. 24.
Tickets ($18.75-$75) go on sale this Friday (Aug. 16) at 10 a.m via ticketmaster.com.
Since his early years fronting the popular North Carolina trio Ben Folds Five, Folds has etched out a wide-ranging career in music. Along with his solo albums (which produced the hit "Rockin' the Suburbs"), he has collaborated with a vast array of artists, including Regina Spektor, Sara Bareilles, Amanda Palmer, Nick Hornby and William Shatner (Folds re-kickstarted Captain Kirk's "ironic covers" career).
In more recent years, he was a judge on the NBC show The Sing-Off for five seasons and he has performed with symphony orchestras all over the world. His most recent album is 2015's So There, a collaboration with progressive Chamber Pop ensemble yMusic that also includes his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, performed with the Nashville Symphony. Folds is also a dedicated supporter of arts education, appearing in 2016 at both political parties' national conventions to advocate for arts funding, among other work.
