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Tickets sales for Prine and Bedingfield begin April 25
Article published on Monday, April 21, 2008 |
CLEARWATER - Tickets go on sale Friday, April 25, 10 a.m. for John Prine and Natasha Bedingfield concerts at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
British pop singer-songwriter, Natasha Bedingfield performs at Ruth Eckerd Hall with special guests The Veronicas and Kate Voegele on Saturday, May 24, at 8 p.m. Tickets, priced at $35 and (limited VIP seating priced at) $75.
American country folk singer-songwriter John Prine comes to Ruth Eckerd Hall on Friday, September 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets are priced at $42.50 and $39.50
Tickets to both shows will be available beginning at 10 a.m. at Ruth Eckerd Hall Ticket Office located at 1111 McMullen Booth Road in Clearwater, by calling 727-791-7400 or visiting www.rutheckerdhall.com. The Ruth Eckerd Hall Ticket Office is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and one hour prior to show time.
Bedingfield’s first album Unwritten released in 2004, which contained primarily up-tempo songs, sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the title song Unwritten.
Her second album N.B. followed in 2007, yielding the singles Soulmate and Say It Again. Two singles on her latest release Love Like This and Pocket Full Of Sunshine are climbing the U.S. charts. Bedingfield has had five Top 10 singles in the United Kingdom to date and, as of February 2008, she has sold over 7 million singles and albums worldwide. In addition she has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with children in the Stop the Traffik campaign through her mother’s charity, Global Angels.
With the release of their new album Hook Me Up, The Veronicas exploded onto the airwaves in their native Australia garnering two Top 5 singles. Hook Me Up is expected to be released this summer in the U.S. on Sire Records. London born singer-songwriter Kate Voegele will open the show.
John Prine
After being “discovered” by Kris Kristofferson, John Prine emerged in 1971, with a highly-acclaimed self-titled debut album which included his signature songs Illegal Smile and Sam Stone. Later albums included Sweet Revenge and Common Sense.
Common Sense was Prine’s first to be charted in the U.S. top 100 by Billboard, reflecting growing commercial success. Many veteran Prine fans view the release of 1978’s Bruised Orange as a creative highpoint.
In 1991 Prine released Grammy Award-winning The Missing Years, his first collaboration with producer and Heartbreakers bassist Howie Epstein.
Prine released In Spite of Ourselves in 1997 which contained one original song and covers of classic country songs, all duets with well-known female country vocalists, including Lucinda Williams. In 2003 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award for songwriting by the UK’s BBC Radio 2 and that same year was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2005 Prine was named Americana Music Awards Artist of the Year.
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Article published on Monday, April 21, 2008
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