Two new concerts have been added to The JPT Film & Event Center’s 2024 calendar.
Irish Dement
Spectacle Live will present Iris DeMent on Sunday, September 8 at 7:30pm at The JPT Film & Event Center in Newport, RI. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 14 at 10am at JanePickens.com or by calling 1-800-657-8774.
On her transcendent new record, Workin’ On A World, Iris DeMent faces the modern world — as it is right now — with its climate catastrophe, pandemic illness, and epidemic of violence and social injustice — and not only asks us how we can keep working towards a better world, but implores us to love each other, despite our very different ways of seeing. Her songs are her way of healing our broken inner and outer spaces.
With an inimitable voice as John Prine described, “like you’ve heard, but not really,” and unforgettable melodies rooted in hymns, gospel, and old country music, she’s simply one of the finest singer-songwriters in America as well as one of our fiercest advocates for human rights. Her debut record Infamous Angel, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, was recently named one of the “greatest country albums of all time” byRolling Stone, and the two albums that followed, My Life and The Way I Should, were both nominated for GRAMMYs. From there, DeMent released three records on her own label, Flariella Records, the most recent of which, The Trackless Woods (2015), was hailed as “a quietly powerful triumph” by The Guardian. DeMent’s songs have also been featured in film (True Grit) and television (The Leftovers) and recorded by numerous artists. Fittingly, she received the Americana Music Trailblazer Award in 2017.
Tickets for Iris DeMent at The JPT Film & Event Center on Sunday, September 8 at 7:30pm are $49 – $69 and go on sale Friday, June 14 at 10am at JanePickens.com or by calling 1-800-657-8774.
Five For Fighting with String Quartet
Spectacle Live will present Five For Fighting with String Quartet on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30 pm at The JPT Film & Event Center. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 14 at 10am at JanePickens.com or by calling 1-800-657-8774.
The only way for a story to progress is to turn the page. John Ondrasik — the songwriter and performer known as the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated, Five For Fighting — knows this well. In the two decades since his first major single, “Superman (It’s Not Easy),” hit the stratosphere, the artist has both evolved and come back ’round full circle. Creativity, if nothing else, is paradoxical.
To date, Five For Fighting, has released six studio LPs, including the platinum certified America Town and The Battle for Everything; and the top-10 charting Two Lights, along with an EP and live albums.
Ondrasik has penned major hits, including the chart-topping “100 Years,” “The Riddle,” “Chances,” “World,” and “Easy Tonight,” which have earned tens of millions of streams and place him as a top-10 Hot Adult Contemporary artist for the 2000s. The reflective “100 Years” has joined “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” as part of the American Songbook and continues to stand the test of time at weddings, birthdays, graduations, memorials, and many a home video. Five For Fighting’s music has also been featured in more than 350 films, television shows, and commercials, including the Oscar-winning The Blind Side, Hawaii Five-O, The Sopranos and the CBS drama, Code Black.
Tickets for Five For Fighting with String Quartet at the Jane Pickens Theater on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30pm are $69 – $89 and go on sale Friday, June 14 at 10am at JanePickens.com or by calling 1-800-657-8774.
