Bonnie Raitt

Doors Open: 8:00pm
Show Time: 9:00pm
Taft Theatre

Artists

  • Bonnie Raitt

  • Marc Cohn

Event Information

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(including cell phones) will be strictly prohibited *

More than just a best-selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer, and accomplished songwriter, Bonnie Raitt has become an institution in American music.  Bonnie Raitt started anew with the release of her nineteenth album, Slipstream.  The album marked her return to studio recording after seven years and the launch of her label, Redwing Records.  A huge success, Slipstream sold over a quarter-million copies in 2012, making it one of the top selling independent albums, and earned Raitt her 10th GRAMMY Award (Best Americana Album).  From the New York Times to People Magazine, 'Slipstream' was also lauded in numerous top critics' lists for album of the year.  Raitt sold out over half of her 80-date North American concert tour, and made several national TV appearances (Ellen, Leno, Letterman, GMA, Fallon and more), performed at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance from the Americana Music Association.  Slipstream delivers some of the most surprising and rewarding music of Raitt's remarkable career, thanks in part to some experimental sessions with celebrated producer Joe Henry.

 

Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn has been obsessed with pop music for as long as he can remember: “I was hooked from day one. My older brother had a band that rehearsed in our basement, so I heard Bacharach, The Beatles, Ray Charles, and Motown coming up through the floorboards from the time I was six years old. By the time I was eleven though, the Beatles were breaking up and singer-songwriters were breaking through, and a lot of that music really resonated for me.”  As a songwriter and singer, Cohn combines the precision of a brilliant tunesmith with the passion of a great soul man. He's a natural storyteller, balancing the exuberant with the poignant, and able to distill universal truth out of his often romantic, drawn-from-life tales.

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This is a past event

This event occurred on Saturday, November 9, 2013.