Americana, roots, and folk music fans can get tickets for Landmark Center’s fall concert series!
Cocktail reception: 7 pm // Doors: 7:30 pm // Concert: 8 pm.
All Landmark Live concerts are presented by Landmark Center and Minnesota Music Coalition with sponsorship support from KFAI Radio and the Pioneer Press. Again this year, Minnesota Music Coalition artists will be opening acts, and each performance is hosted by personalities from KFAI Radio and/or Minnesota Music Coalition.
Carrie Elkin is one of those rare artists with a tidal wave singing voice, and a stage whisper writing voice that brings you to the edge of your seat, emotionally. Like Patty Griffin or Brandi Carlile, she straddles the Americana, Folk, and Indie Rock worlds, where meaningful songs meet the fierce-yet- fragile voices of powerful women. Like these other seminal artists, Elkin has the gift of projecting very personal intimate moments into transcendent universal experiences that move us all.
The voice, the stories, the images, the grace and infectious enthusiasm, it’s a complete package. But it’s the power of her live performances that really have been creating an incredible buzz around this young artist.
“The Penny Collector” is Elkin’s seventh record and is the long awaited solo release since her acclaimed “Call It My Garden” album was released in 2011 on venerable roots label, Red House Records. Written in a year that was bookended by the birth of Elkin’s first child and the process of caretaking her father through the dying process, “The Penny Collector” is a poet’s momentous stroll full circle around the human lifecycle in one single year. It’s a journey that is beautifully told, fragile and heartbreaking at times, joyous and raucous in others. And Elkin once again delivers the powerhouse vocal performance that people have come to expect, with delicate waves of intimacy that build to astonishing crests and crashes of intensity.
Cocktail hour begins at 7pm, the auditorium will open at 7:30pm and the concert will begin at 8:00pm.