By WKTV Staff
ken@wktv.org
Lee Ann Womack will bring her six Country Music Association Awards, five Academy of Country Music Awards and a Grammy with her when she kicks off St. Cecilia Music Center’s Acoustic Café Folk Series concerts with a show Thursday, Oct. 3.
Okay, she won’t actually bring the Grammy to the stage, but she will bring her guitar and music from her latest album ‘The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone’.
The show begins a folk music series which includes the legendary Judy Collins later in the month, on Oct. 20, and then a packed February 2020 lineup with Grammy-award winning bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters on Feb. 6; multiple Grammy-award winner Rosanne Cash with guest-musician/composer/husband John Leventhal — maybe the folk series show of the year — on Feb. 19; multi-Grammy-award winner Chris Thile (a member of Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek) on Feb. 25; and guitarist and singer Raul Midón on Feb. 27.
Tickets for Womack and all folk music series shows are still available.
“We are so excited to kick off our new season with Lee Ann Womack, one of the best-known female country singers,” Cathy Holbrook, St. Cecilia Music Center executive director, said in supplied material. “From her popular earlier hits like, ‘I Hope You Dance’ to the powerful new rootsy selections from her latest album ‘The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone,’ those who come to this concert will see how Lee Ann masterfully captures her audience with her beautiful voice, presence and skillful execution.”
Lee Ann Womack has performed award-winning duets with everyone from Willie Nelson, John Prine to John Legend.
Her latest album ‘The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone’ has transformed her sound back to her “roots,” the East Texas native said in supplied material. “I could never shake my center of who I was. I’m drawn to rootsy music. It’s what moves me.”
For more about the artist as well as videos, visit her website here.
Tickets to Lee Ann Womack and all St. Cecilia shows are available by calling 616-459-2224 or visiting St. Cecilia Music Center at 24 Ransom NE, Grand Rapids, 49503 or online here. The Oct. 3 concert with Womack begins at 7:30 p.m. and includes a post-concert party with wine and beer for all concert ticket holders.
