**Take advantage of advance ticket prices, as they go up the day of the show!** ADV: $18/$15 MEM; D/S: $21/$18 MEM
Pierce Pettis, adored by both critics and public alike, is one of this generation’s most masterful songwriters. His music is distinguished by his uncanny ability to capture universals in human experience by drawing on the humor and trials in daily life. It can simultaneously pull on our hearts and keep us laughing. The beautiful harmonies, inventive yet subtle percussion, strong guitar, and Pierce’s rich vocals are a constant throughout his body of work.
Pierce has performed in all 48 continental states as well as in Canada and Europe and has made appearances in numerous popular television and radio broadcasts, including American Public Radio’s Mountain Stage (nine times so far), NPR’s E-town, Morning Edition and World Café, and VH-1, CBS News, and the Nashville Network. Pierce has also been a writer at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama throughout his career. He has received numerous accolades, including the prestigious New Folk competition for songwriting at the Kerrville Folk Festival and a 1999 Country Music Award from ASCAP for “You Move Me,” which he co-wrote with Gordon Kennedy, and which was recorded by Garth Brooks on his album, Sevens.
With the release of Great Big World (his eighth album), Pierce Pettis rejoined State of Grace producer Garry West in what has been called “a masterpiece” and “his best yet.”
Nashville-based artist and Wrensong Publishing writer, Sally Barris, who has found success in the mainstream world of country music and about whom Kathy Mattea says, "has a voice like sparkling crystal," will open for Pierce.
