New Ben Folds Dates? Y Not!

The outing is made up of residencies at venues ranging from intimate clubs to concert halls in cities including Chicago, Boston, New York, Charlottesville and Baltimore. The tour goes along with a new album of pop tunes that Folds recorded and arranged in collaboration with yMusic. Plus, look out for the debut recording of Folds’ “Concerto For Piano and Orchestra.”

A digital version of the new LP is due out in the spring, followed by a vinyl release in late summer. The album was recorded in less than two weeks in New York, Los Angeles and Folds’ historic RCA Studio A in Nashville.

Fans can expect a good dose of “forward-thinking studio craft and creative spontaneity.” We’ll let Folds tell you all about it in his own words.  

“I don’t recall ever being quite so excited about an album I’m making,” Folds said. “I’ll let you decide if that’s a good thing or not. It’s just that we don’t often get to make a record that we’ve never heard before. The arrangements you will hear on this record are straight up rock –

 not ornamentation. The odd instrumentation – piano, cello, viola, violin, flute/piccolo/alto flute, trumpet/French horn, and clarinet/bass clarinet, with no bass and more often than not, no drums – is yielding something that I can’t wait to release. It’s a pop record, if that’s what you call what I write.”

With more cities and shows to be added, here’s the initial routing for Ben Folds with yMusic.

April 23 – Portland, Maine, State Theatre     
April 24 – Boston, Mass., Royale Nightclub Boston
April 25 – Cambridge, Mass., The Sinclair    
April 27 – New York, N.Y., The Bowery Ballroom
April 28 – Brooklyn, N.Y., Music Hall Of Williamsburg      
May 1 – Charlottesville, Va., Jefferson Theater
May 2 – Richmond, Va., The National          
May 6 – Baltimore, Md., Rams Head Live!

Tickets go on sale Feb. 27. Folds is planning additional touring in mid-June, along with additional U.S. cities and international live dates. Visit BenFolds.com for more info.