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Josh Ritter

December 15 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

$31 โ€“ $75
Show Description
This is a special, intimate show with a stripped down trio version of Josh Ritter and his band, featuring Sam Kassirer on piano and Rich Hinman on pedal steel plus more. Here is a note from Josh about the event:
“All that I truly know about songs is this: the entire Universe can be contained within a single one. Iโ€™ve known that forever, maybe I came into the world with that knowledge. Likewise, there is nothing so infinitesimal that its magic cannot be glorified or elucidated in a song. I wrote the song โ€œOrbitalโ€ in order to show that. Truth is shared by all things. The arch of an eyebrow recognizes the shadow cast by an eclipse.
For that matter, a loud-ass rock song can recognize and relate to even the quietest liโ€™l lullaby.
Theseย ‘Great to Small, Small to Grand’ shows will be about huge ideas and stories, packed into tiny grains of great (musical) insistence. Please join us!”
Ritter is a renowned singer, songwriter, musician, artist and best-selling author. One of todayโ€™s most thoughtful and prolific voices, he has released eleven studio albums including 2019โ€™s widely acclaimed,ย Fever Breaks, of which NPR Music praised, โ€œHe remains a hydrant of ideas while embodying an endless capacity for empathy and indignation, often within a single song.โ€
In addition to his work as a musician, Ritter is also a national best-selling author, having released two novels to date: 2021โ€™sย The Great Glorious Goddamn of It Allย and 2011โ€™sย Brightโ€™s Passage. Released to critical attention, Stephen King wrote in The New York Times Book Review thatย Brightโ€™s Passageย โ€œshines with a compressed lyricism that recalls Ray Bradbury in his primeโ€ฆThis is the work of a gifted novelist.โ€
โ€œJosh Ritter remains at the top of his game two decades into a highlight-strewn career. Heโ€™d be forgiven for loosening his grip, but his hand has never felt surer.โ€
–ย NPR Music
โ€œHarking back to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and maybe a little Mark Knopfler, Mr. Ritter has always been a slinger of serious ideas and high-flown imagery.โ€
–ย The New York Times
โ€œMysterious, melancholy, melodicโ€ฆand those are only the Mโ€™s.โ€
– Stephen King inย Entertainment Weekly

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Date:
December 15
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cost:
$31 โ€“ $75
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Website:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/36399/performance/11520170

Venue

Englert Theatre
221 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240
IOWA CITY, IA 52240 United States
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Phone
(319) 688-2653
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