Lucinda Williams Returns to The Music Hall

Three new shows are currently on sale at The Music Hall, according to a press statement.

On Sunday, June 21, Lucinda Williams, one of America’s most critically acclaimed songwriters and recording artists, makes her return to the Historic Theater. At the Loft the newest National Theater of London broadcast Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be shown on April 12 and Folk Rock singer songwriters Great Lake Swimmers on Friday, May 1.

Season Sponsors Carey & Giampa Realtors; The River House Restaurant; and The Residences at Portwalk Place

Contributing Partner The University of New Hampshire.

The National Theater of London
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Sunday, April 12 at 1 p.m., Loft

A new play by David Hare, based on the book by Katherine Boo Meera Syal (The Kumars, Goodness Gracious Me, Rafta Rafta at the National) returns to the National Theatre, directed by Rufus Norris (Broken, London Road).Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi recording the lives of its residents. From her uncompromising book, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2012, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale. India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate. But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood. (to be recorded on March 12)

National Theater of London Season Sponsor New Hampshire Public Television

The District Restaurant Singer Songwriters Series
Great Lake Swimmers Friday, May 1 at 8 p.m., Loft

A Forest Of Arms is the sixth album from Tony Dekker’s Great Lake Swimmers and the follow up to 2012’s New Wild Everywhere. With a surging rhythm section, razor sharp violin, and flourishing banjo and guitars, Dekker and band mates have pushed their sound significantly, creating some of their most dynamic songs ever recorded.

Those familiar with the decade-long output of Great Lake Swimmers will recognize the thematic threads of beauty in the natural world, environmental issues and explorations of close personal ties that hold us together. The familiar versus the strange theme is also running through this record, both in the instrumentation and in the songwriting (“Zero In The City”, “I Was A Wayward Pastel Bay”).

Series Sponsor The District Restaurant

Intimately Yours
Lucinda Williams Sunday, June 21 at 7 p.m., Historic Theater

Lucinda Williams is one of America’s most critically acclaimed songwriters and recording artists. A triple Grammy Award winner, she is considered a leading light of what some call OR what is known as the “alt-country” movement. Her songs, with their simple chord structures and gorgeous melodies, incorporate elements of rural blues, traditional country, and rock and roll. They are distinguished by evocative, plain-spoken lyrics— delivered in a dry Louisiana drawl— that investigate the human mystery. Arguably best known for her songs Passionate Kisses and Righteously, she has been called “America’s best songwriter” by Time magazine. Her album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, was named to Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

Intimately Yours Series Sponsors: The Lighting Center at Rockingham Electric; Martingale Wharf; The Rosa; Raka; 92.5 The River

Evening Sponsors The Provident Bank; RKM Research & Communications; Clear Eye Photo

The Music Hall box office is located at 28 Chestnut Street in Portsmouth New Hampshire. For Tickets over the phone call 603-436-2400 and for online tickets go to WWW.themusichall.ORG

Shows go on sale to members on Saturday, March 7 at 10am for walk ups and 12pm for online and over the phone sales. Tickets go onsale to nonmembers on Saturday, March 21.