WXPN Welcomes Loudon Wainwright III + Wesley Stace

Having just celebrated his 80th birthday with a star studden concert at Town Hall in Manhattan, Loudon will bring his classic song catalog to Arden for the first time on January 8! Born in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1946, Loudon Wainwright III came to fame when “Dead Skunk” became a Top 20 hit in 1972. He had studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon University but dropped out to partake in the Summer of Love in San Francisco and wrote his first song in 1968 (“Edgar,” about a lobsterman in Rhode Island). His songs have since been recorded by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, his son Rufus Wainwright, and Mose Allison among others.Wesley Stace was born in Hastings, East Sussex in 1965. He released many albums under the name John Wesley Harding before switching back to his birth name for more recent recordings, including 2021’s Late Style and the Secret Series, for which he revisited his entire discography for new solo acoustic releases. Stace has recorded duets with Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed and Rosanne Cash, among other contemporaries.He also created and is the impresario of Cabinet of Wonders, a cabaret-style multi-artist show which The New Yorker called “one of the finest nights of entertainment this city has to offer.” Stace writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Philadelphia.