Ben Folds is celebrating Independence Day with the shock launch of a brand new album, Ben Folds Dwell with the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra. Stream it under.
The discharge was formally introduced this morning (July 4th) with a particular in-store launch occasion and livestreamed Q&A session at Washington, DC’s Byrdland Data.
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Ben Folds Dwell with the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra options the artist performing fan favorites and new music, joined by the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra carried out by Principal Pops Conductor of the NSO, Steven Reineke. Particular visitor artists on the album embrace Regina Spektor and Tall Heights.
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“This album immediately now feels a lot greater,” Folds defined in a press assertion. “I knew we have been making one thing particular with the NSO. I didn’t understand it’d be a time capsule of the final second earlier than all of it bought torn down… I nonetheless imagine there’s extra good than not. However you could work for it. It’s important to say one thing. Particularly now.”
Folds recorded the album on the sold-out Live performance Corridor of the John F. Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on October twenty fifth and twenty sixth, 2024. These reveals occurred simply months earlier than he resigned from his place because the first-ever Creative Advisor to the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra (NSO), in response to President Trump taking management of the Kennedy Heart. Folds formally put in his resignation at 1:59 pm ET on February twelfth, 2025 — precisely one minute earlier than President Trump’s administrative regime change of the Kennedy Heart formally took maintain.
“I had my assertion up by 2:01,” Folds mentioned in an unique interview with our personal Kyle Meredith. “The takeover was at 2:00. I needed no a part of what was coming.”
Folds is about to assist the brand new album with an in depth US tour that may discover him performing solo reveals in addition to symphony concert events with a number of the prime orchestras within the nation. See the total itinerary under, and get tickets right here.
Ben Folds Dwell with the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra Paintings:
* = Solo present