Kathy Mattea performs at the Foundation

Kathy Mattea brings “Songs and the Season” to the Foundation Performing Arts Center in Spindale

  Continuing a long-standing and successful holiday tour tradition, Kathy Mattea brings her spiritual and eclectic Christmas music program, “Songs and the Season” to the Foundation Performing Arts Center on Saturday, December 4th at 7:30 PM.

   The show, featuring Kathy’s band of stellar musicians in an “unplugged”, acoustic configuration, draws material from her Grammy Award-winning “Good News” album, and from the acclaimed follow-up “Joy for Christmas Day”, along with some newly recovered gems. Also included in the evening’s set is a sampling of her best-loved signature songs: “Love at the Five and Dime”, “18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses”, “455 Rocket”, and  “Where’ve You Been?” to name just a few, and songs from her latest Grammy-nominated release, “COAL”.

   Twice named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association, Kathy Mattea carved out a role for herself in the late 1980s and 1990s as a sensitive yet energetic artist, at ease both with country tradition and free-ranging innovation.  The West Virginia native won her first Grammy in 1990, earning the Best Female Country Vocal Performance award for her moving “Where’ve You Been,” co-written by husband Jon Vezner.  With close to thirty Top 40 country hits, including 15 Top 10s and 4 Number One entries, and five gold albums and a platinum-selling greatest hits compilation, she is among the most successful women in the genre’s history, yet her creative spirit has led her to explore musical territory extending well beyond its confines.

   Kathy Mattea will be performing at the Foundation Performing Arts Center on Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM. Tickets are available for purchase online at www.FoundationShows.org, the venue box office or charge by phone at 828-286-9990. Prices are $26 and $29 for adults and $12 and $14 for youth. The Foundation Performing Arts and Conference Center is located on the Spindale Campus of Isothermal Community College on Hwy 74A, near Forest City.