CMA Award-winning Nashville artist Gretchen Peters to perform at Society Hall
GRETCHEN Peters, one of country music’s “upper-echelon” contemporary composers, will perform Friday night at Society Hall in Alamosa. Gretchen will be accompanied by keyboardist Barry Walsh.
For more than two decades, Peters has been one of Nashville’s most beloved and respected artists.
“If Peters never delivers another tune as achingly beautiful as ‘On A Bus To St. Cloud,’” People Magazine wrote, “she has already earned herself a spot among country’s upper echelon of contemporary composers.”
She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who called her “both a songwriter and a poet (who) sings as beautifully as she writes,” and said her song The Matador “moved me so greatly, I cried from the soles of my feet.”
IF YOU GO
Nashville singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters on Friday, March 17 at 7:30 pm. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door and are available at the Green Spot at 711 State Ave in Alamosa, or online at www.societyhall.org. The concert will also stream live on the Society Hall Facebook page.
Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. Her song “Independence Day,” recorded by Martina McBride, won a CMA Song of the Year award in 1995.
She has been nominated for two Grammys (Independence Day/Martina McBride”, and (You Don’t Even Know Who I Am/Patty Loveless); a Golden Globe (“Here I Am”/Bryan Adams); and other awards. Her 2015 album “Blackbirds” was awarded International Album of the Year and Song of the Year by the UK Americana Association. In 2015, The Telegraph named her one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time. In 2021 she was awarded The Poets Award by the Academy of Country Music.
Last year Peters released a live album, recorded while on tour in the UK in 2019 with her band and an all-female Scottish string quartet. “The Show: Live from the UK” was released 19 August 2022.
“Sometimes it’s hard to believe the artists that come to our little town to play at Society Hall,” said board member and area musician and producer Don Richmond. “I mean, look at the accolades that have been showered upon Gretchen Peters, and all of the amazing artists who have recorded her songs – don’t miss the opportunity to see this artist.”
