An Evening with Patty Griffin & Kathleen Edwards
About This Event
Patty Griffin and Kathleen Edwards share the bill at 92NY in a program built around spare, song-centered folk work. Griffin is an American singer-songwriter who favors a stripped-down idiom and whose songs have been widely covered; Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose work ranges from 2002's Failer to 2012's Voyageur, and whose song "A Soft Place To Land" won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize.
About the Artists
Petty Griffith
Petty Griffith is a singer-songwriter and performer who has appeared on New York City stages at 92NY, including the program *An Evening with Petty Griffith & Kathleen Edwards*. In that setting, Griffith shares the bill with Edwards, whose catalog spans the early 2000s through *Voyageur* and includes the SOCAN-recognized song “A Soft Place To Land.
Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Margaret Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Her 2002 debut album, Failer, contained the singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates". Her next two albums – Back to Me and Asking for Flowers – both made the Billboard 200 list and reached the top 10 of Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.
Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose work sits in the folk and Americana tradition, often built from plainspoken narratives and spare arrangements. She writes for voice first, accompanying herself on guitar or piano, and her songs have traveled widely through other artists’ interpretations, from country to pop.