Press Release Spring Sound Series Announced

For immediate release

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The Andy Warhol Museum announces its spring Sound Series. The series features eight varied music performances.

Sound Series: The Low Anthem
Friday, March 23, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes The Low Anthem from Providence, RI to the museum’s intimate theater, on a tour supporting their fifth studio album. Coming off a recent tour with Lucinda Williams, the band continues to hone their handmade aesthetic and warmly crafted songs, often involving non-traditional instruments. The band were the recipients of Mojo Magazine’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award in 2010 and have toured extensively throughout the US, UK, and Europe.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $15/$12 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Fatoumata Diawara
Friday, April 13, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with Carnegie Nexus as part of its 2018 event series, Becoming Migrant… what moves you? and PANDEMIC

The Warhol welcomes singer/songwriter, Fatoumata Diawara (aka Fatou), who is originally from Mali and currently residing in France. Her much anticipated spring 2018 record will follow-up on her critically acclaimed debut album Fatou (2011) on World Circuit/Nonesuch Records, which was the No.1 album on the world music charts for six months in 2011. Fatou has collaborated with a wide array of musicians including Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabaté, Herbie Hancock and John Paul Jones, and she was featured in the recent documentary film, Mali Blues.

Tickets $20/$15 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Court-circuit
Saturday, April 14, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented by the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music

The highly-regarded French ensemble presents a program featuring David Felder’s Partial (dist)res(s)toration, Philippe Leroux’s Continuo(ns), Christophe Bertrand’a Sanh, and Sean Shepherd’s The birds are nervous, the birds have scattered.

Music on the Edge is generously supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Pitt Arts, the Bessie Pearl Snyder Music Legacy Fund, the Alice M. Ditson Foundation, the Amphion Foundation, Inc., The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, and the Opportunity Fund.

Tickets $15/$10 students and seniors in advance, $20/$15 students and seniors at the door; visit warhol.org

Sound Series: Julien Baker
Friday, April 20, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

The Warhol welcomes Memphis-based singer/songwriter, Julien Baker to the Carnegie Lecture Hall. Her second album, Turn Out the Lights, was released in the fall of 2017 on Matador Records, and has received many accolades, particularly for how directly and boldly it illuminates complex and conflicted issues around drug addiction and growing up gay in a southern Christian family and conservative culture. According to a recent New Yorker review, listening to her music makes you feel like “an interloper, eavesdropping on someone else’s prayers”.

Tickets $20/$15 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Imarhan
Sunday, May 6, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Co-presented with PANDEMIC

The Warhol welcomes Imarhan from Tamanrasset, Southern Algeria. Imarhan, meaning ‘the ones I care about,’ deftly blend repeating guitar melodies with pan-African rhythms, which draw on the traditional Tuareg music of Southern Sahara, African ballads and modern pop and rock influences. The band’s debut album, Imarhan, is intent on dismantling the ideas western listeners have about popularized Tuareg music. The band’s lead vocalist and guitarist Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane (aka Sadam) also performs with the pioneering Tuareg band Tinariwen (who performed at The Warhol in 2014).

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free parking available in The Warhol lot.

Tickets $20/$15 members and students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Margaret Glaspy
Friday, May 11, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with WYEP

The Warhol welcomes singer-songwriter and guitarist, Margaret Glaspy, visiting the museum’s intimate theater on a solo tour. Glaspy’s debut record Emotions and Math was released last summer on ATO Records, blending a range of clean pop and jagged rock sensibilities and receiving much critical acclaim, including New York Times’ list of best albums, Billboard’s 100 best pop songs of the year, and NPR’s top 100 songs of the year. She has also recently toured with The Lumineers and Wilco.

Tickets $20/$18 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Fleet Foxes with special guest Amen Dunes
Thursday, May 17, 2018
8 p.m.
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (Downtown)

Co-presented with Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Opus One

We welcome Fleet Foxes on a tour supporting their latest record, Crack-Up (Nonesuch Records). It’s the Seattle-based band’s third album, released last summer, after a six-year break since their GRAMMY-nominated record Helplessness Blues (2011). Their self-titled debut in 2008 influenced the indie folk/rock landscape, and garnered much praise and “Best of” list mentions from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. All songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin Pecknold (guitarist/vocalist) and were co-produced by Pecknold and bandmate and collaborator, Skyler Skjelset. Amen Dunes opens the show.

Tickets $34.50 – $79.50; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with WYEP

The Warhol is thrilled to welcome back The Magnetic Fields to Pittsburgh, on their three-city limited 50 Song Memoir tour, which chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt’s life with one song per year. The show is performed over two nights (songs 1–25 on night one, songs 26–50 on night two). The band is led by Stephin Merritt, who is widely considered one of the most talented songwriters of this generation. Beyond writing and recording numerous albums, Merritt has also written songs for the books of Lemony Snicket, composed music for stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, and was the subject of the feature documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields.

Tickets $40/$35 members one night, $70/$60 members both nights; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

The Warhol receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.

The Andy Warhol Museum

Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol’s birth, The Andy Warhol Museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials and is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Warhol is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Established in 1895 by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a collection of four distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. The museums reach more than 1.4 million people a year through exhibitions, educational programs, outreach activities, and special events.

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