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March 2, 2017
CONTACT: Dan Berube, dberube@spectaclemanagement.net
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Lexington, MA – WUMB Radio is proud to present Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Lori McKenna at Cary Memorial Hall in Lexington on Sunday, April 9 at 7pm. Lori McKenna was just awarded Best Country Song for her solo-penned, No. 1 hit “Humble and Kind” (Tim McGraw) at 59th Annual Grammy Awards. In addition to the Grammy accolades, McKenna recently won “Song of the Year” at The 50th Annual CMA Awards for “Humble and Kind.” She is the first songwriter to win the award in consecutive years since Vince Gill (1991-1993) and is the first female songwriter to win back-to-back nods in the history of the CMAs. McKenna is also the first solo songwriter to win the award since 2011. Tickets for Lori McKenna at Cary Memorial Hall in Lexington on Sunday, April 9 at 7pm are $49-$39 and are on sale now at www.caryhalllexington.com or by calling 617-531-1257.
LORI MCKENNA
Nearly a decade since receiving her first album cut through superstar Faith Hill, McKenna is one of the most sought after songwriters in the industry with her songs recorded by top artists including Reba, Alison Krauss, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Keith Urban. McKenna’s songwriting credits include the 2x Platinum Billboard No. 1 hit, “I Want Crazy,” by Hunter Hayes and radio favorites like Little Big Town’s “Your Side of the Bed” and “Sober.” She penned the 2015 massive Little Big Town hit, “Girl Crush,” which reached 11 weeks on the Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and netted McKenna a CMA Award, NSAI Songwriters and her first Grammy. Billboard recently spotlighted McKenna for bringing the solo songwriter back to No. 1 with her Tim McGraw hit, “Humble and Kind.” The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart marking the first time in more than four years a song written by one writer topped the chart.
McKenna also continues to receive widespread critical acclaim for her Grammy-nominated new album, The Bird & The Rifle, which is out now on CN Records via Thirty Tigers. Produced by Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton), the album was recorded live over ten days in Nashville and has received overwhelming critical praise.
NPR Music calls it “one of 2016’s best releases,” while Pitchfork asserts, “one of the most accomplished and devastating singer-songwriter albums of the year,” and The Washington Post declares, “the best-sounding album of McKenna’s 15-year recording career.”
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for Lori McKenna at Cary Memorial Hall in Lexington on Sunday, April 9 at 7pm are $49-$39 and are on sale now at www.caryhalllexington.com or by calling 617-531-1257.
WUMB
WUMB-FM is a non-commercial, public radio station licensed to the University of Massachusetts, with studios at the UMass Boston Campus as the central hub for a network of eight stations in: Boston, Worcester and Falmouth at 91.9FM, Newburyport, Stow and Marshfield at 91.7FM, Orleans at 1170AM, and Milford, New Hampshire at 88.7FM. All eight facilities simulcast the identical program schedule, which is produced from the central station. Our 24 hour a day broadcast schedule reaches over 80,000 individual listeners in over 275 cities and towns in eastern and central Massachusetts and Cape Cod, along with parts of Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut. A livestream of our programming can also be accessed online via our website. We currently reach another 80,000 listeners from all 50 states and 147 different countries via our livestream. www.wumb.org
CARY MEMORIAL HALL
The Cary Memorial Building is a historic structure located in Lexington Center at 1605 Massachusetts Avenue. The Cary Memorial Building, named for Isaac Harris Cary, was built in 1928 with a donation from his two daughters. The Colonial styled building, with its grand auditorium, has provided the community with a year-round site for musical programming and popular events for eighty years and is home to the Lexington Symphony. The building is handicapped accessible, and is fully air-conditioned. www.caryhalllexington.com
SPECTACLE MANAGEMENT
Spectacle Management is a full-service booking, marketing and promotion company with offices in Boston and Lexington. For more information, please contact Pete Lally, plally@specmgt.com and 617-531-1257. www.spectacleshows.com
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