If you go
› What: Amanda Shires in concert.› When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14.› Where: The Arts Center, 320 N. White St., Athens, Tenn.› Admission: $15 adults, $10 students.› Phone: 423-745-8781.› Website: www.athensartscouncil.org.› Note: Three-show series packages are still available at a savings of more than 15 percent off individual ticket prices. Cost is $150 for a family package (immediate family only), $75 for a couple package and $37.50 for an individual package. Still to come are the Good Lovelies on Nov. 11 and Joshua Carswell on Jan. 20.
Did you know?
Amanda Shires earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the Sewanee School of Letters at the University of the South.Source: www.npr.org
Amanda Shires, a critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and fiddler, will continue the 2016-17 Black Box Concert Series at The Arts Center in Athens, Tenn., on Friday, Oct. 14. Shires is on a national tour supporting her new album, "My Piece of Land."
Shires began her career as a teenager playing fiddle with Bob Wills' Texas Playboys. Since then, she's toured and recorded with John Prine, Billy Joe Shaver, Todd Snider, Justin Townes Earle, Shovels & Rope and, most recently, her husband, Jason Isbell.
Her most recent forays through the area include opening for Prine at the Tivoli Theatre in Chattanooga in june. Two weeks earlier, she was at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., where she played sets separately and together with Isbell and added fiddle to a Bluegrass Situation Superjam with Sara Watkins, Ed Helms and Lee Ann Womack.
"My Piece of Land" is Shires' fourth solo album, and each project has documented a particular period in her life. The latest, she says, was inspired by a series of milestones and realizations in her personal life.