Ben Folds

Ben FoldsBen Folds is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter who has created an enormous body ofgenre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, aholiday album, and numerous collaborative records.He currently tours as a pop artist, while also performing for over two decades with some of theworld’s greatest symphony orchestras.Folds, who served for eight years as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National SymphonyOrchestra (NSO) at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, stepped down from his post whenDonald Trump announced his takeover of the Center. On October 25 and 26, 2024, just daysbefore the US presidential election, Folds recorded two sold out performances with the NSOwhich he released as a live album in July which debuted at the top of the Billboard classical andclassical crossover charts.A New York Times Best Selling author, Ben also creates new music for film, tv and theatre, withoriginal new music he composed to be featured in an animated Peanuts special airing thissummer on Apple TV.In 2022, he launched a music education charitable initiative in his native state of North Carolinaentitled “Keys For Kids,” which provides funds and keyboards to existing nonprofits that offerfree or affordable piano lessons to school-age children from economically-disadvantagedhouseholds. For the past 15 years he has been an outspoken advocate for arts funding, musiceducation and music therapy in the US as a member of Americans For The Arts and the ArtsAction Fund.