Tift Merritt in Concert

Name: Tift Merritt in Concert
Start: 2025-01-23T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-23T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 3201 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28412

Schedule

Thu Jan 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3201 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28412 | Wilmington, NC

CAM Members: $55
Not-Yet Members: $70

CAM is excited to have artist Tift Merritt return for a public concert! As a friend to Thomas Sayre, Tift’s song cycle for Four Songs, Four Walls revealed her passion for collaborative storytelling. She returns for a solo performance in our Weyerhauser reception hall.
TIFT MERRITT is a Grammy-nominated musician who wanted to be a writer until her father taught her guitar chords and Percy Sledge songs. She has toured around the world with her sonic short stories and garnered a reputation for making her own way and setting an interesting artistic table. The New Yorker calls her "the bearer of a proud tradition of distaff country soul that reaches back to artists like Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry.” Don Henley, with help from Mick Jagger, kicks off Cass County with a cover of her song Bramble Rose. Taking time off the road to raise her daughter, Merritt began work on larger, site specific projects by way of collecting found objects in the abandoned asylum in her hometown as forgotten, essential language. Merritt has also collected artist interviews researching creative process and integrity on The Spark for Carolina Performing Arts and Marfa, Texas Public Radio. She is a Practitioner-In-Residence in collaboration with the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University and lives in North Carolina with her daughter Jean.