Ben Folds News

A Boulder group will be competing for a recording contract on a new a cappella singing competition to air in December on NBC.

Boredom can motivate. And apparently, even carve out a career. Take Charlie Todd, who arrived in New York City in 2001 fresh from acting school.

Britt Harper Uzzell lives in the shadow of Pilot Mountain, and lately he has begun hiking to the top several times a week.

Ben Folds and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. today at the Franklin County Veterans Memorial.

Ben Folds is regarded by his fans as one of the most clever, amusing performers in pop-rock. The vocalist-pianist, who will perform Sunday at the Cotillion, talked recently during a phone interview about what's missing in pop music and his approach to songwriting.

Ben Folds performed with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday, October 20, at Benaroya Hall.

Released: Sep 22, 2009 Genre: Rock, Pop Rock Label: EMI, Meteor Records Number Of Tracks: 10 Although the Flying Machines have been compared to a variety of contemporary bands, the Ben Folds reference is perhaps the most fitting on their debut record overall: 8 Featured review by: UG Team , on october 14, 2009 0 of 0 people found this review ...

Student Events announced that solo artist Ben Folds, formerly of Ben Folds Five, will play the fall 2009 Brandeis concert.

The Steinway piano at the historic Grand Opera House in Wilmington probably isn't used to being pounded, thrashed, and rocked, but Ben Folds certainly pays no mind to typical opera house protocol.

From his place before the Boston Pops in the perfect acoustics of Symphony Hall, Ben Folds sported the face of a man who thought he'd committed the perfect crime.

A guy sitting alone at a piano. That does not seem to bode well for an exciting night of music, unless that guy is Ben Folds .

Ben Folds, 'Way to Normal' The new millennium's piano man delivers ebony and irony I should want to write about Ben Folds .

Put all of them together, and you have the most sophisticated jam session I've ever been to.

How do you tell a "real" Ben Folds song from a "fake" one? That question lingered around the snarky piano-man's music well before he punked fans and pirates alike last year by "leaking" sham tracks of 2008's Way To Normal .

In the interest of full disclosure, the author of this article and Ben Folds are distantly related, although they met for the first time on Friday for a brief interview.

Country singer George Jones is 78. Actress Linda Gray is 69. Singer Maria Muldaur is 66.

Slipknot, Trampled By Turtles and Pat Benatar all pulled the plug on their performances in Billings.

Ben Folds will play three shows in Sydney this week. Photo: Supplied by Sydney Opera House.

As crude and sexist as the original version of the song was, sappy pop-rock artist Ben Folds really knows how to transform it into something truly beautiful.

The son of 70s bingo-hall-radio fixture Kenny Loggins, Crosby Loggins won top-dog on MTV's Rock the Cradle in 2008 on the strength of his inherited adult-contemporary tendencies.