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PineCone & North Carolina Museum of Art present

An Evening with PATTY GRIFFIN
and Special Guest Buddy Miller

Prices: $30 ($25 NCMA and PineCone Members) Reserved;
$20 ($15 NCMA and PineCone Members) General Admission;
$10 Children 7-12, General Admission only;
Children 6 and under free, General Admission only

Two giants of Americana music, Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller, team up to showcase a new album inspired by their love of gospel music. It's a collection of gorgeous, soul-stirring songs called Downtown Church, which has been nominated by the Americana Music Association for Album of the Year. Griffin and Miller are revered for their songwriting gifts, and Miller is one of Nashville's most sought after instrumentalists and producers. He was the engine behind Emmylou Harris's band for several years and recently toured with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. Their songs have been covered by many, but nothing compares to the experience of hearing these brilliant artists perform in the intimate setting of the Museum Park Theater.

Downtown Church was recorded in a Presbyterian church in downtown Nashville. It’s not just any Presbyterian church, though. The Downtown Presbyterian Church on 5th Ave. N. in Nashville was built in 1849 (the third home for a congregation whose members included President Andrew Jackson). It is a spectacular building, designed in the Egyptian Revival style by the architect William Strickland, and during the Civil War, was used as a hospital for Union soldiers. The sanctuary has history, everywhere one turns.

“It’s the wildest looking thing, and it sounded beautiful,” Miller says. “So I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask. The pastor said, ‘We’re Presbyterians, we’re very efficient, we only need it once a week.’” Miller, too, is efficient; Downtown Church was cut live over the first week of January, 2009, with Patty Griffin singing from the pulpit.

“I wanted to do it in a church,” Griffin says, the wonder still in her voice nearly a year later. “I didn’t expect Buddy to find such a church. I was thinking, nice little church out in the country, one of those buildings they rent out for music videos. And Buddy got this place. Wow! What a church.”

PineCone is pleased to cohost this concert with the North Carolina Museum of Art. Please join us for a night of beautiful music under the stars!

Patty Griffin's website

Buddy Miller's website