An Evening with Emmylou Harris:
A Private Benefit for the Grand Center for Arts & Culture

Saturday, October 19th, 2024 @ 7:30 PM

For ticket assistance, please contact the State Street Theater Box Office at (507)-359-9990 Monday-Friday from 9 AM-12 PM. 

A 14-time Grammy winner and Billboard Century Award recipient, Emmylou Harris’ contribution as a singer and songwriter spans 40 years. She has recorded more than 25 albums and has lent her talents to countless fellow artists’ recordings. In recognition of her remarkable career, Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2018.

Harris is known as much for her eloquently straightforward songwriting as for her incomparably expressive singing. Admired through her career for her talent as an artist and song connoisseur, Harris shook up country radio in the 1970s, and established herself as the premiere songwriter of a generation selling more than 15 million records and garnering 14 Grammy Awards, three CMA Awards, and four Americana Awards.

Harris is one of the most admired and influential women in music. She has recorded with such diverse artists as Linda Ronstadt, Daniel Lanois, Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, Ryan Adams, Beck, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett and Rodney Crowell. Few artists have achieved such honesty or have revealed such maturity in their writing. Forty years into her career, Harris continues to share the hard-earned wisdom that—hopefully if not inevitably—comes with getting older, though she’s never stopped looking ahead.

A longtime social activist, Harris has lent her voice to many causes. Most passionately to animal welfare. In 2004 she established Bonaparte's Retreat with the goal of rescuing shelter dogs and adopting them into forever homes. To this day, Bonaparte's Retreat continues to save dogs most in need at Metro Nashville Animal Care and Control and at municipal shelters in surrounding counties.

Comedian John DeBoer

Saturday, November 30, 2024 at 7 PM

It has been said, there are only two ways you can go in life after making a mistake. Learn from it and move on or don’t learn from it and stay where you are. John DeBoer has chosen a third route: Write a joke about it and share it with the masses. His nerve-hitting show flows from the devious side of childhood to the never-ending pressures of our times.
His twisted observations of life, the world around him, and particularly how he has managed to screw it up, have earned John a reputation as one of the most consistently strong acts wherever he goes.

A MICHAEL BUBLE' CHRISTMAS PRESENTED BY PHIL THOMPSON

Saturday, December 14th, 2024 @ 7 PM

As one of the nation's freshest faces to emerge as a pop/instrumental crossover, Phil continues his rigorous tour schedule performing across the globe. He has twice played at The State Street Theater bringing his Billy Joel and Elton John renditions new life. Phil's recordings include four full-length albums (Opening Act, Twelve Songs of Christmas, Tunes with a Twist, and Love Themes from the Silver Screen), his new pop-country single The Magic of Christmas Eve. He will be singing your Christmas favorites in the style of Micheal Bublé for his show, A Michael Bublé Christmas.

MAGIC CARPET RIDE: THE MUSIC OF SAN FRANCISCO 1967

Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 @ 7 PM

Magic Carpet Ride is a musical journey through one of the most electrifying and impactful times America has ever seen.
Immerse your senses in an electrifying video show projection accompanying a live performance of songs by The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Procol Harum, Cream, The Zombies, Steppenwolf and Janis Joplin.
The light show itself is a highlight of this experience, being "improvisational and hands-on, conjuring up swiftly changing kaleidoscopic images that ebb and flow with the music."

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED

Friday, April 11th, 2025 @ 7 PM
Saturday, April 12th, 2025 @ 7 PM
Sunday, April 13th, 2025 @ 2 PM

An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. The victim is not one of the house’s several occupants, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution – at some risk to herself – in a dramatic final confrontation.