PORT TOWNSEND — The Northwind Arts Center will join Matt Miner Presents in welcoming Lubbock, Texas, native Beth Wood for an evening of song at 7 tonight.
Tickets are $12 and are available at http://bwood northwind.brownpaper tickets.com for the performance at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.
Wood is a modern-day troubadour and believer in the power of song. She grew up in Lubbock with her mom’s classical tapes playing in the car, her dad’s Willie Nelson records spinning in the living room, her brother’s Foreigner and Heart 8-track tapes blasting in his room, and her own little radio which she would hide under the covers and search late into the night for songs with women’s voices, according to a press release.
Wood’s skills in the craft of songwriting have been recognized by the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Award, The Sisters Folk Festival Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Award and the Billboard World Song Contest.
She has opened for Steve Winwood, Michael McDonald and Shawn Colvin; been a four-time featured artist on Cayamo, taken a week-long Caribbean songwriters’ cruise along with most of her living musical heroes and sang the national anthem for 42,000 people at a major league baseball game.
But what matters to Wood more than awards or sales or big spotlight moments is connecting with people through music night after night, she said in a press release.
Northwind Arts Center welcomes Matt Miner Presents as a new partner in presenting live acoustic music in Port Townsend.
MMP has been producing intimate concerts in the Portland, Ore., area for 13 years, specializing in presenting touring artists from across the country and around the world.
For more information, contact Northwind Arts Center at 360-379-1086 or email songwriters@northwindarts.org.
