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Iris Dement Concerts

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19.10.2024 07:30

St. Louis

USA

City Winery At City Foundry STL

19.10.2024 07:30

$90.00-$300.00

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20.10.2024 07:30

Springfield

USA

Gillioz Theatre

20.10.2024 07:30

$78.00-$445.00

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03.12.2024 07:30

Tucson

USA

Rialto Theatre - Tucson

03.12.2024 07:30

$53.35-$229.50

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05.12.2024 07:30

Albuquerque

USA

Kimo Theatre

05.12.2024 07:30

$66.00-$88.00

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11.12.2024 07:30

Solana Beach

USA

Belly Up Tavern

11.12.2024 07:30

$60.16-$141.00

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14.12.2024 08:00

Napa

USA

Uptown Theatre Napa

14.12.2024 08:00

$63.47-$437.10

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29.01.2025 08:00

Atlanta

USA

City Winery - Atlanta

29.01.2025 08:00

$75.00-$300.00

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30.01.2025 07:30

Asheville

USA

Diana Wortham Theatre

30.01.2025 07:30

$78.00-$425.75

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Artist Info

One of the most celebrated country-folk performers of her day, singer/songwriter Iris DeMent was born on January 5, 1961, in rural Paragould, Arkansas, the youngest of 14 children. At the age of three, her devoutly religious family moved to California, where she grew up singing gospel music; during her teenaged years, however, she was first exposed to country, folk, and R&B, drawing influence from Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. Upon graduating high school, she relocated to Kansas City to attend college.
After a series of jobs waitressing and typing, DeMent first began composing songs at the age of 25. Honing her skills at open-mike nights, she moved to Nashville in 1988, where she contacted producer Jim Rooney, who helped her land a record contract. DeMent did not make her recording debut until 1992, when her independent label offering, Infamous Angel, won almost universal acclaim thanks to her pure, evocative vocal style and spare, heartfelt songcraft. Despite a complete lack of support from country radio, the record's word-of-mouth praise earned her a deal with Warner Bros., which reissued Infamous Angel in 1993 as well as its follow-up, 1994's stunning My Life.
Her third LP, 1996's eclectic The Way I Should, marked a dramatic change not only in its more rock-influenced sound but also in its subject matter; where DeMent's prior work was introspective and deeply personal, The Way I Should was fiercely political, tackling topics like sexual abuse, religion, government policy, and Vietnam. In 1999, she collaborated with countryman John Prine on his album In Spite of Ourselves. DeMent recorded four duets with Prine that earned her a Grammy nod the following year. Her own recording career was on hiatus in the late '90s and early 2000s, but she returned in 2005 with Lifeline, a collection of gospel hymns. Released in 2012, Sing the Delta, her first album of original songs in 16 years, found her working again within the sparse and emotional quilt of her earlier releases. Dement returned three years later with 2015's The Trackless Woods, a collection of poems by 20th century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova adapted to music.

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