The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present Grammy® Award winning artists, “Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin” together on stage on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Tickets are $45, $59, and $69.

With hits like “Passionate Kisses”, “I Feel Lucky” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five Grammys® (with 16 nominations), two Country Music Association awards, and two Academy of Country Music awards. She is one of only 15 female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Over the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has sold over 16 million records. In 2020, she recorded two albums - “The Dirt And The Stars,” released in Aug. 2020, and “One Night Lonely,” recorded live without an audience at the legendary Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Virginia during the COVID-19 shut down, and nominated for the 2022 Grammy® for Best Folk Album.

The New York Times describes her music as “an unclassifiable hybrid of pop, folk and country that she performs in the low, steady voice of someone confiding her thoughts in a journal,” adding that her voice is “made to engage in hushed heart-to-heart all-night conversations about things that really matter.”

Shawn Colvin stopped the industry in its tracks with her arresting 1989 debut, “Steady On”. The following spring, Colvin took home the Grammy® Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, establishing herself as a mainstay in the singer-songwriter genre. In the ensuing 30 years, Colvin has won three Grammys®, released thirteen superlative albums, written a critically acclaimed memoir, maintained a non-stop national and international touring schedule, appeared on countless television and radio programs, had her songs featured in major motion pictures and created a remarkable canon of work. Colvin triumphed at the 1998 Grammy®, winning both Record and Song of the Year for the Top 10 hit "Sunny Came Home," from the platinum-selling album “A Few Small Repairs.”

Colvin was recently honored with an induction into the 2019 Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, alongside legendary artists Lyle Lovett and Buddy Guy. In a moving induction speech, Jackson Browne praised her as "ineffable" - 'that which is impossible to express in words' --and extolled, "Not many writers are able to do what Shawn does. It's a very special way of relating what really matters. It takes an original to get our attention. Shawn is utterly original in her singing, and original in what she speaks about in her songs."

Tickets for Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin go on sale to the general public Friday, June 16 at 10 a.m. Venue online presale tickets go on sale on Thursday, June 15 at 10 a.m. Tickets can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com,

marychapincarpenter.com, shawncolvin.com, ubcfa.org  or in person at the Center for the Arts Box Office on Friday, June 16 and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from  12 - 5 p.m. For more ticket information call 716-645-2787 or ubcfatickets@buffalo.edu.