Events

Amos lee

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 7:30 PM

Tickets: $69 / $52 / $42 / $32
Friends of the BCPA receive a 15% discount (rounded down to the nearest dollar) on ticket prices for this show.

With one foot in the real world and the other in a charmed dimension of his own making, Amos Lee creates the rare kind of music that's emotionally raw, yet touched with a certain magical quality. On his eighth album, Dreamland, the Philadelphia-born singer/songwriter intimately documents his real-world struggles (alienation, anxiety, loneliness, despair), an outpouring born from deliberate and often painful self-examination. "For most of my life I've walked into rooms thinking, 'I don't belong here," says Lee. "I've come to the realization that I'm too comfortable as an isolated person, and I want to reach out more. This record came from questioning my connections to other people, to myself, to my past and to the future."

In the spirit of fostering connection, Lee made Dreamland in close collaboration with L.A.-based producer Christian "Leggy" Langdon (Banks, Meg Myers). "I met with Leggy, whoo I really didn't know anything about, and before we even started to work we had a very open and vulnerable conversationabout what was going on in our lives," he recalls. "So much of what I do is solitary work, and it felt good to find someone I could connect with--sort of like, 'I'm a lonely kid, and I wanna play.'" Thanks to that palpable sense of playfulness, Dreamland embodies an unpredictable and endlessly imaginative sound--a prime showcase for Lee's warmly commanding voice and soul-baring songwriting. 

Tickets for our shows may be purchased by phone at (309) 434-2777, or in person at the BCPA Box Office located at 600 N. East St., Bloomington, IL.

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