WILMINGTON — Two songstresses well-known in their respective industries are performing in Wilmington in 2025.
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American bluegrass and country performer Alison Krauss, best known for performing with her band Union Station, is coming to Live Oak Bank Pavilion.
Jazz chanteuse Diana Krall is coming to Wilson Center. Below is information on how and when to get tickets.
Diana Krall
Legendary pianist and singer Diana Krall will perform on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., at Cape Fear Community College’s Wilson Center.
Two-time Grammy winner Krall has eight albums that have topped the Billboard Jazz Albums chart, many of which have gone gold, platinum and multi-platinum. Her 1999 release “When I Look in Your Eyes” spent 52 weeks on the jazz charts, earning her the Grammy.
The Canadian artist, who began studying piano at age 4, also has won 10 Juno Awards for 2017’s “Turn Up the Quiet.” By 15, she was performing jazz at the encouragement of her stride pianist father before earning a Berklee College of Music scholarship and thereafter moving to L.A.
To date, she has released more than a dozen albums, including 2020’s “This Dream of You,” produced by Tommy LiPuma, with whom Krall worked with for 25 years. “Autumn In New York,” a cinematic ode directed by long-time collaborator and friend Mark Seliger, offers a visual complement to the song as well.
Krall — married to Elvis Costello, who also performed at Wilson Center in 2023 — has collaborated with various artists throughout her career, including Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, and Tony Bennett.
Tickets to her show will go on sale for Wilson Center members on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 10 a.m. and to the general public on Friday, Dec. 6, at 10 a.m., here. Contact the box office at (910) 362-7999 from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, or purchase them in person during the same hours.
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Krauss toured through Wilmington in 2023 with Led Zeppelin’s frontman Robert Plant off the heels of their sophomore collaboration, “Raise the Roof” — a followup to 2007’s “Raising Sand.”
This time around she is coming through with her band of 36 years, Union Station, in the spring. The group has released five albums to date. 1992’s “Every Time You Say Goodbye,” 1997’s “So Long, So Wrong” and 2001’s “New Favorite” earned the group Grammys for Best Bluegrass Album of the year.
The band has toured with Willie Nelson and Family, as well as Kacey Musgraves and has had numerous iterations. They were featured on T-Bone Burnett’s Grammy-winning soundtrack for the 2001 Coen brothers’ movie “O’ Brother Where Art Thou?” with then-guitarist Dan Tyminski overdubbing George Clooney’s vocals on “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow.”
Today Union Station is made up of dobro and lap-steel guitar player and bluegrass icon Jerry Douglas, guitarist Russell Moore, bassist Barry Bales and banjo player Ron Block. Krauss also plays fiddle, in addition to sings with the band.
The 2025 Arcadia Tour is the band’s first in a decade and will have 73 stops in Canada and the U.S., including in Wilmington on April 26, 2025, with special guest Willie Watson. Alison Krauss and Union Station are also slated to release new music in 2025.
Tickets go on sale here on Friday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m. Pre-sales take place Dec. 4, 10 a.m.
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