Jeffrey Foucault to wow crowd at ECC Arts Center
Singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault will perform at the Elgin Community College Arts Center on Saturday, March 15. The performance will be held at 7 p.m. in the SecondSpace Theatre in the Building H Arts Center at the college, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.
Foucault is a longtime disciple of the rich and strange music that sings behind the American veil. His father played a plywood guitar and his mother liked to sing. Born and raised in Whitewater, Wis., Foucault went to college and dropped out, took a job on a fruit farm and started writing songs about a girl from Iowa. He finished school, roofed houses, drove a snowplow, and home-schooled the son of the local bar owner in exchange for beer.
He cut his first album in the winter of 2000. He has spent the last decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing a string of spare and elemental albums of rare power while garnering accolades across the United States and overseas for a tersely elegant brand of songwriting set apart by its haunting imagery and weather-beaten cool. His latest album is "Horse Latitudes."
Foucault's sound and songwriting has been compared to Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. The New Yorker says "Jeffrey Foucault, sings stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest" and No Depression calls his album Hose Latitudes " … pure beauty and one of the best Americana albums this year."
Tickets are $25. A three-course, preshow dinner prepared by ECC's award-winning Culinary Arts and Hospitality program can be purchased for an additional $29. Dinners must be purchased by Monday, March 10.
Tickets for all performances in the ECC Arts Center are available online at tickets.elgin.edu or at the ECC Arts Center box office; hours are noon to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and noon to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. To purchase tickets by phone, call (847) 622-0300. All major credit cards are accepted.
Visit elgin.edu/arts for information about the ECC Arts Center, including video clips of upcoming artists and events, the Standing Room Only blog, and links to the Arts Center's Twitter and Facebook pages.
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