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Thursday, September 24, 2026  ·  8:00 PM CDT

Beth Orton

with special guest Kenny Stahl

4544 N Lincoln Ave · Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall · 773.728.6000

  • $61 General Public ($50 + $11 fee)
  • $59 Old Town School Members ($48 + $11 fee)

For more than 30 years, Beth Orton has been our antenna to the cosmos, the poet laureate of forces too vast to take in all at once. Her records arrive patiently, unified by emotional focus rather than any single musical style. From the pioneering folktronica of 1996's Trailer Park to the earthy classic-rock miniatures of 2006's Comfort of Strangers through 2022's self-produced Weather Alive, she has built a catalogue that exists proudly out of time, each album its own planet in an ever-expanding solar system.

If Weather Alive lived underwater, spectral and dreamlike, The Ground Above marks a resurfacing. It is her most direct and unapologetic music to date; profoundly urgent, embodied, and powered by a hard-won strength. Where the previous record unfolded in a suspended dreamscape, The Ground Above finds Orton firmly back on land, taking a giant intake of air. It documents survival, integration and renewal without denial, acceptance without resignation.

https://www.bethortonofficial.com/


Kenny Stahl

Michigan born multi instrumentalist Kenny Stahl has spent the last decade working in the shadows of modern music's biggest stages, quietly shaping the sonic architecture and live sets of heavyweights like Chance the Rapper, Mac Miller, Dijon, and Nathaniel Rateli .

After cutting his teeth everywhere from Jam Nights to backing Paul Simon at the legendary Newport Folk Festival, Stahl is finally stepping out from behind the curtain. His debut dark-folk project, I couldn't not do this, trades stadium chaos for a deeply cinematic, grit-and-atmosphere world built on raw storytelling and the sharp isolation of a life spent on the road.

Hitting the circuit this fall, Stahl brings the meticulous precision of a master technician to a live show that is intimate, haunting, and completely arresting - marking the arrival of a formidable new auteur in indie-folk.