Jazz Articles about Ben Folds

About Ben Folds

Live Review

Ben Folds Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA December 8, 2025 The holiday season often feels like a cultural rhyme--an annual cycle where the visuals, smells, and sounds are intentionally, comfortingly, and sometimes maddeningly similar to those of previous years. This was the perspective that pianist and singer-songwriter Ben Folds explored last Monday night at SFJAZZ's Miner Auditorium. Touring in support of his 2024 Christmas album Sleigher (New West Records), Folds delivered a performance that was far ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ben Folds on Keeping Art Alive

by Steven Roby
November 28, 2025

In this episode of Backstage Bay Area, host Steve Roby interviews Ben Folds, the pianist, songwriter, and arts advocate who has spent three decades balancing sharp, story-driven pop songs with orchestral ambition. Fresh off the release of Ben Folds Live with the National Symphony Orchestra and deep into his work on the new holiday album Sleigher, Folds discusses what it means to keep art alive in a noisy, distracted culture. The conversation shifts from his years at the ...