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“The Sing-Off” judge lineup confirmed

Jul 2nd, 2013
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The Sing-OffThe schedule and lineup of judges has been announced for the fourth season of NBC Television’s hit a cappella competition show The Sing-Off.

Ben Folds joins returning judge Shawn Stockman and new judge Jewel, who replaces Sara Bareilles. Nick Lachey continues as host.

The show will air as a holiday strip, similar to the first two seasons when it appeared over multiple nights for a short run in December. The third season was a weekly serial running across the first half of the season. Contestant auditions were held in four cities in April of this year.

The Grammy-nominated Jewel just finished starring as June Carter Cash in Lifetime Television’s biography Ring of Fire. She’s also released a greatest-hits album this year.

 

Ben and his studio featured in Mix Magazine

May 6th, 2013
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mix_cover_may2013Ten years ago, on returning to the US from Australia, Ben Folds purchased a heritage studio in Nashville, primarily as a workshop and creative space. The studio, originally built by Chet Atkins for RCA Victor Records in the 1960s, has seen sessions by Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison and Dolly Parton. A story about the legendary recording space is featured in the cover story in the May 2013 issue of Mix Magazine, the leading magazine of professional audio and music production, and the cover (shown at left) depicts Ben at the keyboard in what was commonly known as RCA Studio A. (more…)

“The Sing-Off” returns for 4th season

Apr 12th, 2013
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The Sing-OffAfter initially not renewing the popular a cappella competition show, NBC Television has announced it has ordered a fourth season of The Sing-Off to run during the 2013 holiday season.

The show has announced casting calls this month and next in various places around the country.

Everybody’s curious, of course, as to who the judges will be, and naturally Ben Folds’ name comes up in that discussion. Ben says he hasn’t started negotiating with the show’s producers yet, but he expects that his people will be talking to their people in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

BF5 on Jimmy Kimmel

Nov 2nd, 2012
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Ben Folds Five will be guests on ABC Television’s late night variety show Jimmy Kimmel Live. The show airs Monday night, November 5. Update: Watch here if you missed it. They did Erase Me.

Wait, wait – it’s Ben Folds Five!

Oct 3rd, 2012
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This weekend, Ben Folds Five becomes part of one of public radio’s most popular shows as Ben joins Peter Sagal, fellow North Carolinian Carl Kasell and the panel on Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me.

Wait Wait is a weekly light-hearted news quiz program in which a panel of columnists, satirists and commentators discuss the week’s serious and strange events in a nutty way that will have you laughing. It’s recorded each week in front of a live audience, usually at the Chase Auditorium in Chicago, though they go on tour a couple times a year. Listeners call in (1-888-WAIT-WAIT) to play games like the Listener Limerick Challenge, where they have to complete a series of limericks about the news, or Bluff the Listener, where the caller has to figure out which of three offbeat news stories is the real one.

The most popular segment, though, is called Not My Job, where a celebrity guest (more…)

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