Folds and Hornby will appear in a benefit performance as part of Spin Magazine’s Liner Notes series with proceeds going to Housing Works, a New York City agency providing support to homeless people struggling with HIV/AIDS, to ensure they and their families have adequate housing, food and support. The event takes place at Housing Works’ bookstore cafe, and tickets are $35 and are on sale via Housing Works’ website. Spin notes that capacity for the show is limited, so select video of the performance will be available on SPIN.com in the days following the show.
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series performance
Ben and Nick Hornby will team up for an evening as part of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s Reading Series.  Hornby will read from JULIET, NAKED accompanied by “musical short stories†from Lonely Avenue. It’s open to the public.  Information and tickets on the Tour Dates page.
Related show
National Geographic Channel: Music on Photography
Ben’s photographic works will be featured on the National Geographic Channel’s National Geographic Live in a series titled Music on Photography. (We wrote about his photos of the Nashville flood being featured online at National Geographic back in May.) The series includes conversation with and the photography of musicians Neko Case, Andy Summers and Ben Folds, and music photographer Danny Clinch. Mark Seliger, renowned photographer for Esquire and Vanity Fair, will moderate the series, which debuts November 10. Folds’ appearance is Friday, December 3.  The series is open to the public and tickets can be purchased through nglive.org.
The Sing-Off, Season 2
The second season of last fall’s NBC-TV runaway hit The Sing-Off goes back into production with episodes slated to be recorded August 16 and 23 and September 2 and 8 at NBC’s Culver City, California studios. Last year’s host, Nick Lachey, and panel of judges, Ben Folds, Shawn Stockman and Nicole Scherzinger, are scheduled to return. Free audience tickets are available and being issued on line while they last.
