“You are in the elite first wave of people to hear this stuff,” Ben Folds with a smirk, possibly no longer able to be serious on stage after nearly two decades of tongue planted firmly in cheek . . . CONTINUE READING Megan Bell's review.

Ben Folds at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA
September 26, 2008
Photo credit: Jamie Spear
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