Ben Folds - Paper Airplane Request Tour

Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.

He's created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records.

He tours as a pop artist, while also performing with some of the world's greatest symphony orchestras, and currently serving as the Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

An Emmy-nominated composer, Folds is also a New York Times Best Selling author and podcast host, and frequently guest stars in film and TV.

An advocate for the arts, he serves on the Board of the Arts Action Fund, Planet Word and the Nashville Symphony, and has launched a music education initiative for kids in his home state of North Carolina.

Ben Folds initially embarked on his first "Paper Airplane Request Tour" in 2017, where he'd randomly select fan-requested songs from paper airplanes and perform them solo. The new US tour will feature the same concept, and will be Ben Folds' first shows of 2024. "The last time I did this on tour the response was overwhelming, with literally hundreds of paper airplanes with song requests being launched on cue from fans at the start of the second half of each of my concerts," said Folds in a statement. "It's the purest, most low-tech form of engagement that creates a special bond with my audiences."