Ben Folds & Cake at Texas Trust CU Theatre

Throughout his nearly 30-year career, American singer-songwriter and record producer Ben Folds has performed a variety of different roles: from lead singer and pianist of alt-rock band Ben Folds Five in the 1990s to his current role as Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Folds is a successful solo artist, with three albums and three EPs to his name (in addition to his four studio albums and one live album with Ben Folds Five), and in 2008 he produced Amanda Palmer's debut album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer?. He has collaborated on projects with several prominent musicians and authors, including William Shatner, Regina Spektor, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman, among others, and was a judge on the NBC a cappella singing contest The Sing-Off from 2009 – 2013. In 2017 he wrote the soundtrack for the Netflix original film Handsome.