Paula Cole

First shows of 2019 are this weekend: Tonight 2/22 Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center tix still available on paulacole.com. Tomorrow 2/23 Gardiner, ME is SOLD OUT. Thank you for your support as I walk my path. Love you all very much. See you soon!

Repost @m_beauty_lounge Thank you for making me platinum and capturing this candid moment ♥️

Thank you @recordingacademy for such a memorable #Grammy night for me (1998). Congratulations to all the nominees this year!

2019 TOUR DATES posted for February, March and April! Tickets at paulacole.com for my concerts and the special @etheridgecruise Looking forward to the music and reunion with you! As always I’m grateful, thank you🙏🏽. Also thank you @merrifairy for this beautiful photograph and for seeing me. This is 1997. #throwback

#throwbackthursday 📷 by @betosanx

Thank you Spotify for your placement of my songs on your playlists in 2018! Thank you everyone for listening! xo, Paula.

Dear ones, 2019 is the 25th anniversary of ‘Harbinger’ and the 20th anniversary of ‘Amen.’ I’ll be performing songs from these two albums as well as other favorites on the dates listed. As always tickets on my site. Hope to see all you beautiful people there— Feb 22 Greenfield , MA @hawksandreed Feb 23rd Gardiner, ME @johnsonhall1864 March 7th Alexandria, VA @thebirchmere March 8th Skokie, IL @northshorecenterskokie March 23rd Janesville, WI #janesvilleperformingartscenter

Sending my sincere holiday wishes for comfort and joy to you, movement in 2019 towards Universal Empathy between people, planet and animals. Hope to see you on my tour travels. From my home to yours, love from Me.

So very excited about these next two shows- my last or 2019. I’ll be playing lots of holiday classics, and favorites from my catalogue. Hope to see you there. As always tickets on my site🌲🎄

Me & beautiful pianist/human being, Bob Thompson, for his program Joy To The World! On @npr @mountainstage. Tonight we talked about our favorite pianists (Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal.) Tomorrow we play some Christmas classics together. Coming to an NPR radio station to you soon...

#Throwback 1994 with the amazing #BobThompson. Playing two shows with him 12/13 12/14 at @mountainstage Tickets via my website www.paulacole.com #JoyToTheWorldWithBobThompson

Omar & I sing “Let It Snow”🤘🏽 My last concerts for 2019 are this week! 12/13-14 Charleston W. VA @mountainstage /15 Natick MA @natickarts & 12/16 Cotuit MA(@cotuitcenterforthearts- bring a loved one (or not!) and feel the joy of music with sing-alongs and community. Love you all very much, Paula.

L-R: @nonahendryx, @terrilynecarrington, Moi, @valeriesashford. These amazing souls raised the roof last night. So humbled and honored. Just love you is all.

After show w L-R @the_cabot’s Casey Spears, Moi, @doylebramhall2 & @ceebrew. Thanks everyone for the Hot Time In Old Town.

Last night’s benefit for @the_cabot honoring Bessie Smith was quite simply a spiritual experience for me. Bessie’s music continues to heal and embolden us 100 years after its creation. I’m still honored and touched by the support of @officialmeshell, @terrilynecarrington , @nonahendryx, @ValerieSimpson, @shemekia.copeland, @domflemons , @doylebramhall2 , and @thewesternden. Thank you to all in attendance for the experience, it was once in a lifetime good.

@officialmeshell & me after the show last night. What a night. So much love in the house and everyone touched still by Bessie Smith.

Thank you JimSullivanInk for your lovely, lively article in The Boston Globe for our show this coming Tuesday December 4th at The Cabot in Beverly, Massachusetts. We honor Bessie Smith and fundraise for our community theater, one of the last standing American silent theaters. Thank you everyone for keeping music alive.

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to you and yours. Incredibly grateful for my community, YOU. Wishing everyone health, happiness, safety, freedom, love. I will see you on the road 2019-2020 as we celebrate some important anniversaries for Harbinger, Amen, and the NEW ALBUM. Please stay tuned for announcements! From my heart to yours, I wish you joy! Paula🙏🏽

My final, full concerts for 2018 are homecomings, in Massachusetts: The Center For Arts Natick (TCAN) and Cotuit Center for the Arts Dec 15 and 16. Please come join me! Tickets are at this link below, paulacole.com under 'tour'. Love you all and wishing everyone everything wonderful. Always, Paula. http://www.paulacole.co/

When The Cabot opened, Bessie Smith was 22 years old. We are celebrating a local theater as it achieves its Centennial birthday, honoring an Empress. Bessie was a survivor, too, a liberated woman. I believe it's important we look to music that was popular at the time of the birth of The Cabot, and who better than Bessie, a heroine to so many. As difficult as you may find life sometimes, imagine how it was for Bessie. Then listen to her sing those fascinating, rich lyrics that speak of such joy, such depth, such humor, irreverence and redemption. Listen to her voice - a time capsule to an era of strong blues shouters - and therein lies passion and grit. Bessie calls it like it is and makes you laugh, too. Hers was a time of great matriarchs in music (Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday). Bessie remains profoundly influential, running in the musical veins of anyone with a heartbeat, and from the greatest of artists, from Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Queen Latifah, to those present at this concert, Nona hendryx, Terri Lyne Carrington, Valerie Simpson, Shemekia Copeland, Doyle Bramhall II, Meshell Ndegeocello. Now more than ever, it's important we know our history. Even while Bessie suffered blistering segregation and racism, her band musicians were often diverse. And such is music, a unifier, a healer of hearts, of society. Let's gather in celebration for this gorgeous little theater, let's help The Cabot achieve its financial goals to renovate itself to remain an iconic, lasting venue for generations to come. The Cabot has been nourishing our community for 100 years! Let's step back in time in this former silent theater, let's enter the musical speakeasy of an incredible book of songs, and celebrate our lives today with the legacy passed to us by a goddess.

Looking forward to our gig tonight at Stone Mountain Arts Center, a great treasure in the White Mountains. Thank you to all in attendance for your support. Love you very much, Paula.

Shot from my tour 📸 @wilmur82

a shot from my oakland nov/8th show. for a full list of my tour dates for 2018-2019 visit my website www.paulacole.com

Thank you Seattle for last night, and for your evergreen love and support. 📸 by @foxxaesthetixx

Thank you Seattle for last night, and for your evergreen love and support. 📸 by @foxxaesthetixx