Loudon Wainwright III

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Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III website: http://www.lw3.com/

2010 GRAMMY Winner (Best Traditional Folk Album) for High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (Two previous GRAMMY nominations: I'm Alright, 1985 and More Love Songs, 1986).

Best Album of 2009: High Wide & Handsome per NPR's Ken Tucker (Fresh Air & Entertainment Weekly magazine).

High Wide & Handsome named among the year's best per Village Voice, No Depression, FolkWax and fRoots.

"Mr. Wainwright has proved to be far and away the most candid diarist among the singer-songwriters who... brought confessional poetry into popular song... Mr. Wainwright wrings more human truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation." - New York Times, Stephen Holden

Songs covered by Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Earl Scruggs, Mose Allison, Big Star, Freakwater, Norma Waterson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright.

Film acting credits include: Judd Apatow's Knocked Up (for which he also recorded the soundtrack) and The 40 Year Old Virgin; Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration; Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown; Martin Scorsese's The Aviator; Tim Burton's Big Fish; 28 Days alongside Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen and Steve Buscemi; Jacknife alongside Robert De Niro and Ed Harris; Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife.

Television acting credits include: Parks and Recreation (w/ Amy Poehler); Undeclared (w/ Seth Rogen & writer/producer Judd Apatow); Grounded for Life; Ally McBeal; The T.V. Show (w/ Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Billy Crystal) where he played keyboard with the early Spinal Tap, which made it's first appearance on this program; a recurring role on M*A*S*H and a role as the original musician/sidekick on The David Letterman Show.

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The Black Seeds, Five Alarm Funk, Tanika Charles, Los Furios, DJ Kemo @ Victoria Curling Club - Jun 27, 2026

Lagwagon, Against All Authority, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Mean Bikini, VCS Sound System @ Victoria Curling Club - Jun 26, 2026

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2020

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Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright IIIcame to fame when Dead Skunk became a Top 20 hit in 1972. H...

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Mel Lehan Hall at St. James

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2019

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Loudon Wainwright III

Born in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1946, Loudon Wainwright III came to fame when “De...

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community hall

May

2012

20:00 22:00

2010 Grammy Award Winner (Best Traditional Folk Album): Loudon Wainwright III

2010 Grammy Award Winner (Best Traditional Folk Album) Loudon Wainwright III M...

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Hermann's Jazz Club

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2007

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Loudon Wainwright III, Gaye Delorme

Loudon Wainwright III grew up in the town of Bedford in wealthy Westchester Coun...

$28

Alix Goolden Performance Hall

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