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Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway to open UGA Presents season

Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway will begin the 2024-2025 UGA Presents season on Sept. 5. (Submitted photo)

The 2024-2025 UGA Presents season opens Sept. 5 at 7:30 p.m. with a Hodgson Concert Hall performance by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway.

Tuttle, a two-time Grammy Award winner, “marries the improvisatory solos of traditional bluegrass with singer-songwriter sophistication” (NPR Music). Together with her band, Golden Highway, she’s bringing her truly original and unmistakable musical perspective to Athens.

The new UGA Presents series is the university’s biggest yet, with more than 40 performances ranging from Americana to world music, classical music to jazz, theatre to dance.

Tuttle, a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist, and Golden Highway released their latest album, “City of Gold,” in July 2023 on Nonesuch Records. The Grammy-nominated album follows Tuttle’s acclaimed 2022 record, “Crooked Tree,” which won Best Bluegrass Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards and led NPR Music to call her “a female flat picker extraordinaire with agility, speed, and elegance who distinctively brings American roots music into the spotlight.”

Raised in Northern California, Tuttle moved to Nashville in 2015. In the years since, she’s been nominated for Best New Artist at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, won Album of the Year at the 2023 International Folk Music Awards, Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2022 International Bluegrass Music Awards, Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards, and Guitar Player of the Year at the IBMAs in both 2017 and 2018, the first woman to receive the honor. Tuttle has performed around the world, including shows with Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Hiss Golden Messenger, Jason Isbell, Old Crow Medicine Show and Dwight Yoakam, as well as at several major festivals, including Newport Folk Festival and Pilgrimage.

This performance is supported by Dianne D. Wall and Deana and Steven Jones.

Three ways to get tickets

  1. Purchase tickets online at pac.uga.edu.
  2. Call the Performing Arts Center box office at 706-542-4400, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  3. Visit the UGA Performing Arts Center box office, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (five-minute parking is available in the drop off circle at the Performing Arts Center for purchasing or picking up tickets.)

To learn more about all UGA Performing Arts Center events, visit pac.uga.edu.

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