RIMES SET TO PERFORM IN CONCERT AT THE VIRGINIA THEATRE ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.
Champaign, IL – The Champaign Park District will host two-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter LeAnn Rimes in concert at the historic Virginia Theatre, Champaign, Friday, September 9, 2022, at 7:30 P.M. Reserved seating tickets are $39.50 to $79.50, plus an additional per-ticket processing fee of $3.50 to $6.50. Tickets are on sale at the Virginia Theatre Box Office, online at thevirginia.org, or charge by phone at 217-356-9063. Presented by the Champaign Park District.
Ms. Rimes will also release god’s work—a collection of new original music three years in the making—on Saturday, September 16, 2022. The performer’s 19th album, god’s work features guest artist appearances by Ziggy Marley, Ben Harper, Ledisi, legendary percussionist Sheila E., and country singer Mickey Guyton, among others.
LeAnn Rimes was interviewed earlier this month (CBS Mornings, August 1) about her renewed focus on unity and healing and has stated that she hopes listeners to the new album will be inspired to “be more accepting and get to doing what we’re all put here to do, which is to create a more loving world for one another.” A prolific performer who first became an international star at the age of 13, Rimes has spoken about the challenges of growing up in the limelight, adding, “I needed to be at the place I am in my life now in order to release this record whole-heartedly. It’s so empowering that I am finally there.” For a recent interview with American Songwriter magazine about Rimes’ entertainment industry journey and also the new album, visit: https://americansongwriter.com/digital-cover-story-leann-rimes-is-ready-for-gods-work-on-14th-album/.
Rimes received a special honor this past spring when the acclaimed CMT Crossroads program devoted an entire episode to the singer, commemorating her 25th anniversary as a recording artist and recognizing the path she blazed forward for women in all genres. The sixty-minute program, CMT Crossroads: Leann Rimes & Friends, was initially broadcast April 15, 2022 (click this link to see a clip of Rimes performing with Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde: https://leannrimes.com/videos/leann-rimes-carly-pearce-ashley-mcbryde-perform-one-way-ticket-cmt-crossroads/).
LeAnn Rimes: the story… so far tour
LeAnn Rimes is an international multi-platinum selling singer and ASCAP award-winning songwriter who has sold more than 48 million units globally, won 2 Grammy Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, 2 World Music Awards, 3 Academy of Country Music Awards, 2 Country Music Association Awards, and 1 Dove Award.
At 14, Ms. Rimes won “Best New Artist,” making her the youngest solo artist ever to take home a Grammy Award, and, at 15, she became the first country artist to win “Artist of the Year” at the Billboard Music Awards.
Out of the 42 singles she has released throughout her expansive career, LeAnn’s ballad “How Do I Live” holds the record as Billboard’s Hot 100 all-time #1 hit by a female artist and continues to rank #4 on Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time: Hot 100 Song.” 15 of her multi-genre singles are top-10 hits, including “Can’t Fight the Moonlight,” which went #1 in 11 countries. Her 16th studio album, Remnants, released in 2017, garnered two #1 Billboard Dance hits with “Long Live Love” and “LovE is LovE is LovE,”. In 2018, the artist starred and served as an Executive Producer in Hallmark’s It’s Christmas, Eve, which earned the highest TV original movie debut to-date for the channel premiering to over 4.3 million viewers. In 2020, Rimes won season four of FOX’s The Masked Singer.
Passionate about using her voice to help heal the world, LeAnn Rimes was honored with the Ally of Equality Award by the Human Rights Campaign for her over 20 years of support of equal rights, the 2019 HOPE Award for Depression Advocacy, and 2009 ACM Humanitarian Award, among other recognitions.
For more, visit: https://leannrimes.com/
