Kentucky Performing Arts Presents Violent Femmes At Old Forester's Paristown Hall

Kentucky Performing Arts will present Violent Femmes at Old Forester's Paristown Hall on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are on-sale now.

Seminal Alt Rockers Violent Femmes will be giving fans a one-two punch this Spring when they perform both their ground-breaking, debut, self-titled album and their sophomore release, Hallowed Ground, during a limited run of shows.

Serving as a sonic time capsule for the soul, these special shows will capture a pivotal moment in music as Femmes' Lead Vocalist and Guitarist Gordon Gano wrote the songs for both albums while he was still in high school.

Their eponymous record, once hailed as the “soundtrack to male puberty,” amplified teenage angst and alienation in the 1980s with such songs as “Kiss Off,” “Add It Up,” and “Gone Daddy Gone.” The album, which was mostly autobiographical, would later prove to embody some of the most relatable and enduring anthems of a disenchanted youth that the world has ever known. It has now sold three million copies worldwide and is still in rotation on today's top rock stations, cementing it as more than a simple battle cry for misunderstood adolescence.

For the remainder of the '90s, Violent Femmes continued to record new material, while their earliest songs remained in the zeitgeist, thanks to popular shows and films like “My So-Called Life,” Reality Bites, and Grosse Pointe Blank. Since that time, the band has released 10 studio albums including their most recent Hotel Last Resort (2019).

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• The Kentucky Center at 501 W. Main St.
• The Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway
• Old Forester's Paristown Hall, 724 Brent St.

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