"One of the finest singer-songwriters in America" (Guardian), Iris Dement is “the best singer I’ve ever heard” (Merle Haggard), and she makes her Harris Center debut with the illustrious Loudon Wainwright: “He wrings more human truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation" (New York Times). His songs have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, his son Rufus Wainwright, and Mose Allison, among others, while her music has earned multiple Grammy® nominations, and the respect of John Prine, Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris, each of whom has invited her to collaborate—she’s "one of the great voices in contemporary popular music" ( NPR ).
