The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s presents Mary Chapin Carpenter at the Grand Opera House on Sunday 24 October. 

Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist who has scored twelve Top 10 hits and four No. 1 singles.

Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards, and is the only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, which she received from 1992 to 1995.

She has been touring and recording since her debut album, 1987's Hometown Girl. 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts.

Carpenter's most successful album to date remains 1992's Come On Come On, which yielded seven charting country singles and was certified quadruple platinum in the U.S. for sales exceeding four million copies.

She followed it with Stones in the Road (1994) and A Place in the World (1996), which both featured hit singles. In the 2000s, Carpenter's albums departed both thematically and musically from her early work, becoming more focused on societal and political issues. Her most acclaimed and most topical album to date, The Calling, was released in March 2007.

This year, Mary Chapin released her twelfth album, The Age of Miracles, which she began writing in the summer of 2007 during her recovery from a pulmonary embolism. 

For further information, please visit www.marychapincarpenter.com.