Paula Cole at McKinney Performing Arts Center Nov. 22

Join McKinney Performing Arts Center for an exclusive performance with Grammy-winning artist Paula Cole on Sunday, November 22 at 7:00 pm in MPAC's Courtroom Theater. Paula Cole's performance at MPAC is sponsored by McKinney's own hip boutique, True Rumors.

From her start as a back up singer for Peter Gabriel to her Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Paula Cole is an incredibly talented singer/songwriter best known for mega-hits, "I Don’t Want to Wait," "Where Have All Cowboys Gone," and "Me." Drawing heavily from her ethereal, pretty sound, Cole creates songs that relied equally on dreamy melodies and poetic, introspective lyrics. With inventive arrangements built around Cole’s keyboards, her 2007 release, "Courage" re-established Cole's seminal role among the top female recording artists today.

MPAC Director, David Taylor comments, "Paula is a perfect fit for MPAC because both are classics, timeless and always relevant. Her voice and music will suspend you in time, much like our landmark theater."

Born the daughter of musicians in Rockport, Massachusetts, Cole grew up singing for fun; American songbooks, traditional folksongs, Christmas carols, a capella harmonies. While finding kindred spirits in records, she became a fixture in her school musicals, which catapulted her toward a scholarship for the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied jazz singing and improvisation.

In 1993, Peter Gabriel asked her to join his Secret World Tour, after hearing Cole's Imago debut, "Harbinger." Throughout 1994-6, Cole toured America extensively, building a foundation of support that then embraced her 1997 album "This Fire." It became a breakthrough smash, yielding the hits "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" and "I Don't Want to Wait" (which was used as the theme song to the hit WB show Dawson's Creek), and the 1997 Grammy win for Best New Artist. In 1999, she released her third, spiritually soul-influenced album "Amen."

From today's perspective, she has created her finest album: tender, tough, older, wiser… Cole steers her way through the manifold experiences of an adult American woman who has seen much, lost much, gained much, and yet has regained her innocence. Guided by producer and friend Bobby Colomby and Decca Records, it feels like the work of a woman who is in the right place at the right time.

Reserved seating tickets for Paula Cole range from $21 to $31 and are available through MPAC's Emerson Ticket Office at 214-544-4630, Tuesday through Friday, noon to 6:00 pm, or online anytime at www.mckinneyperformingartscenter.org. Additional support for Paula Cole's performance is provided by The Jewelry Fix.

PAULA COLE

McKinney Performing Arts Center

Sunday, November 22 at 7pm, Courtroom Theater

Tickets: $21-31