k.d. lang opens new Alys Stephens Center season

A season kick-off party precedes the show, with Mak Grgic opening for k.d. lang. Special VIP offers are also available.

kd lang streamGrammy Award winner k.d. lang will bring her “Ingénue Redux” tour to Birmingham on Friday, Sept. 14.

Singer-songwriter lang is the first performer in the new 2018-2019 season presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.

Western Canada native lang launched her career with a blend of country-rock stylings and playfully punk-like attitude, by turns whimsical and subversive. Back then, she practically put the alternative in alt-country. On this tour, lang celebrates the 25th anniversary celebration of the Grammy-award winning, platinum-selling and critically acclaimed album “Ingénue.” 

The season kick-off lobby party with food, drink and live entertainment begins at 6:30 p.m. and is free for ASC members. Tickets to the lobby party are $20 advance, $25 at the door. The performance will begin at 8 p.m.

Guitarist Mak Grgic will open for lang; Grgic is an up-and-coming performer in the guitar genre, who programs music as far-reaching as works from the avant-garde and film music to the great classics of guitar repertoire and transcriptions of Brahms and Kreisler.

Performance ticket prices are $87, $77 and $67, with a limited number of $10 student tickets. ASC members may receive $10 off single tickets (limit two). UAB faculty and staff may receive $15 off single tickets (limit two). A limited number of student, member, and faculty/staff tickets are available.

Two exclusive VIP offers are available with lang. The k.d. lang Meet and Greet Experience package is $399 and includes one reserved ticket in the first three rows; one individual meet and greet with lang; one individual photo opportunity with lang; essential k.d. lang VIP merchandise designed exclusively for VIPs, including an ultra-exclusive, autographed, limited-edition tour lithograph (based on original k.d. lang artwork); and one commemorative VIP tour laminate and matching lanyard.

The k.d. lang Diamond package is $199 and includes one reserved ticket in the first 10 rows; essential lang VIP merchandise designed exclusively for VIPs, including an ultra-exclusive, autographed, limited-edition tour lithograph (based on original k.d. lang artwork); and one commemorative VIP tour laminate and matching lanyard.