Phish frontman Trey Anastasio plays solo acoustic show at F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre on March 11
From a press release:
Today, legendary Phish frontman Trey Anastasio announced plans for a solo acoustic tour that will come to the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
This very special run gets underway on March 8 at Symphony Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts and then visits U.S. theaters and concert halls through early April, closing out at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey on April 5.
Doors at the Kirby Center (71 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre) open at 6 p.m., and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets, which are $59, $79, and $99, plus applicable fees, go on sale this Friday, Dec. 6 at 11 a.m. at the Kirby Center box office during regular business hours (Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.), online at kirbycenter.org and ticketmaster.com, and by phone at 570-826-1100. Real-time pre-sales begin Wednesday, Dec. 4 exclusively via Ticketstoday. A Kirby Member pre-sale begins Thursday, Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. There is a strict four-ticket limit for this concert.
Over the past four decades, composer/guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio has forged a singular, multi-faceted career, winning acclaim and garnering accolades across genres and disciplines, including rock, classical, musical theatre, and more. He is a founding member of Phish, one of today’s most successful and innovative rock bands. As a solo artist, he has released over two dozen studio and live albums and has toured extensively with the Trey Anastasio Band, Classic TAB, and other iterations.
In 2020, Anastasio recorded and released the pandemic-era album “Lonely Trip,” followed by his first album of solo acoustic material, “Mercy,” in 2022. Those two records generated much of the material found on “Evolve,” Phish’s 16th studio album. Anastasio’s latest release is “Atriums,” a six-chapter song suite of ambient, instrumental guitar compositions originally conceived of and recorded for Phish’s Sphere run.
In 2023, Anastasio – a lifelong philanthropist and advocate – established the Divided Sky Residential Recovery Program, a nonprofit organization dedicated to addiction recovery, and commemorated the opening of its brand new facility in Ludlow, Vermont. Founded by Anastasio in 2020, the Divided Sky Foundation’s inaugural fundraiser was “The Beacon Jams,” an eight-week live stream residency from New York City’s historic Beacon Theatre. In the fall of 2024, Anastasio and Phish raised over $4 million for the program with three sold-out benefit concerts in Albany, New York.
He has performed and collaborated with such artists as Bruce Springsteen, the Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews, Herbie Hancock (whose 2005 “Gelo na Montanha” earned Anastasio a Grammy nomination), Carlos Santana, Toots and the Maytals, B.B. King, The Roots, and – as part of the trio Oysterhead – Les Claypool of Primus and Stewart Copeland of The Police, one of the headliners of the 2021 Peach Music Festival in Scranton. He co-wrote the music for the Broadway musical “Hands on a Hardbody,” which received a Tony nomination for Best Original Score in 2013. This summer, Anastasio inducted Steely Dan into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
An accomplished composer and arranger, the 60-year-old musician has performed his original compositions with numerous symphonies, including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops at Tanglewood, the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, and many more. In 2023, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Anastasio among the greatest guitarists of all time.
