Ruthie Foster Tickets

4x-GRAMMY® Award Nominated and 10x-Blues Music Award-Winning Singer & Songwriter RUTHIE FOSTER was Nominated for her most recent GRAMMY® Award in 2021 for the album 'Live At The Paramount' ("Best Contemporary Blues Album"). Foster has been Nominated 9 times for "Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year" at the Blues Music Awards - having won the award 7 times (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 & 2019). She has also been Nominated 3 times for "Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year" - most recently in 2022 - having won the award in 2010.

Foster's ninth studio album represents a new high water mark for the veteran blues artist—a collection of songs possessing pure power, like a tidal wave of musical generosity. 'Healing Time' (2022) finds Foster pushing her boundaries as a singer and songwriter more than ever before, creating a truly live-sounding atmosphere with the help of her band, who sound refreshingly loose and lived-in throughout these 12 songs. We’ve all been in need of some healing in recent times, and Foster’s latest provides a guide for how to move through the world with equal parts compassion and resolve.

'Healing Time' is the latest jewel in Foster’s accomplished career, which includes multiple GRAMMY® Award Nominations and collaborations with fellow luminaries like Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. The 'Healing Time’ is title—as well as its burst-of-sunshine title track, which features pedal steel legend Robert Randolph—is a reference not only to the trials many have faced over the last several years, but also the necessity of what Foster does as an artist.

“I hear fans tell me that the music we make is very spiritually healing,” she says. “The experience of dealing with my own grief after losing a band member a year before the pandemic while navigating around zoom school with my daughter and trying to figure out what to do with myself was tough but necessary. When I look at it as a whole it was all very healing for me which is pretty much how I try to live my life. There’s always time for healing, if you give it time.”

And 'Healing Time' is ultimately a work that explores such extremes as being human often brings to the surface, reminding listeners that even when we feel like we’re at the top, we’re ultimately still finding our way—a beautiful reflection of the essence of living itself.