PHOTOS: Norah Jones at Artpark

Multi-Grammy-Award-winning singer, songwriter and pianist Norah Jones headlined a near sold-out performance at Artpark on Saturday. Jones performed new songs and hit songs for an enthusiastic audience, which extended all the way up the lawn at the Lewiston venue.

Mavis Staples opened and drew a standing ovation following her set and peace-affirming interactions.

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More About Norah Jones

Jones emerged on the world stage with the 2002 release of “Come Away With Me,” her self-described “moody little record” that introduced a singular new voice and grew into a global phenomenon, sweeping the 2003 Grammy Awards (including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist). Since then, Jones has become a nine-time Grammy-winner, sold more than 52 million albums, and her songs have been streamed 10 billion times worldwide.

She has released a series of critically acclaimed and commercially successful solo albums, including “Feels Like Home” (2004), “Not Too Late” (2007), “The Fall” (2009), “Little Broken Hearts” (2012), “Day Breaks” (2016), “Pick Me Up Off The Floor” (2020), the live album “ ‘Til We Meet Again” (2021), her holiday album “I Dream Of Christmas” (2021), and “Visions” (2024).

In 2022, Jones launched her podcast, “Norah Jones Is Playing Along,” which features candid conversations and impromptu musical collaborations with some of her favorite musicians.

 

More on Mavis Staples

Hailed by NPR as “one of America’s defining voices of freedom and peace,” Staples is the kind of once-in-a-generation artist whose impact on music and culture would be difficult to overstate. She’s both a Blues and a Rock & Roll hall of famer; a civil rights icon; a three-time Grammy Award-winner (with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award); a chart-topping soul, gospel and R&B pioneer; a National Arts Awards Lifetime Achievement recipient; named to Rolling Stone’s “Top 200 Singers of All Time” (No, 46); and a Kennedy Center honoree.

She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., performed at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, and sang in Barack Obama’s White House. Over the past few decades alone, she’s collaborated with everyone from Prince and Bob Dylan to Arcade Fire and Bon Iver, blown away countless festivalgoers from Newport Folk and Glastonbury to Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, and graced the airwaves and the Grammys.