Harris Center Welcomes Kevin Costner & Modern West This Weekend

While prolific movie star, Kevin Costner, commands the microphone and his band, Modern West, accompanies with Americana roots and rock instrumentals, the imagery is nicely atmospheric. The all-American boy persona Costner has perfected effectively complements the whole enterprise. Costner started touring musically in an endeavor to connect with his fans on a more personal level, sharing his love of music and lighting up the stage with a band of musicians that balances perfectly with his laid back, intimate, rock 'n' roll musings.

Kevin Costner & Modern West takes place tonight, August 7, 2015 at 8:00 pm (sign-interpreted performance) and Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 8:00 pm. Tickets are priced at $55-85; Premium $95. Tickets are available online at www.harriscenter.net or from the Harris Center Ticket Office at 916-608-6888 from 10 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket. Harris Center is located on the west side of Folsom Lake College campus in Folsom, CA, facing East Bidwell Street.

As a young man, Kevin Costner wrote poetry, sang in a Baptist choir, excelled at baseball and built his own canoe. Attending California State University at Fullerton in 1973, Costner married and drifted, but after a meeting with Richard Burton on a plane flight, he decided to pursue an acting career. In The Untouchables, No Way Out and the baseball films, Bull Durham and Ray Kinsella and Field of Dreams, Costner carved out his niche as an upstanding hero.

Convinced by his own moral force, he directed and starred in Dances With Wolves in 1991, which was hugely successful commercially and garnered critical acclaim. He picked up two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and secured a host of other accolades and nominations including a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. After Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Costner starred in Oliver Stone's JFK, which led to a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination. He followed this with The Bodyguard, a box office hit that saw him team up with musician Whitney Houston. The film grossed more than $410 million globally, making it the second highest-grossing movie of 1992 worldwide. Costner found success with 2005's The Upside of Anger, which earned him the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor. Rumor Has It saw him try his hand at comedy when he teamed up with Jennifer Aniston, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins and Mena Suvari for the 2005 flick.

Over the next few years he appeared in The Guardian, Mr Brooks, Swing Vote, The New Daughter, and 2010's The Company Men. His latest roles were in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2013), 3 Days To Kill (2014) and Draft Day'(2014). With the encouragement of his wife, Christine Baumgartner, whom he wedded in 2004, Costner embarked on a country music career. His band, Kevin Costner & Modern West, went on a worldwide tour in 2007 followed by studio albums 'Untold Truths' in 2008 and 'Turn It On' in 2010 and have continued to tour wherever Costner is filming on location and has now expanded to a band that tours and does shows for the pure and simple joy of it, which is evidenced through the amazing time they have onstage and the intimate experience in which they envelop their audiences.

The band, Kevin Costner and Modern West, consists of Kevin Costner, John Coinman on guitar, Teddy Morgan out of Nashville is the lead guitarist and producer, Larry Cobb from Tucson keeps the beat, Park Chisolm on vocals and guitar, Roddy Chong, Bobby Yang from Atlanta, and Luke Bulla from Nashville play fiddle alternatively.

For more information please visit www.kevincostnermodernwest.com.

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