PHIPPSBURG

Singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer will perform in concert at Phippsburg Congregational Church on Sunday at 4 p.m., accompanied by pianist Gary Walters.

The Grammy-winning songwriter has been described as “a soaring songstress” by Billboard, a “prairie mystic” by the Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone said she was “rapturously tuneful,” adding that “Newcomer’s material asks all the right questions.”

Newcomer has recorded 15 solo albums and this year will be inducted into The Great American Songbook Foundation. She has toured throughout U.S. and Europe, and has recorded with Alison Krauss and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

In 2003, Nickel Creek recorded Newcomer’s “I Should’ve Known Better” on their gold-selling, Grammy winning album “This Side.”

She was listed as one of “the 50 most influential folk musicians of the past 50 years” by Chicago’s WFMT radio and has been twice named Folk Wax magazine artist and album of the year. Boston’s WUMB radio station included her on their list of the most influential artists of the past 25 years.

Newcomer has also become a voice for social justice and interfaith dialogue. Recently she was featured on Krista Tippett’s NPR show “On Being” and has received numerous awards for both her music and her charity.

Newcomer has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London’s Royal Festival Hall, a humble rural school in Africa, a women’s cooperative in India, a Quaker meeting house in Ramala and in an Indiana women’s penitentiary.

The Phippsburg show will be performed at the 1802 Phippsburg Congregational Church, located at 10 Church Lane. Tickets are $18 and are available from the church and online at BrownPaperTickets.com. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. For more information, call (207) 389-1770.

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