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Grammy-winner Paula Cole (“I Don’t Want to Wait,” “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?”) brings her soul-stirring blend of folk, pop, and jazz.

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A Night with Paula Cole & Sophie B Hawkins

Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts

Truth-teller, provocateur, feminist, and brilliant autobiographical writer Paula Cole is coming to Toronto!

Paula Cole

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Paula Cole’s eleventh studio album, Lo is devastatingly personal and utterly gorgeous. Her first album of original compositions in five years, Lo’s eleven songs, written entirely by Cole, navigate her opening to trust again after indelible blows of life. As the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Producer Grammy in her own right, Paula Cole returns to the helm of recording as sole producer. On Lo, her loyal bandmates of many years (musicians that are stars unto themselves) join Cole in the studio. Lo was recorded entirely live, featuring full band performances from Jay Bellerose (drums), Chris Bruce (guitars), Ross Gallagher (upright and electric bass, backing vocals) and Rich Hinman (pedal steel, guitars). It was recorded and mixed by nine-time-Grammy-award-winning-engineer, Mike Piersante, whose unique sound is

An Evening with Paula Cole

South Orange Performing Arts Center

Please join us for the final performances of the Vocal Perspectives on Songwriting class. Created and regularly visited by the Grammy Award-winning Paula Cole, this class is taught by singer-songwriter and voice department faculty member Kristin Cifelli. Come celebrate the thought-provoking and original perspectives of your peers in song. 

Vocal Perspectives on Songwriting Final Recital Spring 2024

David Friend Recital Hall

Finding the Artist Within features students of professor Nichelle Mungo and visiting scholar Paula Cole, and cultivates the whole artist within self-accompanied singer-songwriters. Each student comes with uniquely extraordinary giftedness. You will hear thought provoking, soul stirring, authentic messages of need, hope, and healing in their songs.

Finding the Artist Within Spring 2024

Paula Cole’s songwriting pushes boundaries and touches hearts. Known for such smash hits as, “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” and “I Don’t Want to Wait,” the GRAMMY® winning artist recently released For The Birds, a new set of songs recorded with fellow luminaries and GRAMMY® Award-winners Jason Isbell and John Paul White.

An evening with Paula Cole

Lobero Theatre

Get ready to be enthralled by the raw power of Paula Cole’s live performance here in the Tri-Valley! With her soulful voice and electrifying stage presence, she’s sure to leave you breathless. Don’t miss this chance to witness one of music’s greatest talents in person!

Livermore Performing Arts Center

Singer/songwriter Paula Cole’s father was a teacher who played bass in a polka band called Johnny Prytko and the Connecticut Hi-Tones. He brought home Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash records and Cole learned to sing “Delta Dawn” as a child. By the time she got to the Berklee College of Music, she had decided she wanted to be a jazz singer. “I loved jazz, but I ran into inner psychological walls,” she said. “I felt some ‘imposter syndrome’ being a white person singing an African-American art form. It led me to the truth that I needed to write my own music, so I left the path of jazz and began writing and recording my own songs.”

Lyric Theatre

Paula Cole’s eleventh studio album, Lo, is devastatingly personal and utterly gorgeous.

Her first album of original compositions in five years, Lo’s eleven songs, written entirely by Cole, navigate her opening to trust again after indelible blows of life. As the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Producer Grammy in her own right, Paula Cole returns to the helm of recording as sole producer. On Lo, her loyal bandmates of many years (musicians that are stars unto themselves) join Cole in the studio. Lo was recorded entirely live, featuring full band performances from Jay Bellerose (drums), Chris Bruce (guitars), Ross Gallagher (upright and electric bass, backing vocals) and Rich Hinman (pedal steel, guitars). It was recorded and mixed by nine-time Grammy-award-winning engineer, Mike Piersante, whose unique sound is the canvas for Lo.

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Events

Upcoming events

Mar 7, 2026

Paula Cole · The Lyric Theatre

Past events

Oct 16, 2025

A Night with Paula Cole & Sophie B Hawkins · Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts

May 22, 2025

Paula Cole · St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

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