Carrie Newcomer to perform at First Christian Church Saturday

Carrie Newcomer will be in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at First Christian Church, 210 North Fifth Street in Ponca City.

Tickets are $15 at First Christian Church or at brownpapertickets.com.

Proceeds will benefit Friendship Feast, a free hot meal program which feeds needy people in Ponca City and surrounding communities. An evening meal is served from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday each week.

Carrie Newcomer is a songwriter, recording artist, performer and educator. She has been described as a “soaring songstress” by Billboard and a “prairie mystic” by the Boston Globe. The Austin Statesman described her as having “a voice as rich as Godiva chocolate” and Rolling Stone once said, she “asks all the right questions.”

Her latest CD, “The Beautiful Not Yet,” was released in September 2016.