eTown Presents an evening with Benmont Tench
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Saturday, Oct 17, 2026 7pm - 9:30pm
Location
eTown
1535 Spruce St
Details
Benmont Tench is a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and one of contemporary music’s finest organ players, piano players, anything-with-keys players. In addition to all of the Heartbreakers recordings, Benmont has played on records by Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson, Green Day, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, the Dixie Chicks, the Replacements, John Prine, Waylon Jennings, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, just to name a few. Jimmy Iovine, man of many hats and former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ producer, puts it this way: “If you want a track to sound better, you just put Benmont’s part higher in the mix.”
His second solo LP The Melancholy Season was released in 2024 on Dark Horse Records. The Melancholy Season is his true arrival as a singer-songwriter, without compromise or doubt. It was produced by Jonathan Wilson, an acclaimed singer-songwriter and touring guitarist for Roger Waters who has worked on career-defining albums for Dawes, Father John Misty and Margo Price, with an attention to the space and intimacy where the best songs breathe and resonate.
