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Ben Folds Five “Front To Back” Broadcast Today

Last month, PopWreckoning special correspondent Erin K. Staton reported on the Five special reunion show for ’s inaugural “” performance. For the performance, , and took the stage together for the first time in almost a decade to play in the band’s original hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina on September 18, 2008 at the UNC Memorial Hall. The trio played The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner in its entirety (, get it?!) for the concert.

The show is being rebroadcast, starting today, on the Front to Back official MySpace Music profile. You read what Erin had to say, now you can experience the show for yourself.

asks leading artists to perform one of their own seminal albums, from , in a live concert that is then later aired on the site. The inaugural episode features interviews with the original members of Five, along with from Death Cab For Cutie, from Jack’s Mannequin and . The program can be viewed on .com/fronttoback as an uninterrupted hour-long feature or by individual song.

The proceeds from concert went to benefit Operation Smile: Changing Lives One Smile at a Time. For more information, please go to operationsmile.org.

Additional “” performances will be announced by Music in the coming months.

Five: website | Front To Back recap
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