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Ben Folds: 'Paper Airplane Request' Tour

Ben Folds' Paper Airplane Request Tour is a unique immersive concert format during which the audience is invited to write their favourite Folds song requests on paper, fold them into airplanes, and launch them toward the stage.

The concert includes two halves, separated by a short intermission. In the first half, Folds will perform a standard setlist. In the second half, he’ll perform songs requested via paper airplanes launched onto the stage.

Those attending are encouraged to bring their pre-made paper airplanes to the show, or they are welcome to use paper and pens made available at the merchandise table to make their own paper airplanes on site.

Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation. The Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records.

His latest album features a live orchestral performance of his hits captured just before he stepped down as Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at the Kennedy Center in DC. He currently tours as a pop artist, while also performing with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras. A New York Times Best Selling author, Ben is also working on new compositions for film, tv and theatre.

A long time arts advocate and philanthropist, Ben founded a music education charitable initiative in his native state of North Carolina entitled “Keys For Kids,” which provides funds and keyboards to existing nonprofits that offer free or affordable piano lessons to hundreds of school-age children each year from economically-disadvantaged households. He also advocates for public funding of the arts in schools and communities as a member of Americans For The Arts and the Arts Action Fund.

Setlists

    1. 1.Little Drummer Bolero
    2. 2.Sleepwalking Through Christmas
    3. 3.Christmas Time Rhyme
    4. 4.You Don't Have to Be a Santa Claus (When Christmas Comes Around) (The Mills Brothers cover)
    5. 5.Bizarre Christmas Incident
    6. 6.Lonely Christmas Eve
    7. 7.Picture Window
    8. 8.Me and Maurice
    9. 9.We Could Have This
    10. 10.You to Thank
    11. 11.Brick (Ben Folds Five cover)
    12. 12.Bitch Went Nutz
    13. 13.The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) (Mel Tormé cover)

  2. Encore

    1. 14.Philosophy (Ben Folds Five cover) (Incl Miserlou)
    2. 15.Hava Nagila ([traditional] cover)
    3. 16.Annie Waits
    4. 17.The Luckiest
    5. 18.Army (Ben Folds Five cover)
    6. 19.Christmas Time Is Here (Vince Guaraldi Trio cover)
    1. 1.But Wait, There's More
    2. 2.Capable of Anything
    3. 3.Kristine From the 7th Grade
    4. 4.Still Fighting It
    5. 5.Gracie
    6. 6.You Don't Know Me
    7. 7.Fragile

  2. Intermission

    1. 8.Zak and Sara
    2. 9.We Could Have This (feat. Lindsey Kraft)
    3. 10.Cologne
    4. 11.Still
    5. 12.Landed
    6. 13.[Ben on the importance of the Arts]
    7. 14.Free Coffee
    8. 15.Effington

  3. Encore

    1. 16.The Luckiest
    1. 1.So There
    2. 2.Don't Change Your Plans (Ben Folds Five cover)
    3. 3.The Last Polka (Ben Folds Five cover)
    4. 4.What Matters Most
    5. 5.Mess (Ben Folds Five cover)
    6. 6.Capable of Anything
    7. 7.When We Were Light
    8. 8.Effington
    9. 9.Learn to Live With What You Are
    10. 10.Kristine From the 7th Grade
    11. 11.Annie Waits
    12. 12.We Could Have This
    13. 13.Landed
    14. 14.Zak and Sara
    15. 15.Army (Ben Folds Five cover)

  2. Encore

    1. 16.You Don't Know Me
    2. 17.Rock This Bitch
    3. 18.Philosophy (Ben Folds Five cover)
    1. 1.Still Fighting It
    2. 2.So There
    3. 3.The Ascent of Stan
    4. 4.Sentimental Guy
    5. 5.Capable of Anything
    6. 6.Kristine From the 7th Grade
    7. 7.Don't Change Your Plans (Ben Folds Five cover)
    8. 8.What Matters Most
    9. 9.You Don't Know Me
    10. 10.Exhausting Lover
    11. 11.Not the Same
    12. 12.Just Pretend (The Bens cover)
    13. 13.Zak and Sara
    14. 14.The Luckiest
    15. 15.Brick (Ben Folds Five cover)
    16. 16.Army (Ben Folds Five cover)
    17. 17.Effington
    18. 18.Boxing (Ben Folds Five cover)
    19. 19.Kate (Ben Folds Five cover)
    20. 20.Narcolepsy (Ben Folds Five cover)
    21. 21.Philosophy (Ben Folds Five cover)
    1. 1.Capable of Anything
    2. 2.Me and Maurice
    3. 3.Don't Change Your Plans (Ben Folds Five cover)
    4. 4.The Ascent of Stan
    5. 5.What Matters Most
    6. 6.Kristine From the 7th Grade
    7. 7.Effington
    8. 8.Still Fighting It
    9. 9.We Could Have This
    10. 10.Landed
    11. 11.Jesusland
    12. 12.Kate (Ben Folds Five cover)
    13. 13.Annie Waits
    14. 14.Gracie
    15. 15.You Don't Know Me
    16. 16.The Luckiest

  2. Encore

    1. 17.Army (Ben Folds Five cover)
    2. 18.One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces (Ben Folds Five cover)

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Ben Folds comes to The Helix, Dublin on Saturday 14 November 2026.

Tickets for Ben Folds are on sale Friday 5 December at 10am.

Ben Folds' Paper Airplane Request Tour is a unique immersive concert format during which the audience is invited to write their favourite Folds song requests on paper, fold them into airplanes, and launch them toward the stage.