Feist on Saturday Night Live This Weekend, at Wex November 18

Rapidly rising star Feist, making her Columbus debut with her band Sunday, November 18 at 8 pm in the Wexner Center’s Mershon Auditorium, is the featured musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend (airing Saturday at 11:30 pm locally on NBC4). Watch for the commercial for the Wexner Center show just after her appearance.

She’ll also be featured this weekend on VH1’s Top 20 Countdown for her video 1234, the same catchy tune (with video excerpt) featured in the Apple iPod nano® ads. Feist’s video for 1234 is #9 this week on Billboard’s Hot VideoClip charts, and has been a constant presence on the iTunes Top Songs chart and the Nielsen SoundScan’s digital songs list since its release.

The November 18 date in Columbus marks her only Ohio stop on a national tour. All tickets are $25 and available now at the Wexner Center Ticket Office (614 292-3535) or Ticketmaster.com.

This soulful and savvy chanteuse and songwriter from Canada has shot up the charts this fall thanks to her onscreen presence in the iPod commercial and the release of her new record The Reminder (which peaked at #16 on Billboard’s album charts), an early favorite among critics for consideration as one of the best of the year. Pop Matters calls it “an exceptional album of stunning musicality,” with Playlouder noting, “The Reminder is thirteen songs that just might make her famous.” Leslie Feist made her solo debut in 2004 with the critically adored album Let it Die.