Broward Center. August 25th, 2010. 8:00 p.m.
AEG Live and Broward Center present singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant. Her career spans three decades – as the leader of 10,000 Maniacs and in her own solo work – of making warmly personal music.
In the 1980s, Natalie Merchant led the great folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs. She went solo in the ’90s, and to maintain creative control over her music, she self-funded her debut album, Tigerlily, which had chart-toppers like “Jealousy,” “Carnival” and “Wonder.” She recorded her sophomore album, Ophelia, at her home studio; the album went platinum, and she headlined at Lilith Fair and joined the American Folk Music Tour before releasing Motherland, which paired her rich voice with more strings.
Merchant independently released her 2003 album, The House Carpenter’s Daughter, which veers back toward classic folk; she covers traditional songs such as “House Carpenter” and “Weeping Pilgrim,” an 18th-century hymnal she found in the NY Public Library archives.
Merchant is dedicated to supporting a wide array of nonprofits and social justice groups. For the past five years, she has been researching, writing and recording a collection of songs adapted from the works of classic and contemporary poets called Leave Your Sleep, and it just released April 13th, 2010.
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