Altsounds - NATALIE MERCHANT announces new album and UK performances

Natalie Merchant will give her first UK performance in over seven years on Monday November 16 at Conway Hall in London. The date – an evening with Natalie Merchant – will showcase material from her forthcoming Nonesuch album release, as well as selections from her celebrated 28-year career. Tickets are on sale now.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 An evening with Natalie Merchant
Conway Hall, London
25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 (Tube: Holborn)
CONWAY HALL Welcome
Doors: 7.00pm | Performance: 8.00pm
Tickets: £25 from 0844 576 5483 and Concert Tickets and Tour Dates | Live Nation Live Nation UK
All tickets subject to booking fee

On Friday November 13 Natalie Merchant will also participate in the gala concert at the Barbican that marks the opening of this year’s London Jazz Festival, performing with Guy Barker and the London Jazz Festival Orchestra. On Thursday January 28 she will appear at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall as part of 2010 Celtic Connections.

The new album is due for release in Spring 2010. It will be Natalie Merchant’s first new studio recording in seven years and her first for Nonesuch Records.

Throughout her career Natalie Merchant has had tremendous popular and critical success. She has earned a place among America’s most respected recording artists with a reputation for being a songwriter of quality and a captivating performer. Q has called her ‘Among the most compelling and distinctive voices of the last decade,’ while Vogue has said she is ‘One of the most successful and enduring alternative artists to emerge from the eighties - intact and uncompromised.’

Merchant began her musical career in 1981 as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the multi-platinum band 10,000 Maniacs. In 1994 she began her solo career with a self-produced debut album, Tigerlily (1995), which sold more than four million copies. In the years following, she released Ophelia (1998), Natalie Merchant Live (1999) and Motherland (2001). In 2003, after 18 years, she left Elektra Records and independently released an album of traditional and contemporary folk music, The House Carpenter’s Daughter, on her own label, Myth America Records. In 2005 she curated a collection of her own work for a double album entitled Retrospective.

Merchant has collaborated both on stage and in the studio with a wide range of artists: REM, Wynton Marsalis, The Chieftains, Mavis Staples, Daniel Lanois, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, David Byrne, Philip Glass, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Tracy Chapman, Cowboy Junkies, Ryan Adams, Lokua Kanza, Yungchen Lhamo, The Fairfield Four, Gavin Bryars, Jakob Dylan, Susan McKeown, Chris Botti, Lúnasa, The Klezmatics, Katell Keineg, Dan Zanes and Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Throughout her entire career Merchant has been dedicated to supporting a wide array of non-profit organizations lending both financial support and raising public awareness. She was recently appointed by the governor of New York to serve a five-year term as a member of the prestigious New York State Council on the Arts.

Further details about the forthcoming album and international tour dates will be announced shortly.

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