Two women with big voices making large waves in the music world, one from Israel via Paris and New York, the other from Minnesota via Tennessee and Montana, converging on The Cedar for a magical night of songs that straddle landscapes both cosmopolitan and rural, exotic and down-home, emotional and earthy.
Keren Ann is a recording artist/singer/songwriter/producer based largely in Paris, New York and Israel. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet and engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements. In 2000 she began her solo career with La Biographie de Luka Philipsen — written with and produced by Benjamin Biolay, who also co-wrote and produced its follow-up, La Disparation (in return, she helped write his debut album, Rose Kennedy). The pair also wrote several songs for Henri Salvador's best-selling, prize-winning 2000 comeback album, Chambre avec Vue, including the hit "Jardin d'Hiver". Her third album Not Going Anywhere was released worldwide 2003, but her American breakthrough came with its follow-up, Nolita (2004). Recorded in Paris and New York — it is named for Nolita, her neighborhood in lower Manhattan — it is sung half in French and half in English Keren Ann's fifth solo album, the eponymous Keren Ann, will be released April 23rd, 2007 in Europe, and May 8, 2007 in the United States.
Martha Scanlan, former vocalist for innovative old-time stringband Reeltime Travelers, has struck out on her own with her hot new Sugar Hill release The West Was Burning. Earthy songs delivered in her distinctive, rootsy voice make Martha's a name to watch!
"Martha Scanlan's cracked and
quavering voice is a taste that, once acquired, is nigh on impossible
to satiate. It's completely addictive."- Utne Reader
