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Clare Burson & Anne Heaton

Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim

June 16, 2009

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"[Burson's] is a knowing voice, world-weary like Lucinda Williams, expressive like Kathleen Edwards, mysterious like Jolie Hollands". - Fred Mills, Harp Magazine, Sept./ Oct. 2007 After releasing 2 full length albums to critical acclaim, indie chanteuse Clare Burson has created her most ambitious project yet - a song cycle, performance piece, and a songbook - one that imagines her grandmother's life in Germany, from her birth in 1919 to her escape in 1938. Thanks to a generous grant from the Six Points Fellowship For Emerging Jewish Artists, Burson has written 10 songs that inhabit and give life to this story as well as Burson's own struggles with rupture, silence, guilt, empathy, and continuity. The album, entitled SILVER AND ASH and produced by Grammy nominated Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Laura Veirs, Bill Frisell), is inspired by a desire for melodic minimalism, evocative imagery and subtle metaphor. From the first track to the last, distant pianos, jarring Telecasters, vintage acoustic guitars, Burson's own lush string arrangements and rich vocals - at times wistful, at times full of desperation, but at all times direct - come together to fill the 10 songs on SILVER AND ASH with nostalgia and longing. In a live setting, the SILVER AND ASH song cycle is transformed into a performance piece that tells a coming of age story spanning centuries and continents. The performance is accompanied by a songbook, chronicling Burson's creative process.

www.clareburson.com

Boston-based singer-songwriter/piano-player Anne Heaton released her thoughtful and delicate new collection of music, Blazing Red, this past March. The critically acclaimed artist returned to the studio after years of touring to put together her third album with co-producer Gary Maurer (of HEM). Recorded mostly live-in-the-studio, Heaton's new record maps personal themes with organic vocals, pop melodies and piano-led arrangements. Heaton expresses feelings of loss and connection, from the desire to, one day, be a good mom, to letting go of past relationships. The music is at times lush and whimsical -- Heaton is often backed by a string quartet- and alternately intimate, she sings and plays piano only. What is created is a soulful record that gently urges the listener to both take risks and take comfort.

www.anneheaton.com