New Members
Claudia Schmidt
10-20-2018 (Ballroom)
Michigan native Claudia Schmidt has toured North America as well as Europe in venues ranging from intimate clubs to 4,000 seat theatres, and festival stages in front of 25,000 rapt listeners. She has recorded 22 albums of mostly original songs, exploring folk, blues, and jazz idioms featuring her acclaimed 12-string guitar and mountain dulcimer playing.
Schmidt weaves her way through her concert in much the same manner as a jester. Interwoven anecdotes, revealing her past and present. Her concerts are an endless display of self-realization through humor and longing, leaving audience members yearning to become an integral part of her world. She has that rare ability to remain fresh and enjoy her talent to entertain as much as the audience enjoys being entertained.
Her new CD “Hark the Dark” is her 22nd recording in a career spanning almost 45 years of composing and performing. She takes a thematic turn here, offering an homage to the oft-maligned season of winter. Along with her extraordinary voice, dulcimer and deluxe pianolin, she is accompanied brilliantly by pianist Miro Sprague, bassist Marty Jaffe, drummer Conor Meehan and pianist/accordionist Chris Haynes. Doing what she most loves, Claudia weaves genres, moods and textures in a seamless journey from beginning to end and back around. This disc is best enjoyed as a sit-down musical meditation. Old school. Long-playing. After all, it's about WINTER! Claudia has never sounded better nor sung with more passion and pleasure.
Date and Time
Saturday Oct 20, 2018