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Heather Maloney w/ LEA
Doors at 7:30 pm
Music at 8 pm
BYOB
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Heather Maloney
"Utterly gorgeous - visceral. - Val Haller, NEW YORK TIMES
"Her not-so-secret weapon is that voice -- pretty but not precious, fully able to launch into aural backflips, but perhaps more affecting when intimately expressive." BOSTON GLOBE
Delicious Really excellent - Graham Nash (CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG)
New England singer-songwriter HEATHER MALONEY launches her first ever multimedia, interactive live concert experience. Heather has written dozens of brand new, unreleased songs over the past year. Join in the immersive audio-visual ProjecTour, where throughout each show the lyrics to each new song will be projected behind her as she plays, as well as a mood-board style vintage art inspired by the stories and characters in the new material. At the end of each show the audience can vote for their favorite songs via the physical "Ballad Box", or by tweeting their favorite songs with the hashtag #HeathersProjecTour . Each vote helps determine what songs will appear on Heather's next full-length LP.
Heather Maloney is a Massachusetts based singer-songwriter and writer-songsinger.
Her latest record Making Me Break was produced by Bill Reynolds (Band of Horses, Avett Brothers, Lissie) and features an all-star backing band including members of Band of Horses (Bill Reynolds, Tyler Ramsey), The Wallflowers, My Morning Jacket, and Darlingside.
Upon the release of Making Me Break, Maloney landed on SPIN Magazines Artist to Watch, with enthusiastic reviews from The Huffington Post, Consequence of Sound, and No Depression. The last song on the record, Nightstand Drawer, became Maloneys first major television song placement on the CBS series Elementary.
As a Signature Sounds artist, Maloney has toured nationally as a headliner as well as in support of acts like Lake Street Dive, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Gary Clark Jr., Colin Hay, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and many more. In 2014 she collaborated with the rising Boston quartet Darlingside on the Woodstock EP, a tribute to the Joni Mitchell-written / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-covered 60s anthem. The cover was featured on the New York Times and garnered attention from Graham Nash himself, who called the performance, Delicious, really excellent.
Raised on a record player instead of a TV, Maloney dug deep into per parents record collections for entertainment, obsessing over the Beatles Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, C.S.N.Y., Bob Dylan, and more. So its no surprise that the folk, pop, and rock greats of the 60s and 70s found their way into her own music. With those influences as a foundation, and a strong dose of 90s radio hits (from women like Fiona Apple, Alanis Morisette, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, and of course, Mariah Carey), Maloney was forming her sound long before she even wrote a single lyric.
According to her mother, her singing career began in the aisles of a Northern New Jersey grocery store, where she developed a reputation for serenading shoppers. The writing would come much later, after spending the first few years of her early 20s in a state of self-proclaimed Musical A.D.D.. After training her voice in classical operatic, improvisational jazz and classical Indian vocal techniques, Maloney was suddenly and overwhelmingly compelled to drop all things musical. To quit making sounds or noise, altogether.
She found herself living at a silent meditation retreat center in Central Massachusetts, where she would practice for almost 3 years, studying and Vipassana Meditation, pouring over Rumi and Rilke, and keeping a journal documenting daily life at her cottage in the woods. It was in this place of quiet that, ironically, she began writing her first songs. Songs largely inspired by her experiences in meditation, including equal parts of the dark / uncomfortable / twisted parts of the human mind, as well as the sparkling and brief moments of that longed-for, ever elusive thing called insight. Maloney said that if she hadnt started writing songs at the meditation center, she would be completely covered in tattoos, because each song is about something I really, really want to remember badly so I wouldnt have to go through it again.
And with the same sudden and overwhelming resolve that led her to the meditation center in the first place, she re-emerged into the music space with a guitar and a few songs that meant something to her. In the years since Maloney has left her life of silence and reflection, she has toured almost constantly, written hundreds of songs, and slept on close to one thousand different pillows.
LEA
A great voice singing great songs. That is the simplest way to introduce you to LEAs music. While she often draws comparisons to other female phenoms like Tracy Chapman, Joni Mitchell and Ani DiFranco, LEAs sound seamlessly blends gospel, jazz, country and R&B into her own style - SoulFolk.
LEA was born in Baltimore to a father who toured the world playing trumpet in the funk band Black Heat and a mother who dreamed of opera while performing with her siblings in the Jones
Family Gospel Singers. LEA was singing on the pulpit of the Baptist church where she grew up as soon she could speak. When she discovered the acoustic guitar as a teenager, she began
teaching herself to play by writing songs. LEAs final year in high school in Germany at a classical conservatory, where she sang with the jazz ensemble Black & White and co-wrote with the British pop trio Indigo Wild.
Having shared the stage with luminaries including Odetta, Mavis Staples, Dar Williams and Anthony Hamilton, LEA performs at a far-ranging array of venues, including arts centers, universities, festivals, and places of worship. She is consistently acknowledged by the Washington Area Music Association* as one of the regions best vocalists, songwriters and recording artists. She is a graduate of the prestigious Artist-in-Residence program at The Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, MD and a beloved children's music performer among DC
families.
LEAs latest recording, the crowd-funded and highly-anticipated Let You In, is a collection of songs the artists hopes will cultivate greater compassion for femininity. LEA's stunning vocals and award winning songwriting are supported by rich instrumentation, featuring Howard Levy (of Bèla Fleck and the Flecktones) on the harmonica.
*Washington Area Music Award Nominations:
Best Contemporary Folk Vocalist - (2012)
Best Contemporary Folk Recording - Promise (2012)
Best Contemporary Folk Recording - Get It Right (2008)
Best Contemporary Folk Recording - Great Big World (2007)
Songwriter of the Year (2008, 2001)
Best Debut Recording - Creation (2001)
Best New Artist (2001)
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AdresseStone Room House Concerts (Afficher)
Seven Corners
Falls Church, VA 22044
United States
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| Non-fumeur : Oui |
| Accessible aux fauteuils roulants : Non |
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