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Natalie Merchant is currently touring across 1 country and has 1 upcoming concert.

The final concert of the tour will be at Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston.

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Natalie has an incredible voice and large number of wonderful compositions but a whole concert with voice and classic guitar only was too flat.

In my opinion it needed another instrument such as fiddle or accordion and alternatively an electric guitar as per original 10.000 maniacs arrangements.

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Nashville Symphony |  James Bagwell , conductor  | Natalie Merchant

The wildly popular , award-winning, and multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter Nata lie Merchant returns to Schermerhorn Symphony Center for the first time since 2011. Merchant joins the Nashville Symphony to perform lush, orchestrated versions of songs from her April 2023 release Keep Your Courage and her timeless hits like “Wonder ,” “ Carnival ,” “ Kind and Generous ,” “O phelia ,” “ Jealousy ,” “ Beloved Wife ,” “ San Andreas Fault ,” “ My Skin ,” “ River ,” and other favorites .  

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Natalie Merchant is a multi-platinum-selling American singer-songwriter and producer known for her distinctive voice and captivating literary-pop songs. She has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Tigerlily and Ophelia , and has received numerous awards and nominations for her work. Her music blends folk, rock, and influences from around the world, and she continues to be regarded as a groundbreaking figure in alternative music. Her newest record, Keep Your Courage (due April 14 via Nonesuch Records), finds Merchant in peak form with songs about love and human connection in its many iterations, sung with a voice that keeps you hanging on every word.

Please note: Due to illness, the previously scheduled September 30 Natalie Merchant concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall has been rescheduled to this date, June 1, 2024. Your tickets for the original September performance will be valid for this new date. No action is needed. For other ticket options, including exchange, account credit, donation, or refund, please contact Audience Services at [email protected] . 

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• Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience
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• Tell Yourself
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Natalie Merchant to play Palladium on May 16

11/29/2022 12AM

Tickets on sale 10 a.m. Friday at TheCenterPresents.org or (317) 843-3800

CARMEL, Ind. – Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant will visit the Center for the Performing Arts in May on a tour supporting her first full album of new material in nearly a decade.

Natalie Merchant's upcoming album is titled Keep Your Courage .

An Evening with Natalie Merchant: Keep Your Courage Tour is set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, at the Palladium.

Tickets starting at $55 will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 2, at the Palladium’s Fifth Third Bank Box Office, online at TheCenterPresents.org and by phone at (317) 843-3800. The concert is part of the Faegre Drinker Encore Series and the 2022-2023 Center Presents Season, presented in partnership with Allied Solutions.

Merchant first gained public attention in the 1980s as front person for the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. In 1995, she launched a solo career with the successful self-produced album Tigerlily , which sold over 5 million copies in the United States alone thanks to Top 40 singles “Carnival,” “Wonder” and “Jealousy.” A series of acclaimed albums followed, starting with the platinum-selling Ophelia in 1998 and continuing with explorations inspired by American and British folk music and literature.

In April, Nonesuch Records will release Keep Your Courage , Merchant’s ninth solo studio album and first of new material since her self-titled release in 2014. The record features lush orchestration, two duets sung with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), contributions from the Celtic folk group Lúnasa and Syrian virtuoso clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and horn arrangements by jazz trombonist Steve Davis.

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National Symphony Orchestra An Evening with Natalie Merchant Keep Your Courage Tour

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Famed singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant, former front person of the folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs, brings her Keep Your Courage tour to the Concert Hall! Come experience her unique, lush sound with selections from her newest album, performed live with the National Symphony Orchestra.

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Famed singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant , former front person of the folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs, brings her Keep Your Courage tour to the Concert Hall! Come experience her unique, lush folk-alternative sound with selections from her newest album, performed live with the National Symphony Orchestra .

Keep Your Courage , Merchant’s ninth solo studio album and first of new material since 2014’s self-titled record, was released in April 2023.

Merchant writes in her album’s liner notes, “The songs contained within this album were written and recorded during the global pandemic that began in the winter of 2019 and is in its fifth wave as I write, in the autumn of 2022. It has been, and continues to be, a period of great flux and fear on every level: global, national, communal, familial, personal. But this is not an album about the coronavirus or the chaos it caused. For the most part, this is an album about the human heart.” She continues. “The word ‘courage’ has its root in the Latin word for heart, cor , and we see it over and over in many languages: le coeur , il cuore , o coração , el corazón . This is a song cycle that maps the journey of a courageous heart.”

Over her forty-year career, Natalie Merchant has attained a place among America’s most respected recording artists. She has earned a reputation for being a songwriter of quality and a captivating stage performer, and has distinguished herself as a social justice and environmental activist. Merchant began her musical career as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the pop music band 10,000 Maniacs and released one platinum, two double-platinum, and one triple-platinum records with the group.

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On tour, Natalie Merchant finds her fans singing along to new songs, original hits

The multi-platinum singer-songwriter who once fronted alt-rock band 10,000 maniacs will perform wednesday in providence with the rhode island philharmonic..

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Oftentimes, when a musician of the stature of multi-platinum singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant releases a new album, concert goers may enjoy the new material, but the tried and true hits from a decades-long career are the ones that often bring them to their feet clamoring for more.

“Kind & Generous,” “Wonder,” and “Carnival” are some of Merchant’s hits that do just that — as do most of the songs from her early days with 10,000 Maniacs, the alt-rock band she fronted from 1981–93.

But during her current tour, on which Merchant is playing numerous songs from her latest release, “Keep Your Courage,” something unusual is happening.

“People have been so accepting of the new material,” said Merchant during a recent phone interview from her home in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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At back-to-back sold-out performances earlier this month at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston, audience members responded enthusiastically to songs from “Keep Your Courage,” singing along and standing up and dancing to the more upbeat tunes.

Merchant, 59, will be in Providence on June 28, backed by the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium. She has performed multiple concerts on the current tour with orchestras, and said her music — especially some of the songs from “Keep Your Courage” — lends itself to a full symphonic orchestra.

“‘Sister Tilly’ and ‘Big Girls’ especially have been transcendent with an orchestra,” she said of two of the 10 numbers on her newest release.

Because the album was made largely during the COVID lockdown, studio capacity was limited, which made for an “unusual” recording process, Merchant recalled.

“We had to put the core band down first, then they would go home and then everyone would test and get ready and come in for the next wave, which was the string quartet … and then we did the woodwinds, then we did the brass … so we never had the opportunity to be in the same room with all of the people playing on the record,” she explained. “I worked with seven arrangers and none of them — except for one — were able to come to the studio when we rehearsed and recorded.”

“It really gave us a chance to analyze the parts as we were putting them down and make sure that they were working together,” she said.

“Keep Your Courage” is Merchant’s first album of original material in nearly a decade. The main theme running through the songs — which she describes collectively as “stylistically eclectic” — is love and human connection. These were recurring subjects for Merchant during the COVID-19 lockdown.

“There was an isolation during the pandemic and a craving to connect with other people,” she said. “I was lucky that I was with my daughter [who is now 19] for the whole lockdown, but we both missed other people.”

While down time during the pandemic helped fuel her creative process, Merchant said she also found inspiration in the wake of a medical scare where she learned that she had a degenerative spinal disease and needed emergency surgery.

“I spent the first couple of months of the lockdown in a kind of compromised situation with a neck brace and not being able to have any follow-up care. And the nerves in my right hand were severely impinged and affected. … I couldn’t make a fist and I couldn’t play the piano,” she recalled. “When I took the neck brace off, I had a lot of trouble with my voice.”

“Regaining the use of my hands, which took months, so that I could play piano again, and being able to sing again, which also took months – when I wasn’t certain I would ever be able to do either again: sing or play the piano – was significant,” Merchant said. “It was scary, but they were obstacles I overcame and there’s something inspirational about that.”

“Inspiration” is a word that is often used by fans when asked about the impact of Merchant’s music.

“I’m appreciative,” she said of her loyal fan base. “A lot of people say that my music helped them through a difficult time, and a lot of people say, ‘My mother listened to you and now I listen to you,’ so maybe there’s a sentimental connection and people feel like I’m a part of their lives. And I know what that feels like, because there are certain artists that I’ve listened to for so long and so deeply that they are integrated in [my life].”

She cited Aretha Franklin, who “feels like an auntie,” and Bob Dylan – who she joked would be a “cranky uncle.”

Merchant, who has an unmistakable voice and emotional delivery, said the fact that her music “isn’t cynical and is pretty earnest” also seems to resonate with fans. “It’s honest,” she said.

As she gets older, Merchant said she is more appreciative of her fans’ unwavering support — and the fact that they make the effort to go to her concerts.

“That’s something I didn’t even think about when I was younger. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re doing a concert and people are here.’ But I didn’t think about the effort that was involved, in part due to the fact that my life was all music,” she said. “But once you have your own family and a house and parents who depend on you or whatever, the amount of time you have to spend [on] something you enjoy — that sliver of the pie graph — gets more and more narrow.”

Merchant said with so many artists on tour right now since pandemic restrictions have been lifted, she realizes, “people are making a decision to spend their time to come see me, and I’m really appreciative.”

She said she also finds it “very validating.”

“I stepped away from [frequent] touring to become a mom and really focused on mothering and being a reliable member of my community, which was my priority and was really important,” Merchant said. “I’m so glad I did it, but it’s very validating to come back after all these years and people are still interested in what you have to say.”

Ever the social justice warrior and political activist, spending much of her time working for environmental causes and youth educational initiatives (she even taught at a Head Start program while on a touring hiatus), Merchant was recently appointed by US Senator Chuck Schumer to serve on the board of trustees of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

“I’ve been down [to Washington, D.C.] four times to meet with people and attended the first board meeting, and I think it’s absolutely fascinating the work they’re doing. It’s mind-boggling,” she said. “They’re not only preserving folk culture, but they’re promoting contemporary forms of folk culture. I’ve really become fascinated by what constitutes folk culture.”

During her six-year appointment, Merchant said she plans to focus in large part on exposing children to folk music — something she has already been doing for years.

“I just feel like a lot of the traditional games and songs have been forgotten. There’s been a threat of that happening probably since radio came about and we became a more interconnected culture, right?” she said. “And a cultural form started to die away and be replaced by mass media. I really feel like children would benefit from knowing more ... so that is something that I would love to do under the auspices of the Library of Congress.”

And while her activism is continuing at full speed, so is Merchant’s passion for her musical pursuits and the connection she is making with her fans on her current 37-city world tour .

She said the feedback she is getting from her audiences (at shows that are nearly always sold out) is “unbelievable” and she thinks that those coming to her orchestral shows — like the upcoming one in Providence — will be surprised at how some of her previously-released songs that are void of symphonic instruments and lush orchestral arrangements “come to life” with a symphony.

“We have a really large repertoire and are excited to share it with people,” she said. “It’s an emotional journey — for me and for them.”

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• Mon 16 Nov London, Conway Hall Natalie Merchant
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