A new website to hear and read about Katell Keineg.
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* Music Suggestions *:
Mae Moore.
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (deluxe)
Marisa Monte- Rose & Charcoal. |
Albums and videos:
Tigerlily (CD and Audio DVD) Ophelia (Video, CD)Live in Concert (CD, DVD, Video)
Check a preview of Ophelia video in Real Media.
Ophelia - sounds
and info about this album.
Motherland
House of the Carpenter's Daughter
RETROSPECTIVE: new album
Time Capsule DVD released |
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| LATEST NEWS - October 2009 |
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| MEETING FANS | | FHChildren - For Her Children Yahoogroups - for registered members, forum for discussion. Orkut: invited members can find other fans at this Google service. Meet Up: groups in Chicago, San Diego, Manchester, NYC and Washington promote monthly meetings |
Natalie HEADLINES: news from official source (external link)
Natalie's favorite albums listed at Amazon
October 2009: NEW ALBUM - exciting news spreaded at official website and fan forum about a new coming album. Some songs have been played at benefit concerts this year. No official date of release yet.
October 2009: 17th year of the London Jazz Festival on Friday November 13th, 2009 features Natalie Merchant. Venue, according to local fans, are small and intimate, tickets will be soon sold out.
September 2009: The Shaker Heritage Society of Albany, NY. Concert was held to raise funds for the preservation of the site of the first Shaker settlement
2008-2009 hiatus: Since last year, little was known of Merchant's projects. Few benefit concerts and special recordings were announced at Official site, you can read at link above.
February 2009: Merchant Returns To The Studio After Eight Years.
January 2009: Merchant records duet with Cajun band Michael Doucet & BeauSoleil.
January 2009: Merchant sings for David Byrne’s Imelda Marcos song cycle album.
December 2008: Amnesty International celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with song and video and Merchant adds her voice.
June 2008: Merchant’s version of “Which Side Are You On?” included in an educational CD “Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields.”
June 2008: Merchant is guest soloist for two sold-out concerts with The Boston Pops.
January 2008 LIVE RECORDING? Recent concerts at NYC might be released as a live album. After news that Myth America is bakrupted, but not dead yet, there are no certain clues about this album. But the official discussion community got a post from the bulletin board manager about the rumous of unofficial recordings spreading among fans: "As for any other recordings - Natalie has an issue with unauthorized recordings circulating around the net (or being traded by mail or burned at copying parties or etc.) - especially when those recordings are of unreleased material. She would prefer it did not happen, but realizes there is no real way to stop it. So if you feel you must distribute or support someone distributing unauthorized recordings from the show, realize you do so against Natalie's wishes.". I also believe it won't be possible stopping people from trading these songs... specially after four or five years waiting for something new. These are the same very people who will actually buy a copy of the official album, whenever it gets released, but I will not defend or attack anyone here. Natalie has the rights to protect her artwork.
January 2008 HAPPY NEW YEAR
December 2007 - NEW CONCERT DATES in NYC area. Hiro Ballroom, all standing. January 4, 5, 6, 9 and 10, 2008. Extra date included: 8th January. Tickets are $45
December 2007 - Natalie got her "MySpace" own name back. A lot of discussion has been set about using artist's name at public sites like MySpace. I actually don't know if Merchant got a friendly deal about it but Justice has been grating artists to get their names back. Here what Nat said at MySpace: "This is Natalie Merchant's honest to goodness myspace. If you visited this space anytime before October 2007 you would have seen the work of some clever and busy folks who were maintaining a site at this address. I think in myspace vernacular they would be called "impostors". I thank whoever they were for their efforts but would prefer to keep my name within my own domain. If you would like to find information about my career (past, present or future) please visit my official website at nataliemerchant.com.". A Vacuum cleaner picture was posted.
November 2007 - NEW CONCERT in Boston area
Don't blame me for the lack of updates. We haven't heard news about Ms. Merchant for a long long time. But now a visitor of our website asked to put some info about the Boston event, Give Us the Poor. If you miss the concert, of course you can still learn about this cause and help the homeless people. You will find out you're not the only one who complains about the rent.
The event will feature several artists at The Strand Theater, schedule to November 16th. I've heard Buffalo Tom just joined the team, they are such a good band. You can help a good cause and have excellent music. The concert kicks off two days events dubbed "Boston Helps the Homeless: Awareness to Action" which includes a day of service on Saturday, November 17 at homeless shelters and for homeless people across the city.
>>> link to Tickets
>>>Give Us the Poor CD
>>>Natalie Merchant Website for more news.
ABC's Person of the Week: Natalie will be featured as person of the week for her work at Give Us The Poor on November 16 (date may change). Visit the Website for more information
November 2007 - NEW CONCERTS FOR 2008 - Natalie is planning two new concerts for the next year. First, in New York at the Hiro Ballroom in the Maritime Hotel with new songs. (TBA - schedule for first weeks of January 2008)
The other one will take place in Boston area again, with the Boston Orchestra, and it will feature new songs over there. Quite an interesting duet.
November 2007 - NEW LETTER. Natalie wrote a new letter for fans. She also was finally appointed at NY state arts council board. There was news of her nominee in June early this year by local newspaper Newsday.
January 2007: HAPPY NEW YEAR. Well folks, we are reaching the tenth year online, isn't it awesome? One might be asking if we will offer some goodies for celebration... hmm, I wouldn't say it's out of question, but those interested please drop a line with subject "Anniversary", so we can check out who is reading the site, anyway...
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There is the slight chance that Wikipedia will bury fan websites forever. See, it's a lot easier to find information in one site, you can notice that every Google results point to Wiki. I'm not saying Wiki is a bad thing... Au contraire, mom cherry, Wikipedia will provide more information about our beloved singer! I say that the more the better.
# Visit Natalie Merchant's Topic at Wikipedia.
 December 2006: After reading an excellent article at NYTimes about Katell Keineg, friend and also one of favorite singers of Natalie, I just thought there isn't many sites to read about her, so I did my own.
Visit: # Katell Keineg at NeoHyper
Anyone notice some tracks at Natalie's website, section Buried Treasures? It features a collection of 9 unreleased tracks (I guess), but some of you may have heard them previously on her site:
+ My Sweet Little Baby - donwload link
+ This House Is On Fire (demo) - donwload link
+ St. Judas (live) - donwload link
+ Butcher's Boy - donwload link
+ Hey! Jack Kerouac (live) - donwload link
+ St. Judas (demo) - donwload link
+ I'm Not Gonna Beg (live) - donwload link
+ Golden Boy (demo) - donwload link
+ Missionary's Daughter - donwload link
But if you visit the website, you will be able to see some art along the songs, which is actually previous "Buried treasures" Natalie did for the site. It was done with Chaoskitty, a web designing company that takes care of Natalie's web space.
 December 2006: Natalie is working on a soundtrack for the film Give Us the Poor", a documentary about homelessness in US. Other artists include: Bruce Springsteen, Danny Glover, Jewel, Dan Zanes and Bill Janowitz. There are some news on her recording from Q Division Studios
 December 2006: As you can see, the last news on this site was last year. You can be sure Natalie is busy doing social projects, recording and taking care of her family and we will hear some music soon. Meanwhile, there is a new compilation for New Orleans Relief Project released by Sugarfoot Recordings. The album is called "FOR NEW ORLEANS". More at: News at Natalie's.
 2006: Natalie recorded another soundtrack for the movie "The Killer Within", a documentary from Director Macky Alston about Bechtel, a young man in '50s that claimed he was bullied at school and later got a bunch of guns and shot against students, just as Columbine. One student died. Bechtel was committed to a mental institution and he was released five years later and build a family. "She [Natalie] has recorded a version of the Leonard Cohen song, "Bird On A Wire" for the closing credits of a documentary entitled, "The Killer Within"." - news from her site. The movie was first released at Toronto Festiva last September (2006). (Note: there is a movie called "A killer within" (2004), so beware to not get the wrong movie!!!). Links: IMDB | Toronto Film Festival | CBC
 2006: Another soundtrack: Red, White and Blue. Artists include Natalie Merchant, Ben Folds, Cowboy Junkies, Big Head Todd. More news: Natalie's letter
New album of CHRISTY MOORE, called "Burning Times", features a cover of Motherland. From Natalie's site: "The legendary Irish singer/songwriter has recorded a version of Natalie's song, "Motherland" and included it in his newest album, Burning Times on the Sony BMG label."
Previous old news:
August 2005: New compilation of Natalie Merchant work, due to September. Pre-order available at Amazon and official website (you know the address... ). You may recognize the picture from RollingStone Magazine for the "GenerationNext" special issue RS 695 (November 17, 1994).
Retrospective: The CD will be released by Rhino/Warner Entertainment, so you may expect some great artwork and booklet inside!
March 2005: VH1 StoryTellers DVD out now: incredible concert featuring Ophelia band formation. As all storytellers, this concert features some little remarks of Natalie on few songs as well as a small but happy crowd which makes the presentation a little more "intimate". Most fans already have a copy from TV as it was aired hundreds of times, but that's the reason the DVD added two "bonus" songs, a more complete version of "These are Days" and "life as Sweet" not originally broadcasted on TV.
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