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ARCHIVE: NEWS
- Dec/01: NATALIE LIVE AT OXYGEN - Up and Close with Natalie Merchant - 21th Dec at 8:00pm

- Nov 13: MOTHERLAND RELEASED.
- Download JUST CAN'T LAST video. Click here (1.9 MB)
- Oct 26: HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATALIE!!! FANS WORLDWIDE LOVE YOU


- Oct/01: MOTHERLAND PAGE OPENED. Hear comments and sound samples.
- September 2001: Motherland pre-sale on CDNow, Amazon and other stores online. Release date: 13th November.

- Oct/01: Natalie sings "Nowhere Man" at John Lennon Tribute. Check the CNN report about the event.

  • Sept/01:LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE: JUST CAN'T LAST - in wma - Windows Media File. Awaited Album Motherland to be released in November.
  • August 2001: News about her new album Motherland - to be released this fall.
  • 2001: HAPPY NEW YEAR, NEW MILLENNIUM AND NEW CENTURY.
  • Dec 2000: 10,000 Maniacs (Natalie Merchant's former band) loses guitar player Robert Buck. Buck, 42, founding member of Maniacs, wrote the music of many famous songs, as These Are Days. He died on 19th December from liver failure at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania.
  • Natalie Merchant will perform at the 2001 Tibet House Benefit (at Carnegie Hall), on 26th February. The lineup includes country singer Emmylou Harris, Moby, Patti Smith and Philip Glass. [CarnegieCharge, 8 AM to 8 PM, 7 days a week, at (212)247-7800]
  • Nov/00: Audio DVD for Tigerlily (1995) released. From Mailing-List: The DVD-Audio version of Tigerlily features 6-Channel Advanced Resolution Audio Surround Sound technology, as well as on-screen lyric sheet, biography, and photos from the Tigerlily session.
    No news between August to October.
  • July: RockFest at House of Blues. Live Broadcast.
  • May/00: news Tour dates
  • February 2000: Movie "Bringing out the Dead" by Martin Scorsese (US release Date: October. Brazil: February) plays These Are Days. The soundtrack doesn't include this song, though it's played in a important piece of movie for one minute. Album includes Clash, REM, the Who, Van Morrison and others.
  • Natalie Merchant, as announced , is in vacation for the next two years, so, no gigs on the way , but some special appearences are not discarded. Also, no recent news about Natalie. All websites on music were checked.
  • January: Happy New Year!!!

    November 99 Due to popular demand "Intimate Portrait : Natalie Merchant will be re run on 17th November (wednesday)
    - On Monday, November 8th at 7 pm east , Lifetime Television will broadcast an "Intimate Portrait : Natalie Merchant". The show is an hour long , which will include fifteen minutes from Natalie's performance at the Neil Simon Theater , from where some of the songs of the new live album were recorded , and also interviews with John Lombardo , Michael Stipe and Peter Asher .
    - Natalie Merchant is releasing her new album and video/dvd on November 9th. The album is called "Natalie Merchant Live in Concert" and the songs are :

  • Wonder , San Andreas Fault , Beloved Wife , Space Oddity , Carnival , Dust Bowl , After the Gold Rush , Gun Shy , Gulf of Araby , Ophelia , Seven Years.
    The songs from the video/dvd are :
  • Life is Sweet ,Ophelia , Wonder , San Andreas Fault , Beloved Wife , Senor Don Gato , Space Oddity , Carnival , Break Your Heart , These Are Days , Gulf of Araby , Waterbound .
    Natalie is finishing her Ophelia Tour , she recently performed at Toronto (10/23th)and Montreal ( 10/24th) . Check a review of her concert at Montreal, Canada.

    She also went to Rosie O'Donnell's talk show on October/28th where she performed David Bowie's "Space Oddity".

    >> The Official Website, www.nataliemerchant.com was updated and it now have more pictures and info. A New biography was written and the site has the so-promised pictures of her childhood (very interesting!). You can also read about the non-profit organizations that Natalie support. News page has a new interview. May/99, 18th - 10,000 Maniacs released their new album. Check our 10,000 Maniacs place - always updated , Amaze me Now.


    May - Tour Dates b>May/99: tour ends in June. Then, Natalie will prepare a Live Album (that may be released on Fall - then, maybe a new album). Meanwhile, her last album, Ophelia is still on Top Album lists, like Billboard (featuring her last single) and CDNow.
    Merchant's priority now is her philanthropy - as she said to CNN.

    May/99: Natalie is not going to Lilith Fair for 1999. Live albums of Lilith Fair were released recently.
    Mar/Feb 99 Tour Dates are taking place all over US
    Feb/99: Natalie on lastest The Chieftains album, Tears of Stone.

    February/99 - Lilith Fair Tour dates postponed to October or November. The third Lilith Fair Tour will take place in Europe, US and Australia - but probably it won't feature Natalie on its main stage list.

    Nettwerk - Sarah McLachlan's label - is compiling a collection of 3 live albums featuring the second year of Lilith Fair. The first two volumes may be released in May. Also, McLachlan will release her own live album this year.

    December/98, 10th - VH1 Hard Rock Live concert footage featuring Natalie Merchant
    December/98, 8th - Ophelia video Release

    December, 6 - Private session for Breast Cancer Research through Radio KLLC (SF)

                      Picture: cortesy of Ken Brown

    December/98, 1st - MTV presents Red+Hot+Rhapsody: interviews and songs. Natalie played But Not for Me
    November - Australian and Asian Tour cancelled due to illness
    November/98, 07th - PBS program "Sessions at West 54th Street"
    October, 27 - VH1's Before They Were Rock Stars Program (Vol. I) features Natalie among other performers
    October/98, 25th plus rebroadcast - VH1 's Storytellers

  • December, 8 - Ophelia Video Release: it contains 1) Interview with Natalie Merchant about each role 2)Images of Natalie speaking different languages (dubbed) 3) Excerpts of Ophelia songs using the different characters 4) Promo videos of Tigerlily (Carnival, Wonder, Jealousy) 5)Promo videos of Ophelia album (Kind&Generous, Break Your Heart)

    1998 Natalie has been on many TV programs, like VH1's Women First #1 (July 27); CNN's World Beat (Aug 2). Lilith Fair Site keeps a page to inform about next programs

    July 98 - Ophelia went gold by the end of the month

    New Radio single is Break Your Heart (though it won't be commercially released). Supporting the single, a video was produced in NYC. Director is Jim McKay (do u remember Direct Effect program?). He worked with R.E.M. and knows Natalie for a long time, but this is the first time they will be working together.

    • Video Ophelia will be released around holidays, according Elektra's Site.

    May 98 Ophelia entered Billboard Charts at number 8 on may, 19th. It's Ophelia's peak, after ten weeks at top 50. "Kind and Generous" video is rolling at VH1.

    Check Ophelia Sounds and Lyrics!!!!! Featuring the latest version of the lyrics (4th June)

  • Lilith Fair: Nat and Sarah         Lilith Fair US tour finished on last 31 August and Natalie did her last concert on 23th August with a closing cake fight and circus performers.

    Now, we may have some European dates as well. First UK and Ireland. Dates to be announced.

    This year's 57-date Lilith Fair kicks off June 19 in Portland, Oregon with Natalie Merchant aboard on the first concert. Joining Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, and other faves from last year's festival are Liz Phair, Natalie Merchant, Erykah Badu, and more than 100 other female musicians .

  • Lilith Fair at Entertainment Weekly Magazine
  • Reports and Reviews on Ophelia
    Natalie on Entertainment Weekly
  • Time
  • Entertainment Weekly
  • Music Central Web
  • Rolling Stone
  • Star-Ledge (NJ) Online
  • Billboard
  • Atlanta journal Constitution
  • Detroit news
  • Buffalo News
  • Details Magazine
  • April/98: Natalie Merchant Shows Support For Hometown Youth Programs (MTV Headlines): "Merchant did not specify the dollar amount of her financial donation, which will help fund programs for pregnant teens at the Boys and Girls Club, as well as the city's YMCA and YWCA. Merchant says she was spurred to pitch in after hearing about how more than a dozen teens from Jamestown were exposed to the AIDS virus by a single person."

  • Natalie appeared on Tibet House Benefit Concert (9 March, NY).
      Reviews:
      From allstarmag news (cortesy of J. Tuason):
      " Later, [Sheryl Crow] dueted with Natalie Merchant on an old American folk song (Merchant's choice) called "When They Ring the Golden Bells," on which Crow got to show off her accordion- playing skills (and they weren't half bad, despite the fact that at the end of the evening she was having so much fun that all her notes were off).
      Merchant, meanwhile, was typically restrained during her allotted time, performing a dark new ballad on piano. (The format moved things along briskly, with artists segueing into and out of their own sets by collaborating with others.)"

      From New York Times (cortesy of " tmt "):
      " American singers turned to gospel, as Sheryl Crow and Natalie Merchant sang a glowing duet on "When They Ring the Golden Bells." Ms. Merchant's solo song, "Thick as Thieves," pondered biblical imagery and "the chaos of millennium "."

       

  • January/Feb/98: new album of Natalie Merchant coming with strings and... (?) more details in her concerts.
  • Jan/98: Natalie Merchant confirmed in Lilithfair along with Erykah Badu, Sinead O'Connor, K's Choice, Indigo Girls and Sarah McLachlan.
  • Natalie Merchant will appear in Tibet House Concert of 98. Tickets go on sale February 9th. Guestlist may include: Natalie Merchant, Philip Glass, Patti Smith, Caetano Veloso, Sheryl Crow, Live's Ed Kowalcyk and Chad Taylor
  • October/Nov 97: Article about Natalie Merchant in Rolling Stone Magazine - Special Issue.
    The Magazine was celebrating it's 30th anniversary on the november/97 issue, and made an special (great )edition of Women of Rock. Check the article with NAM, with picture included.
  • New song available: "Children Go Where I Send Thee" from Album: "Very Special Christmas 3". Featuring also: Tracy Chapman, Blues Traveler, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews Band.
    The album was executive produced by Bobby Shriver, Al Cafaro and Linda Feder. Nat recorded with help from the Metropolitan New Testament Missionary Baptist Church Choir from Albany, New York. She had already worked with this song as a Jam session at 1996 KROQ Acoustic XMas Concert.
  •  
    Aug/97 : Natalie was a special guest at Philip Glass recordings at "Sessions at West 54th" that happened on August 23. She performed a reading of the poem" Planctus" (in latin) set to Glass music . Their work was a way to express her sadness at the potencial loss of the tibetan language.
    Guess who else is on the picture ?
    Planctus video
    Have an idea of their work on this thirty seconds of video in Real Media format.