Natalia Zukerman
New York City, New York, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2014 | INDIE
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The bluesy folk-rock tunes, burnished croon (and) serious guitar chops of Massachusetts singer Natalia Zukerman demand your attention. - Time Out New York
Hard work and long hours on the road are paying off for slide guitarist/singer Natalia Zukerman. Playing close to 200 solo shows a year is a good way to expand an audience, but possessing a playing style and singing voice as pure as Zukerman's sure doesn't hurt either. - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Natalia Zukerman, comes from a family of noted classical musicians (her mother, Eugenia, is a flutist; her father, Pinchas, is a violinist; and her sister, Arianna, is an opera singer), but she has chosen to forsake grand performance halls for a dusty resophonic slide guitar in small clubs. She has nimble fingers capable of picking upward of thirty notes per measure, and when she sings she can switch from scat to swoon in the course of a glissando. - The New Yorker
I knew from the first track that this was a gem. On first listen, I didn't even take notes. I just sat back and let Zukerman's spunky, dreamy, jazzy rock jam take over my apartment. The musicians scatted, they strummed, they broke into wild bluegrass interludes. I've never had houseguests like these. I think the standup bass player left the smoldering remains of a cigarette in one of my coffee mugs. - Indie-music.com
Smokey-voiced songstress wisely mixes the rootsy styles on her fresh and fine Willy Porter-produced "Brand New Frame" album - from torch blues to country swing - to broaden reach and constituency. If you're a fan of Madeleine Peyroux, Bonnie Raitt or even Amy Winehouse, you'll find stuff to connect with here. - Philadelphia Daily News
Zukerman released Brand New Frame in May, and it's a warm collection of mild folk rock, pitched somewhere between the delicate perfection of Jenny Lewis and the visceral soul of Joan Osborne. - River Cities' Reader
Bio
Natalia Zukerman is nothing if not versatile. In addition to performing her own shows of original music, over the years Zukerman has played lap steel, bass and/or guitar alongside Janis Ian, Susan Werner and Willy Porter, toured collaboratively with fellow artists Garrison Starr, Louise Taylor, Erin McKeown, Sam Baker and John Fullbright, with her art.is.song art and music project comrade AG(Adrianne Gonzlez), with percussionist and vocalist Mona Tavakoli (Jason Mraz, Raining Jane) and with her annual holiday group Winterbloom (Antje Duvekot, Anne Heaton, Meg Hutchinson). Her collaborative nature was captured on her critically acclaimed double live album Gypsies & Clowns that was recorded in Evaston, IL in September of 2012. She is currently at work on her seventh solo record, to be released in 2014 on Weasel Records.
VIDEOS OF LIVE PERFORMANCE
* making of "Gypsies & Clowns: Natalia Zukerman and Friends Live at SPACE" - http://youtu.be/rYQs-4zsS0M
* accompanied by Willy Porter at WCL "Brand New Frame" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44MqEC_Qni8
* opening for Ani Difranco in Iowa "The Right Time" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6msEhGkT6UM
* duet with Catie Curtis at Joe's Pub "Hello Stranger" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SnRuHKsIG4
* solo at Jammin Java "Come As You Are" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CoqhjEMdJw
* solo in La Grange "Better Me" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC4W8eX_gVM
* solo at Ottawa Blues Fest "Haunted House" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFD8__twTfg
ABOUT GYPSIES & CLOWNS
On September 14th, 2012, Natalia Zukerman took the stage at SPACE in Evanston, IL alongside a lifetimes worth of collaborators and an arsenal of instruments. Over the following 2 hours, the room swelled with chemistry and charisma as some of the finest singer/songwriters and musicians in todays scene came together for the live recording of Natalias latest record Gypsies & Clowns: Natalia Zukerman and Friends Live at SPACE.
a celebration of musical community
alluring and impossible to resist.
- Seth Rogovoy, author, Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet
Guests include: AG, Edie Carey, Trina Hamlin, Anne Heaton, Erin McKeown, Willy Porter, Garrison Starr, Mona Tavakoli, and Susan Werner.
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