Sara Bouchard

Sara Bouchard is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter who also performs with the Americana string band Union Street Preservation Society. She and her band recently performed alongside mandolin virtuoso Andy Statman in a special series of spring 2012 concerts in Manhattan.

Sara has performed solo and with her band at countless venues and art spaces across New York City and the Northeast. Recent event highlights include the CMJ Music Festival, The American Folk Art Museum, The Living Room, Rockwood Music Hall, Sullivan Hall, Union Hall, Jalopy Theatre and PortSide NewYork aboard the Mary A. Whalen tanker. She has given live performances on Washington Heights Free Radio. In 2008 she was selected to participate Williamsburg Live Songwriter Competition.

Sara's forthcoming album, "The News: Monday-Friday," is a futuristic folk tale of migration which she performs on acoustic guitar, mandolin and autoharp. By collaging words and phrases from two Monday-Friday spans of the newspaper, Sara has created a historical account of a future civilization in ten songs. Uprooted from their homeland by a string of natural disasters, a community is forced to journey into the unknown and adapt to their new surroundings. Individual accounts from a series of fictional characters, including a mysterious religious leader, a haughty politician, a mourning mother, and a stranger with bright ideas, are woven together to reveal a common concern: how can we maintain a permanent home when the waters keep rising?

The debut performance of "The News" can be viewed online at http://vimeo.com/album/1959054.

Sara's debut album, "Songs of Lewis & Clark," released in 2008, consists of 17 songs setting the journals of American explorers Lewis and Clark to music. With lyrics taken directly from the journals, the songs reveal moments of awe, reflection, humor and joy during the course of the 1804-1806 expedition through the newly purchased Louisiana territory. Lewis & Clark author Frances Hunter said of the album: "Unlike any music I have heard in years, Bouchard’s approach demands that you stop and listen... [she] sings in such a way as to bring out the drama, poignancy, and poetry of the language." Purchase the 17-song handmade album "Songs of Lewis & Clark" online.