Mary Fahl

Rachel Efron opens

Friday, 0, , 12:00 am
(doors open at 7:00 pm)

former October Project singer w/ gorgeous, powerful voice

$25 adv / $27 door

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“If a supreme being who equally represents man and woman truly does exist, that voice of God must sound like Mary Fahl,” says the Huffington Post. “Full, deep, dark, mysterious, but one rich, resilient, resounding and capable enough to handle classical rock, folk, pop and Luciano Pavarotti.” The Boston Globetakes a similar view: “Mary Fahl has a voice for the gods.” Why all this invocation of the almighty? It’s because of the voice. Variety has called it “a powerful, beautifully proportioned contralto.” Whatever you call it, and whether you go for God or gods or none of the above, you’ll know it when you hear it – the gorgeous voice of Mary Fahl, powerful, haunting, and full of soul.


Mary, formerly of October Project, grew up in Stony Point, New York, listening to show tunes and British folk. She made two albums with October Project in the mid-1990s, and since then she’s recorded eight solo albums, including her latest studio release, Love and Gravity. Her fans include Anne Rice, who called her voice “supernatural” and asked her to record a song for the audio version of her latest book. Mary currently lives in eastern Pennsylvania in a 17th century house overlooking the Delaware River.

 

Rachel EfronIt isn't long – about three notes will do it – before Bay Area singer-songwriter Rachel Efron hooks you by the heart,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. “To listen to a Rachel Efron song is to be led across an inner landscape at once beautiful, dangerous, serene, and startling,” says AllAboutJazz. “Rachel offers that rare combination of sophisticated musicianship and commanding lyricism. There is a delicacy and astuteness to her perspective on the world, and she possesses that most precious artistic quality of being able to honestly share herself with her listeners.” Rachel was a student at Harvard majoring in Social Anthropology and taking piano lessons from a professor at Berklee College of Music when she wrote her first song. A few years later, when she thought she had enough good ones for an album, she moved to the Bay Area and recorded Say Goodbye, released to terrific reviews in 2006, and 4AM, released to more great reviews in 2008. Last year’s Put Out the Stars, recorded at Berkeley’s Fantasy Studios, has continued the trend – Rachel writes and sings beautiful songs, and listeners love them. “Balancing fragility and strength, introspection and unblinking observation,” says critic Andrew Gilbert, Rachel “sets her lambent, poetically charged lyrics to soft, caressing melodies.” The San Jose Mercury News describes her as “an exceptional singer-songwriter-pianist,” praising her “literate lyrics and haunting melodies” and calling her vocals “genuine, delicate, and deeply moving.”

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