Song & Story Swap with guest, Carrie Ferguson

Guest performer for the February 4 Song & Story Swap will be singer-songwriter Carrie Ferguson.

Carrie Ferguson grew up in Arcata on the North Coast of California playing an enormous, third-hand, upright piano. She credits the stubborn and sonorous voice of her childhood instrument, combined with the perpetual fog and exhilarating clamminess of coastal Northern California, as instilling in her the baseline aesthetic of melancholic optimism that still permeates her words and music today.

Carrie started performing her songs in 1990 and has been going non-stop ever since, performing either solo or with her band, The Cherry Street Band. She has opened for Antje Duvekot, Cheryl Wheeler, Anne Heaton, and The Mammals, and has shared festival bills with Melissa Ferrick, Catie Curtis, Toshi Reagan, and The Stone Coyotes.

In 2010 Carrie celebrated the release of her first full-length solo CD, “Riding On the Back of The Wind,” with a sold out show at the Iron Horse Music Hall. The recording is a catchy, exuberant collection of melodic story pop bursting with Ferguson’s trademark joyful melancholy and featuring Pioneer Valley musicians Jim Henry on guitar, mandolin and dobro, J.J. O’Connell on drums, Mark Schwaber on bass, and Emily Breines on violin.

Learn more about Carrie Ferguson at http://carriefergusonmusic.com.

This event is part of the Song and Story Swap, and the theme for this month is
“Animals”.