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| Phoebe Legere Will Make Your Heart Sing! |
6/28 8pm
The Falcon
1348 Route 9W
Marlboro, NY 12542
PHOEBE LEGERE at THE FALCON
Phoebe “Songbundle” Legere
is a virtuoso piano player who has mastered seven instruments. Phoebe is an
award-winning accordion player, a folk-blues guitar stylist, a powerhouse
vocalist, and an award-winning songwriter.
She brings her musical
style, grace and substance to The Falcon in Marlboro, New York, on June 28.
Legere is an Acadian, and like all Acadians she is métis, a
racial hybrid of Native American and French. Phoebe Legere is passionately
devoted to preserving the folk music traditions of the Acadian ("Cajun"),
Abenaki and Mi'kmaq
people.
As a child, Legere spent summers with her Legere cousins in
Louisiana, speaking French and absorbing the rich and robust traditions of
Cajun country. It was there that Legere began to notice striking parallels
between Cajun music, Early Jazz, and Indigenous Canadian traditional
songs.
The taproot of Jazz and Cajun music goes deep into the soil
of North America. (Jazz was invented by a Cajun whose real name was Ferdinand
Joseph LaMothe…better known as Jelly Roll Morton!) Legere’s show on June
28 reveals the rich, indigenous and spiritual roots of Jazz and Cajun
Music.
Legere and M’ikmaq scholar Pritchard will be presenting some
of their amazing musical discoveries June 28 as part of a new Native
American series called Tribal Harmony at The Falcon.
“I will be playing the
spoons, accordion and the beautiful grand piano at The Falcon while Evan plays
guitar and the Geegumondeedesk, a pre-spoons percussion instrument made from a
single piece of spit ash.
"We both play Native American cedar flutes and we'll be doing songs from my CD Children of the Dawn in addition to some of Les Grandes Chansons françaises. We Native Americans and the French are ancient allies, lovers, comrades and friends! .We'd love to see you June 28, by the waterfall, at the FALCON in Marlboro, NY."
"We both play Native American cedar flutes and we'll be doing songs from my CD Children of the Dawn in addition to some of Les Grandes Chansons françaises. We Native Americans and the French are ancient allies, lovers, comrades and friends! .We'd love to see you June 28, by the waterfall, at the FALCON in Marlboro, NY."
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ABOUT PHOEBE LEGERE:
“Phoebe Legere is the female
Frank Zappa.” ~~ Billboard
“Her voice will take your
breath away.” ~~ NPR
“ Echoes of Edith Piaf.” ~~
The New York Times
PHOEBE
LEGERE fronts a family-friendly ensemble that blends elements of
Acadian, Abenaki, Cajun, jazz, country, folk and blues into a spicy
gumbo. A standard bearer of the Abenaki/Acadian renaissance, Legere
is descended from one of the original Acadian families in North America, she is
a direct desendent of Madockawando, and a Mayflower descendent several times
over.
She is a citizen of
Turtle Island, equally Canadian and American, white and Native. Phoebe Legere
is a walker between worlds.
Phoebe Legere has
released fifteen CDs of original and traditional music. Legere’s
2015 ACADIAN MOON was added to over forty radio stations in
Canada. Her full-length Americana album is called Heart of Love. It shot
to #18 on the National Roots Chart in 2017.
Legere is now recording
in Montreal for the iconic Artic Records label. Legere blurs the lines between
music composition, visual art, performance, community organizing and political
activism.
Legere has appeared on
National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC, NBC, PBS and Charlie
Rose. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and at the
Congrés Mondial Acadien. In 2014 Phoebe, received the prestigious Acker Award
for Excellence in the Arts.
Phoebe Legere is a
community activist and Executive Director of the Foundation for New American
Art, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
FFNA brings music and art
to the children of underserved communities. FFNA is an underwriter of Theater
for the New City's Arts-in-Education afterschool program; FFNA is provides
scholarships to the DelRay Arts Garage's Art in Sound Chorus for low-income
children, provides support, materials and teachers for South Mountain Art Camp
on Ruhe Farm.
For more information
about FFNA's Lower East Side Children's Chorus write to info@foundationfornewamericanart.org
Phoebe Legere plays seven
instruments. She is a virtuoso piano player, an award-winning accordion player,
a folk blues guitar stylist, a powerhouse vocalist, and an award-winning
songwriter. Her recent play SPEED QUEEN at Dixon Place was a triumph.
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