ARTIST LEGERE

"Phoebe Legere is a transdisciplinary artist. Her multi-format artworks issue from a powerful and intimate internal voice."
~The Brooklyn Rail
Showing posts with label global citizen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global citizen. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Up Here Magazine Feature Hails Phoebe Legere's Climate Change Anthem: 2 PIANOS



Phoebe Legere’s “2 Pianos“ is the planet, talking to you. With its mixed French and English lyrics, the music unfolds as a lament, one where Legere’s voice and piano serve as a conduit for Mother Earth’s grief, longing, and timeless heartbeat. It’s a rare pop moment that feels intimate and cosmically resonant, a chance for you to lean in and feel the weight of our world’s silent cries.


“2 Pianos“ sets a stark but tender scene. Legere’s piano playing is at once precise and touchingly human, imbued with the kind of emotional weight that can make listeners stop and think. The arrangement is relatively spare voice and piano, but this is where Legere’s craftsmanship comes in. The sparseness allows every subtle inFection in her vocals to resonate, giving each chord the space to linger, a heartbeat of the planet itself.



And Legere never let the metronomic sway of her notes seem old. In addition to piano, she performs on accordion, guitar, cello, and an instrument of her own creation, creating textures that suggest both melancholy and hope. Her performance is as much spiritual as technical, deeply human, conveying emotion in ways that seem both personal and universal. The cover art, which maps her face onto the planet, aIirms this intimacy she integrates with the earth.


From Carnegie Hall to CBGB’s, from The Blue Note to Birdland, from The Public Theatre to your faculty lounge, Legere is a consummate accompanist and soloist, and her pale Nre will inspire and enlighten whoever is lucky enough to experience “2 Pianos”. But this song sounds unvarnished in the best sense, as if the songs themselves were live creatures, breathing and reacting in real time. It is tailor-made for playlists searching for dark, melancholic, or climate-oriented, piano-led emotional pieces, and holds its own in today’s pop landscape.



“2 Pianos“ is short, sweet, and weighty and a petite little gem. It’s a song that serves as a haunting reminder of the beauty and fragility of everything in our world, above all, a track that begs you not simply to hear, but to really listen.


Listen to “2 Pianos” now and allow a planet to sing through Phoebe Legere’s standout vision.


Connect with Phoebe Legere on Instagram – @phoebelegere

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THE ARTICLE : https://upheremagazine.com/phoebe-legere-laments-for-earth-with-new-single-2-pianos/

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

PHOEBE LEGERE KICKS OFF HER Blue Canoe TOUR With An Appearance on Good Morning Rochester

Phoebe Legere will be featured on GOOD DAY ROCHESTER today at 8 am, kicking off her BLUE CANOE SUMMER TOUR. 
The Tour follows Phoebe's LOWER EAST SIDE CHILDREN'S CHORUS Standing Room Only Concert at the Theater for The New City on Saturday, April 27.









In Phoebe's own words:

"Thank you to the many neighbors and friends who came to our sold out LOWER EAST SIDE CHILDREN'S CHORUS concert on Saturday afternoon! It has been a magical 9 weeks...



Today I leave for my summer BLUE CANOE tour...of public concerts, house concerts and lectures. Watch for me May 1, Wednesday at 8 AM -- I'll be live on TV - Good Morning Rochester!... and May 2 on WRUR on Open Tunings at 10 AM and that night Live at Abilene ....then on to Marlboro, New York -- May 4 LIVE at the FALCON with Joakim Lartey -May 4 morning..LIVE on Red Hook Radio --  We will miss you dearly! See you in the fall!



Phoebe created the LES Children's Chorus as an Arts Education program under the aegis of her Foundation For New American Art, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit bringing art and music to children everywhere. The Motto is: LET EVERY CHILD SING


Phoebe created the illustrations of bees, frogs, birds, flowers and butterflies for the set. The LET EVERY CHILD SING Concert theme emphasized human rights, climate change and global citizen connectivity.

TUNE IN TODAY AND VISIT http://www.foundationfornewamericanart.org/ to learn more and make a donation! No amount is too small!