Heather Masse

Although trained at the brand new England Conservatory of Music being a jazz singer, NY singer/songwriter Heather Masse is similarly versed in a number of American song customs, which affects her more frequent function in folk, pop, and bluegrass. She’s performed at locations all around the globe. Masse, who was raised in rural Maine, could very well be most widely known as an associate from the charting folk group the Wailin’ Jennys. Being a performer, she actually is a observed soloist and a collaborator. She’s been a regular visitor on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie House Partner, in both capacities. On these applications, she’s collaborated with a number of performers including Elvis Costello, Wynton Marsalis, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, and Emmylou Harris. Masse can be celebrated on her behalf performances with modern bluegrass music group the Wayfaring Strangers and Tag O’Connor’s Hot Golf swing. In 2006, she documented an record with Pleasure Kills Sorrow, a modern string music group. She also led the Brooklyn-based collective Heather & the Barbarians for the record Inform Me Tonight. In 2008, Masse released her single debut EP, Many Moons, a assortment of jazz-inspired folk duets with pianist Jed Wilson. Her full-length record Bird Melody was released by Red Home Records the next calendar year. In early 2011, the Wailin’ Jennys released Bright Morning hours Stars; it gained Canadian Juno Award in 2013. That same calendar year saw the discharge of Lock My Center, an record of jazz criteria and originals documented in cooperation with pianist Dick Hyman that acquired a long operate on the jazz graphs. Masse, who lives in New York’s Catskills area, fulfilled jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd throughout a Prairie House Companion functionality. The pair uncovered they were neighbours. Rudd asked her to sing on his Trombone for Fans record released by Sunnyside in 2014. They demonstrated organic collaborators. In 2015, during Rudd’s 80th calendar year, they begun to focus on a documenting project that mixed requirements and originals. These were aided by bassist Tag Helias and guitarist Ralf Sturn. The completed recording, August Love Music, co-credited to Masse and Rudd, premiered by Red Home in the wintertime of 2016.