New York-based singer song-maker Heather Masse, is a member of the acclaimed Juno-award winning Canadian band “The Wailin' Jennys,” and has performed at 100s of venues across Europe, Canada, and the states. She has appeared regularly on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, where she was privileged to share the stage with Wynton Marsalis, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Arlo Guthrie and Tom Rush. She has performed with the bluegrass band "The Wayfaring Strangers” on NPR's World Cafe, and at Boston's Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Heather also performs locally with a Brooklyn-based collaboration, “Heather & the Barbarians.” She recently released “Many Moons” an E.P. of jazz-inspired folk duets with pianist Jed Wilson. Heather grew up in rural Maine and began singing at an early age. Having taken a degree in Jazz Voice from the New England Conservatory of Music, Heather is steeped in the jazz tradition, which informs her distinct approach to singing music of all sorts.Heather’s rich, soulful, voice elegantly moves through numerous styles organically and with sincerity- a quality learned from some of her early influences disparate as Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, and Chet Baker. Heather’s newest project, The Heather Masse Band will release a full-length album on November 10th, 2009 of Heather’s original songs and music on Red House Records.
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