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X-WR-CALDESC:Come on out to the Earlville Opera House on Saturday\, April 1
 3 at 7pm to hear a blend of blues\, jazz and Americana music put on by the
  Heather Pierson Trio! Tickets are $20 for general admission\, $18 for mem
 bers\, $10 for youth 17 and under\, and college students are always half o
 ff general admission! Call us at (315)-691-3550\, or check out www.earlvil
 leoperahouse.com to reserve your seats today!\n\nHeather Pierson is an awa
 rd-winning pianist\, multi-instrumentalist\, singer/songwriter\, and perfo
 rmer whose inspiring live performances and growing catalog of releases del
 ve into Americana\, blues\, New Orleans jazz\, vocal chants\, instrumental
  piano\, and poignant folk. She is best known for her virtuosity at the pi
 ano and her bell-tone vocals\, and her songs and musicianship embody joy\,
  honesty\, and a desire to share from the heart. In twenty years on her ow
 n record label\, Vessel Recordings\, she has released eleven CDs of origin
 al music\, and a new full-length recording is currently in the works and p
 lanned for a mid-2019 release.\n\nBorn to a Scottish émigré mother and Nav
 y veteran machinist father in Joplin\, Missouri\, Heather started out life
  in the single-traffic-light town of Galena\, Kansas. Music was constantly
  spilling out of the speakers of her parents’ stereo – a diverse playlist 
 that included such artists as The Allman Brothers\, Kansas\, Cream\, The B
 eatles\, KISS\, Cat Stevens\, Mario Lanza\, Jose Feliciano and Anne Murray
 . This diversity served to open Heather’s young mind to the rich and varie
 d language of music and to lay the foundation for her future endeavors and
  experimentations.\n\nThere was also another source of music and inspirati
 on in Heather’s childhood home – her father’s old Selmer clarinet. There w
 ere many nights when Heather would find herself sitting Indian-style on th
 e floor in front of her father as he played along\, note for note\, with h
 is cherished Pete Fountain and Woody Herman records. Though he certainly c
 ould have\, he never played professionally. His was a love of the music it
 self\, for its own sake\, a deep\, undying love that he passed down to his
  only child.\n\nAfter Heather relocated with her parents to rural Maine at
  the age of five\, her father dug out his old John Thompson piano books an
 d began teaching her how to read music\, how to hold her fingers just so o
 n the piano. “I’ll never forget it\,” she recalls. “The very first time I 
 played the piano – a real piano – I knew that this was exactly what I want
 ed to do\, every moment that I had the chance to do it.”\n\nAfter many yea
 rs of classical piano lessons\, Heather began her performing career while 
 still in high school\, bringing her training and skills to bear on the art
  and craft of improvisation. With two bands concurrently – prog rockers Ga
 rajh Mahal and the country-leaning North Atlantic Band – Heather’s music c
 areer began with the same diversity and seeming dichotomy that is to this 
 day a trademark of her life. This diversity continued into her early adult
 hood\, performing as a keyboardist\, vocalist\, and percussionist for Sham
 bhala (who once shared the stage with Paul Winter)\, joining and then late
 r directing a choir called the Circle Voice Singers\, being one third of a
 n a cappella trio called Lightsisters\, and all the while\, she regularly 
 sat in with local rock\, blues\, and country bands\, and worked as a sidem
 an for other local singer/songwriters. This period also saw the release of
  several CDs of various forms of Heather’s original New Age music – 1999’s
  Onward & Upward (solo instrumental piano dedicated in memory of her fathe
 r)\; 2000’s a cappella showcaseHonor The Light\; 2001’s vocal chant collec
 tion We All Have A Song\; and 2003’s keyboard/percussion/wordless vocal co
 llaboration with fellow Shambhala member Alfred Lund\, called Between Live
 s.\n\nThe following six years of Heather’s life found her notably absent f
 rom most of what she had been doing. While she played solo piano at a reso
 rt hotel near her new home in North Conway\, NH\, and took on the role of 
 music director at a local UU church\, these years saw much of her creativi
 ty lying dormant within the confines of an abusive relationship\, and she 
 struggled with depression\, particularly following the death of her mother
 . These years were tumultuous\, yet they taught her many important life le
 ssons – and they provided much fodder for reflection\, and for her songwri
 ting.\n\nIn 2010\, Heather reclaimed her life and released her first recor
 d in seven years: Make It Mine\, mastered by Grammy award winning masterin
 g engineer Bob Ludwig. ‘I’m gonna take this life and make it mine\,’ she w
 rote and sang\, and there’s been no stopping her since. She quickly follow
 ed up with several more solo records: her second instrumental piano record
 ing\, The Open Road in 2012\, dedicated to her childhood piano teacher\; t
 he epic song journey The Hard Work of Living in 2013\, which includes her 
 New England Songwriting Contest winning song ‘A Hard Man To Please’\; and 
 the jazz-soaked Motherless Child in 2014.\n\nHeather finally burst upon th
 e national scene in 2015 with her acoustic trio\, teaming up with two musi
 cians that she met in the early days of 2010 when her life was starting ov
 er. The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio features Shawn Nadeau on upright bas
 s and Davy Sturtevant on\, as Heather often puts it from stage\, 'everythi
 ng else' - guitar\, mandolin\, dobro\, fiddle\, cornet. Davy Sturtevant is
  a sideman extraordinaire and an accomplished singer/songwriter of his own
 \, wielding both an arsenal of stringed and brass instruments and a gorgeo
 us tenor voice. With wit and flair\, Davy performs in a way that moves lis
 teners to tap their toes\, nod their heads\, and raise knowing eyebrows. S
 hawn Nadeau is a self-taught phenom who brings an unassuming rock-solid fo
 undation and a keen awareness to every moment of every song\, informed by 
 over two decades of wildly varying musical performances\, from punk rock t
 o reggae to jazz. In their able hands\, these three veteran musicians have
  catapulted Heather's live performances of her deep well of original music
  with intricate instrumental arrangements and stirring three-part vocal ha
 rmonies. The trio’s debut EP\, Still She Will Fly\, was released in May 20
 15\, and its title track was the #2 single on the Folk radio charts for th
 e year in 2015\, and three other songs were also in the Top 100 singles on
  Folk radio in 2015. The trio’s full-length debut\, Singin’\, was released
  in June 2017\, and debuted at #1 on the Folk radio charts.\n\nNowadays\, 
 in addition to her touring schedule with HPAT\, Heather also leads her own
  jazz trio\, with Shawn Nadeau on bass and Craig Bryan on drums\, performi
 ng her equal-parts-New-Orleans-Oscar-Brubeck jazz piano leanings for audie
 nces all over the Northeast. The jazz trio performs a rich variety of Heat
 her's originals\, jazz and blues standards\, and unique reworkings of fami
 liar American music. The three are best known for their annual Charlie Bro
 wn Christmas tour\, wherein they present their interpretations of the work
  of the late great jazz pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi.\n\nIn 2017\, 
 Heather launched her Musical Meditations project\, a growing online librar
 y of improvised piano music for meditation and mindfulness. Every week\, l
 isteners can find at least two or three new pieces available on her websit
 e\, available for free download or for a donation.\n\nIn 2018\, she and si
 nger/songwriter Bernice Martin released a songbook and companion CD\, Hear
 t Songs & Circle Songs\,which has found its way into the repertoire of chu
 rch and hospice choirs all over the world. The songbook contains 37 songs 
 by both women\, including selections from Heather’s catalog of releases an
 d the 20 new songs from the companion CD.\n\nThroughout her colorful caree
 r\, her eclectic skill set continues to propel her onto concert hall stage
 s and into barrooms\, coffeehouses\, resort hotels\, living rooms\, and ch
 urches. Her nearly non-stop performance schedule (with over 200 shows a ye
 ar) speaks of her tireless work ethic and endless devotion to her crafts. 
 Defying genre and classification and yet fully embracing all musical style
 s\, Heather is an artist who speaks the language of music in as many diale
 cts as her abilities will allow. Her life’s work\, she says\, is to share 
 her love of music and her gratitude for life with others – one song\, one 
 heart\, and one mind at a time.\n\nThank you to our show sponsor Preferred
  Mutual Insurance Company\, and special thanks to our hospitality sponsors
  Fred’s Inn of Norwich\, NY and the Poolville Country Store and B&B\, Pool
 ville\, NY. \nNEW: Make it an evening out and receive 10% off dinner at Po
 olville Country Store by presenting your EOH show ticket\, or receive 10% 
 off your show ticket by presenting your Poolville dinner receipt at the Bo
 x Office! Call the Poolville Country Store at 315-691-2677 for dinner rese
 rvations! Show your ticket at the Huff Brau and receive the happy hour dri
 nk rate on your first drink after the show!\n\nSpecial thanks to our hospi
 tality sponsors Fred’s Inn of Norwich\, NY and the Poolville Country Store
  and B&B\, Poolville\, NY.\n\nNEW: Make it an evening out and receive 20% 
 off dinner at Poolville Country Store by presenting your EOH show ticket\,
  or receive 10% off your show ticket by presenting your Poolville dinner r
 eceipt at the Box Office! Call the Poolville Country Store at 315-691-2677
  for dinner reservations!\n\nShow your ticket at the Huff Brau and receive
  the happy hour drink rate on your first drink after the show!\n\nThe Earl
 ville Opera House is located at 18 East Main Street in the quaint Village 
 of Earlville\, NY 13332. Tickets can be purchased online at www.earlvilleo
 perahouse.com\, or by calling (315) 691-3550.\n\nEOH events are made possi
 ble\, in part\, with public funds from the New York State Council on the A
 rts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legis
 lature\, and through the generosity of EOH members.\n\nEvent Cost\n$20 for
  Non-Members\, $18 for Members\, $10 for youth 17 and under\, college stud
 ents half off!
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DESCRIPTION:Come on out to the Earlville Opera House on Saturday\, April 13
  at 7pm to hear a blend of blues\, jazz and Americana music put on by the 
 Heather Pierson Trio! Tickets are $20 for general admission\, $18 for memb
 ers\, $10 for youth 17 and under\, and college students are always half of
 f general admission! Call us at (315)-691-3550\, or check out www.earlvill
 eoperahouse.com to reserve your seats today!\n\nHeather Pierson is an awar
 d-winning pianist\, multi-instrumentalist\, singer/songwriter\, and perfor
 mer whose inspiring live performances and growing catalog of releases delv
 e into Americana\, blues\, New Orleans jazz\, vocal chants\, instrumental 
 piano\, and poignant folk. She is best known for her virtuosity at the pia
 no and her bell-tone vocals\, and her songs and musicianship embody joy\, 
 honesty\, and a desire to share from the heart. In twenty years on her own
  record label\, Vessel Recordings\, she has released eleven CDs of origina
 l music\, and a new full-length recording is currently in the works and pl
 anned for a mid-2019 release.\n\nBorn to a Scottish émigré mother and Navy
  veteran machinist father in Joplin\, Missouri\, Heather started out life 
 in the single-traffic-light town of Galena\, Kansas. Music was constantly 
 spilling out of the speakers of her parents’ stereo – a diverse playlist t
 hat included such artists as The Allman Brothers\, Kansas\, Cream\, The Be
 atles\, KISS\, Cat Stevens\, Mario Lanza\, Jose Feliciano and Anne Murray.
  This diversity served to open Heather’s young mind to the rich and varied
  language of music and to lay the foundation for her future endeavors and 
 experimentations.\n\nThere was also another source of music and inspiratio
 n in Heather’s childhood home – her father’s old Selmer clarinet. There we
 re many nights when Heather would find herself sitting Indian-style on the
  floor in front of her father as he played along\, note for note\, with hi
 s cherished Pete Fountain and Woody Herman records. Though he certainly co
 uld have\, he never played professionally. His was a love of the music its
 elf\, for its own sake\, a deep\, undying love that he passed down to his 
 only child.\n\nAfter Heather relocated with her parents to rural Maine at 
 the age of five\, her father dug out his old John Thompson piano books and
  began teaching her how to read music\, how to hold her fingers just so on
  the piano. “I’ll never forget it\,” she recalls. “The very first time I p
 layed the piano – a real piano – I knew that this was exactly what I wante
 d to do\, every moment that I had the chance to do it.”\n\nAfter many year
 s of classical piano lessons\, Heather began her performing career while s
 till in high school\, bringing her training and skills to bear on the art 
 and craft of improvisation. With two bands concurrently – prog rockers Gar
 ajh Mahal and the country-leaning North Atlantic Band – Heather’s music ca
 reer began with the same diversity and seeming dichotomy that is to this d
 ay a trademark of her life. This diversity continued into her early adulth
 ood\, performing as a keyboardist\, vocalist\, and percussionist for Shamb
 hala (who once shared the stage with Paul Winter)\, joining and then later
  directing a choir called the Circle Voice Singers\, being one third of an
  a cappella trio called Lightsisters\, and all the while\, she regularly s
 at in with local rock\, blues\, and country bands\, and worked as a sidema
 n for other local singer/songwriters. This period also saw the release of 
 several CDs of various forms of Heather’s original New Age music – 1999’s 
 Onward & Upward (solo instrumental piano dedicated in memory of her father
 )\; 2000’s a cappella showcaseHonor The Light\; 2001’s vocal chant collect
 ion We All Have A Song\; and 2003’s keyboard/percussion/wordless vocal col
 laboration with fellow Shambhala member Alfred Lund\, called Between Lives
 .\n\nThe following six years of Heather’s life found her notably absent fr
 om most of what she had been doing. While she played solo piano at a resor
 t hotel near her new home in North Conway\, NH\, and took on the role of m
 usic director at a local UU church\, these years saw much of her creativit
 y lying dormant within the confines of an abusive relationship\, and she s
 truggled with depression\, particularly following the death of her mother.
  These years were tumultuous\, yet they taught her many important life les
 sons – and they provided much fodder for reflection\, and for her songwrit
 ing.\n\nIn 2010\, Heather reclaimed her life and released her first record
  in seven years: Make It Mine\, mastered by Grammy award winning mastering
  engineer Bob Ludwig. ‘I’m gonna take this life and make it mine\,’ she wr
 ote and sang\, and there’s been no stopping her since. She quickly followe
 d up with several more solo records: her second instrumental piano recordi
 ng\, The Open Road in 2012\, dedicated to her childhood piano teacher\; th
 e epic song journey The Hard Work of Living in 2013\, which includes her N
 ew England Songwriting Contest winning song ‘A Hard Man To Please’\; and t
 he jazz-soaked Motherless Child in 2014.\n\nHeather finally burst upon the
  national scene in 2015 with her acoustic trio\, teaming up with two music
 ians that she met in the early days of 2010 when her life was starting ove
 r. The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio features Shawn Nadeau on upright bass
  and Davy Sturtevant on\, as Heather often puts it from stage\, 'everythin
 g else' - guitar\, mandolin\, dobro\, fiddle\, cornet. Davy Sturtevant is 
 a sideman extraordinaire and an accomplished singer/songwriter of his own\
 , wielding both an arsenal of stringed and brass instruments and a gorgeou
 s tenor voice. With wit and flair\, Davy performs in a way that moves list
 eners to tap their toes\, nod their heads\, and raise knowing eyebrows. Sh
 awn Nadeau is a self-taught phenom who brings an unassuming rock-solid fou
 ndation and a keen awareness to every moment of every song\, informed by o
 ver two decades of wildly varying musical performances\, from punk rock to
  reggae to jazz. In their able hands\, these three veteran musicians have 
 catapulted Heather's live performances of her deep well of original music 
 with intricate instrumental arrangements and stirring three-part vocal har
 monies. The trio’s debut EP\, Still She Will Fly\, was released in May 201
 5\, and its title track was the #2 single on the Folk radio charts for the
  year in 2015\, and three other songs were also in the Top 100 singles on 
 Folk radio in 2015. The trio’s full-length debut\, Singin’\, was released 
 in June 2017\, and debuted at #1 on the Folk radio charts.\n\nNowadays\, i
 n addition to her touring schedule with HPAT\, Heather also leads her own 
 jazz trio\, with Shawn Nadeau on bass and Craig Bryan on drums\, performin
 g her equal-parts-New-Orleans-Oscar-Brubeck jazz piano leanings for audien
 ces all over the Northeast. The jazz trio performs a rich variety of Heath
 er's originals\, jazz and blues standards\, and unique reworkings of famil
 iar American music. The three are best known for their annual Charlie Brow
 n Christmas tour\, wherein they present their interpretations of the work 
 of the late great jazz pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi.\n\nIn 2017\, H
 eather launched her Musical Meditations project\, a growing online library
  of improvised piano music for meditation and mindfulness. Every week\, li
 steners can find at least two or three new pieces available on her website
 \, available for free download or for a donation.\n\nIn 2018\, she and sin
 ger/songwriter Bernice Martin released a songbook and companion CD\, Heart
  Songs & Circle Songs\,which has found its way into the repertoire of chur
 ch and hospice choirs all over the world. The songbook contains 37 songs b
 y both women\, including selections from Heather’s catalog of releases and
  the 20 new songs from the companion CD.\n\nThroughout her colorful career
 \, her eclectic skill set continues to propel her onto concert hall stages
  and into barrooms\, coffeehouses\, resort hotels\, living rooms\, and chu
 rches. Her nearly non-stop performance schedule (with over 200 shows a yea
 r) speaks of her tireless work ethic and endless devotion to her crafts. D
 efying genre and classification and yet fully embracing all musical styles
 \, Heather is an artist who speaks the language of music in as many dialec
 ts as her abilities will allow. Her life’s work\, she says\, is to share h
 er love of music and her gratitude for life with others – one song\, one h
 eart\, and one mind at a time.\n\nThank you to our show sponsor Preferred 
 Mutual Insurance Company\, and special thanks to our hospitality sponsors 
 Fred’s Inn of Norwich\, NY and the Poolville Country Store and B&B\, Poolv
 ille\, NY. \nNEW: Make it an evening out and receive 10% off dinner at Poo
 lville Country Store by presenting your EOH show ticket\, or receive 10% o
 ff your show ticket by presenting your Poolville dinner receipt at the Box
  Office! Call the Poolville Country Store at 315-691-2677 for dinner reser
 vations! Show your ticket at the Huff Brau and receive the happy hour drin
 k rate on your first drink after the show!\n\nSpecial thanks to our hospit
 ality sponsors Fred’s Inn of Norwich\, NY and the Poolville Country Store 
 and B&B\, Poolville\, NY.\n\nNEW: Make it an evening out and receive 20% o
 ff dinner at Poolville Country Store by presenting your EOH show ticket\, 
 or receive 10% off your show ticket by presenting your Poolville dinner re
 ceipt at the Box Office! Call the Poolville Country Store at 315-691-2677 
 for dinner reservations!\n\nShow your ticket at the Huff Brau and receive 
 the happy hour drink rate on your first drink after the show!\n\nThe Earlv
 ille Opera House is located at 18 East Main Street in the quaint Village o
 f Earlville\, NY 13332. Tickets can be purchased online at www.earlvilleop
 erahouse.com\, or by calling (315) 691-3550.\n\nEOH events are made possib
 le\, in part\, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Ar
 ts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legisl
 ature\, and through the generosity of EOH members.\n\nEvent Cost\n$20 for 
 Non-Members\, $18 for Members\, $10 for youth 17 and under\, college stude
 nts half off!
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LOCATION:18 East Main St Earlvill NY
SUMMARY:Heather Pierson Trio at EOH
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