Jennifer Greer will host a CD Release Party tomorrow night at The Lilypad Inman at 1353 Camb Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts at 8:00 p.m. July 11, 2015. If you know Greer, or if you’ve heard her latest album Hey Tide, or if you’ve heard any of her CDS, you know she’s a special artist with a special sound. Lively music with emphasis on tones is her specialty and each of her songs come to three dimensional life.
Jennifer Greer is a self-taught, detail-obsessed singer/songwriter/pianist who has been singing since she was a little girl. Growing up in a suburb near New York City, poetry was her first love and artistic medium. She wrote steadily throughout high school and college, had several poems published, and won the National Collegiate Poetry Award her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Shortly after graduating college, a strange thing happened; she began to stop hearing words and instead began to hear melodies. She had played piano for a year or so as a little girl, so there was some sense of a thread, however tiny.
For 2 years Jennifer wrote instrumental piano music of an impressionistic kind. Then, having always been a singer, began to write songs. Her songwriting career was launched, and Jennifer never looked back. She started playing her new songs live, in New York City and upstate N.Y. That first year she won the open mic award at the legendary Towne Crier Café, and played with fellow singer/songwriters Anne Heaton, Edie Carey, Mieka Pauly, Meg Hutchinson, and others.
Needing a change from New York, Jennifer moved to Northampton, MA in 2000, formed a trio, and began performing locally and throughout New England. There she won the WRSI singer/songwriter competition. In 2005 she moved to Cambridge, MA where she has been living and performing for the past 5 years. Jennifer’s distinctive voice—which soars from earthy and sensual to sweetly lush— was showcased in her last album “The Apiary,” which critics called ‘stunning’. “The Apiary” won Best Adult Alternative CD 2005 from the Muse’s Muse and Best unsigned pop artist from Verbicide Magazine in 2008.
Jennifer’s songs run from aggressive to impressionistic. She seeks to push the boundaries of pop, by blending jazz, funk and classical. Her songs are often about outer rather than inner subjects, such as stories in the news, characters from books, as well as intimate personal experience. Getting bored with herself easily, she pushes herself and her band to be exciting and refreshing. As a performer, she exudes passion and joy that are tangible, shameless, and direct. In 2007 she co-ran a music series at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, called the Indie Music Collective.
Jennifer had released her third, very ambitious album, “Fistful of Stars” in February 2010. A sweeping collection of 14 songs, the album showcases Jennifer’s writing at her highest. In these utterly unique songs, her extraordinary voice and passionate piano captivate the heart and mind.
Yet, her new CD, Hey Tide, is causing even greater sensations throughout the greater-Boston/New England music scene since its release a few months ago. Catch her in Boston before she goes the way of Amee Mann, Godsmack, and Lake Street Dive.
“I consider myself a miner. By doing so, I seek to illuminate the humanity of others. I feel that is my job—to be a mirror for other people to think and reflect, feel joy and have understanding over what is in their own lives and imagination” Greer said.
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