Heather Pierson Trio/Kala Farnham
East Rock Concert Series
Friday November 17th,
Best Video, Hamden CT
Doors 6pm - Showtime 7pm
Tickets: $22.50 advance - $25. at Door
Heather Pierson is a pianist, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, songleader, and performer whose inspiring live performances and a growing catalog of releases of Americana, Blues, New Orleans jazz, vocal chants, instrumental piano, and folk. Best known for her ease at the piano and her bell-tone vocals, her songs and musicianship embody joy, honesty, playfulness, and a desire to share one song at the time from the heart. Love, music and gratitude
There was also another source of music and inspiration in Heather’s childhood home – her father’s old Selmer clarinet. There were many nights when Heather would find herself sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of her father as he played along, note for note, with his cherished Pete Fountain and Woody Herman records. Though he certainly could have, he never played professionally. His was a love of the music itself, for its own sake, a deep, undying love that he passed down to his only child. After 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 played the piano – a real piano – I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do, every moment that I had the chance to do it.”
Kala Farnham is a storyteller who draws from a classical and theatrical background, reinventing folk tradition.