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Phoebe Legere
United States, New York, Under the Waterfall, Maine
Phoebe Legere
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Phoebe Legere

Under the Waterfall, Maine
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About Phoebe Legere

With the release of Heart of Love, Phoebe Legere’s 17th collection of original songs, Legere continues to build on her legendary reputation as an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, storyteller and singer.

Studs Terkel at NPR called Phoebe Legere “an American original” whose “beautiful voice will take your breath away.” -NPR.

Phoebe Legere, from an Acadian/Cajun and Native American family, has been playing Americana with La Famille Legere Band since she was five years old. Her cousin Ray Legere, a bluegrass/acoustic legend joins her on this album.


Legere’s HEART of LOVE album is a paean to the outlaw ecstasy of life on the road. Legere writes songs that are folk-country tall tales. Legere twists grief into humor and counters existential angst with a whoop of joy. Her French-English Cajun Moon begins with Legere singing a chanson about a woman in a hurricane; then she suddenly changes the channel to spin a yarn about riding an alligator while making love and drinking bourbon out of a to-go cup!

Legere’s Native American heritage is the basis for much of her flashing nature imagery: In Blue Canoe Blues we hear her singing in Abenaki, the language of her ancestors. OK Cupid is a song about computer dating with a surprising twist.

Legere, both philosopher and a poet, writes songs that are multivalent Rubik’s cubes of wit, emotion, and wry social commentary. The author of 4 Epic poems, Legere deals with family, romance, disillusion, birth, homecoming and death. On Wrong Honky Tonk Legere plays masterful honky tonk piano throughout, and wields her accordion like a spiritual sword.

Legere’s down to earth Lightening Hopkins-influenced blues guitar playing can be heard on the album. She has surrounded herself with some of the best musicians in the business including Dave Malakowski (Savoy Brown Blues Band), Eric McDonald (Mandolin), Ray Legere (violin) Paul Smitty Smith (Lap Steel Guitar) and Dae Bennett (background vocals.)

Legere’s voice goes easily from a “soprano of winsome sweetness” to a “low down blues growl.”

Legere has performed thousands of shows, from Country Fairs to NPR, from Folk Festivals to the Pow Wow circuit, from Songwriter Circles to a CBS Sunday Morning feature when she won First Runner-Up in “America’s Hottest Accordionist Contest” in Branson, Mi.

She has licensed her songs to HBO, Canal PLUS in France, Island Pictures and RAI UNO. She has been covered by the BBC and CBC in Canada. She’s played with Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, John Hartford, Steve Martin, David Bowie and the Boston Symphony.

The Washington Post raved: “Her voice ranges from a dark and earthy alto to a gorgeous dazzling high soprano… she combines intelligent lyrics and folk, country, and Cajun into a tasty roots-alternative stew.”

The New York Times compared her to “Edith Piaf and Jerry Lee Lewis…Her voice is an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing…”

Where Magazine called Phoebe Legere: “A genius who has it all; brains, beauty and a giving heart.”

BIO

Phoebe Legere is an Acadian and Abenaki multi-disciplinary artist and composer who studied jazz with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Legere studied art at Vassar College and music composition at (expired link) opened for David Bowie on his National Tour, played with John Hartford, Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell and Steve Martin. She was profiled on CBS Sunday morning, Charlie Rose, NBC and ABC. NPR’s Studs Terkel did a one hour feature on her. She starred in many underground cult movies. Her Riotgrrl band, 4 Nurses of the Apocalypse, was a political art advocacy unit in the mid 90's. In 2006 Legere founded the New York Underground Museum. In 2016 she created the Foundation for New American Art, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that helps to educate, nurture and strengthen, the artistic and musical spirit of the children of low-income (expired link) considers political activism and community advocacy to be an integral part of her art practice. Legere invented an instrument for disabled children. In 2013 she built the Shamancycle, a 15 person rideable sculpture and alternative fuel vehicle entirely built from upcycled and repurposed junk. An early Water Rights activist, her Epic poem The Waterclown, set to music, was short listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written 4 political plays with music including Queen of New England about her ancestor, Wampanoag Queen Weetamoo and the New England Native American Holocaust. The play received a NYCSCA award. Legere is also a prolific painter whose works are held in major museums and collections around the world. She plays seven instruments and she has been called “a vocal wizard.” Her new album of original songs, Heart of Love was released Feb. 14, 2017. She will recently signed a record contract with Arctic Records for an all French album which she will record in Montreal in March 2017. She will represent North America at Cannes 2017.

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Total Plays: 9,234

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Followers: 220

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Past Events

Thu

Apr 20

8:00 PM

All Ages
The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts & Cultural Center

United States, Connecticut, MIddletown, 605 Main St , 06457

Fri

May 12

8:00 PM

All Ages
Turning Point

United States, New York, Piermont, New York, 468 Piermont Ave., 10968

Mon

Jun 11

8:00 PM

All Ages
Quinns

United States, New York, Beacon, 330 Main St, 12508

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