Clare Burson is an American

indie folk Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music. Indie folk hybridizes the acoustic guitar melodies of traditional folk music with contemporary instrumentation. The genre has its ...

singer-songwriter. She has released four albums. Since 2003, Burson has released four studio albums.

Early life and education

Burson was born in

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-mos ...

. She is a classically-trained violinist. After graduating from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, she studied

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and

The Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

in Germany on a

Fulbright Scholarship The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

Music career

Burson's 2010 release ''Silver and Ash'' was released by Rounder Records, and produced by

Tucker Martine Tucker Martine (born January 14, 1972) is an American record producer, musician and composer. In 2010, ''Paste'' Magazine included Martine in their list of the 10 Best Producers of the Decade. Early life Tucker Martine, the son of singer and son ...

. The content of the album is based on Burson's research on her family's life in

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. She won a grant from Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artist to write an album with Jewish themes.

Discography

References

External links

Official website
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Video: Interview with Clare Burson
Living people Singers from Memphis, Tennessee Musicians from Brooklyn Brown University alumni Singers from Nashville, Tennessee American alternative country singers Year of birth missing (living people) Singer-songwriters from New York (state) Singer-songwriters from Tennessee Country musicians from New York (state) Country musicians from Tennessee {{US-singer-songwriter-stub