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
Identity Politics
Identity politics is a political approach wherein people of a particular race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background, social class, or other identifying factors develop political agendas that are based upon these i ...
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
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.
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*
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
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