New York folk rock singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant is a celebrated solo artist and the one-time voice of 10,000 Maniacs, who has also adapted 19th and 20th century British and American poetry into new songs, as always writing socially conscious and intelligent lyrics.
Working with hundreds of musicians from the varied worlds of, among other things, Cajun, country, jazz, chamber music, R&B, Celtic, and reggae, her work is eclectic and has consistently enjoyed equal measures of commercial and critical success.
