Clare Burson

After releasing 2 full length albums to critical acclaim, indie chanteuse Clare Burson has created her most ambitious project yet, SILVER AND ASH - a song cycle, performance piece, and songbook - one that imagines her grandmother's life in Germany, from her birth in 1919 to her escape in 1938. Thanks to a generous grant from the Six Points Fellowship For Emerging Jewish Artists, Burson has written 10 songs that inhabit and give life to this story as well as Burson's own struggles with rupture, silence, guilt, empathy, and continuity. SILVER AND ASH will be released by Rounder Records in May 2010.