NATALIE MERCHANT & THE PURCHASE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Singer, songwriter, star (her Leave Your Sleep debuted at #17 on the Billboard chart), Natalie Merchant’s 30-year career has propelled her to a distinguished place among America’s most respected recording artists. Having achieved great acclaim and fame first as the lead singer for 10,000 Maniacs and then as a solo artist, she is now embarking on a new artistic path: creating songs to be performed with orchestras. The “PSO” she’ll be performing with is none other than the Purchase Symphony Orchestra, made up entirely of students from our Conservatory of Music: a coup for them, for us, and for our audiences.