The Heather Pierson Trio will perform at 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 14, at the Vienna Union Hall, 5 Vienna Mountain Road, Vienna.
Pierson is a New Hampshire based singer/songwriter, pianist, song leader, and performer with a passion for cultivating joy, both onstage and off. With a toe in each of the realms of New Orleans jazz, blues, vocal chants, instrumental piano, and folk, her multi-genre songwriting places her firmly in a category all her own, one honed by decades of diligent practice and curious exploration. Heather’s live performances feature her bell-tone vocals, ease at the piano, and are infused with happiness, honest self-reflection, and a genuine desire to connect and share from the heart. In over twenty years on her own record label, she has released fifteen albums and several singles of original music.
Pierson relocated with her parents to rural Maine at the age of five; in Maine her father dug out his old John Thompson piano books and began teaching her how to read music, how to hold her fingers just so on the piano.
“I’ll never forget it,” she recalls. “The very first time I played the piano – a real piano – I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do, every moment that I had the chance to do it.”
These days, her sound is evolving once again with her current trio, with Shawn Nadeau on bass and Craig Bryan on drums, performing her equal-parts-New-Orleans-Oscar-Brubeck piano leanings. This trio performs a rich variety of Heather’s originals, jazz and blues standards, and unique reworkings of familiar classics.
Nadeau (bass, harmony vocals) brings a rock solid thump informed by a wide spectrum of unique rhythmic and melodic sensibilities ranging from rockabilly to reggae to jazz.
Bryan on drums has been performing in New England since 2011. A transplant from New Jersey, he has found a home in Maine. He has had a diverse career spanning all the genres of rock, jazz, pop, classical, reggae, steel band, and a three year stint with Cuban percussionist and singer Roberto Olivero
This trio performs a rich variety of Pierson’s originals, jazz and blues standards, and unique reworkings of familiar classics.
Tickets cost $20 in advance, or $25 at the door. The Union Hall’s online ticket sales vendor is not in service.
For advance tickets contact Alan Williams at 207-293-4321 or email [email protected].
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