Over her 28-year career Natalie Merchant has earned a place among America’s most respected recording artists with a reputation for being a songwriter of quality and a captivating performer. Merchant began her musical career as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the pop music band 10,000 Maniacs and released two platinum and four gold records with the group. She has collaborated both on stage and in the studio with a wide range of artists including REM, Wynton Marsalis, The Chieftains, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Philip Glass and Tracy Chapman, to name a few.

After the birth of her daughter in 2003 Merchant took an extended break from recording and touring.  For the past six years Merchant has been researching, writing and recording a collection of songs adapted from the works of various classic and contemporary poets.  This project, entitled Leave Your Sleep, is her first studio album in seven years and was recently released on Nonesuch Records. The new album has received critical acclaim with Entertainment Weekly praising its “gorgeous arrangements of dreamy chamber folk,” The Daily Beast calling it “soothing and electric,” and the BBC citing it’s “sheer ravishing beauty.”

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