M. Ward
w/ Savoir Faire
Tuesday, July 30
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
All ages / Seated
$27 Member / $30 General Admission Advance/ $35 GA Day of Show
***This show is now fully seated.***
The renowned singer/songwriter M. Ward is announcing the new studio album ‘Supernatural Thing.' His songs “luxuriate in a dream world conjured out of memories, shared stories, and flights of fancy,” Pitchfork says, and the album’s title track also lives in a liminal space in which Elvis comes to him with a message: You Can Go Anywhere You Please.
“Well, all my songs depend on dream-imagery to some extent,” Ward explained, “and this was an actual dream I had about Elvis, when he came to me and said that. I don’t know if it’s pandemic-related or not.” Summing up the emotional tone of the record, Ward also sings on this track: “you feel the line is growing thin / between beautiful and strange.”
About Savoir Faire:
With a voice straight out of the jazz age, Savoir Faire brings the modern existential crisis into a world of retro-noir.
Having studied jazz guitar in college, Savoir Faire soon discovered the duets of Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald, shaping her approach to both harmonic and melodic lines on guitar and voice. She spent years performing as a lounge singer and jazz guitarist before adding the last few ingredients that would form the aesthetic of Savoir Faire: the influence of dramatic 60s noir and 90s alternative rock. With lush and syrupy vocals, biting lyricism, and searing guitar parts that hint at her Persian heritage, Savoir Faire invites listeners into a world of wistful nostalgia and modern rage.
Savoir Faire has been working on her debut studio album, Hopeless Nostalgic, with producer Dave Brophy (Will Dailey, Alisa Amidor) for the past two years. Single releases from the album earned her nominations for singer-songwriter of the year (Boston Music Awards 2023), jazz act of the year (New England Music Awards), and post-punk act of the year (Motif Awards) in 2023. She plans on releasing the album later this year.
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Thank you to our Summer Season Sponsors: BANKW Staffing, Beswick Engineering, and Procon, Inc.
Funded in part by a grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - Rutman Family Fund.
3S Artspace is supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
