“I think great songs are born. They are born with all the urgency of childbirth, born out of pain, anger, joy, wit, and delivered by instinct, skill and love.” It is this passion for the song that fuels all facets of a career that has brought Peters to the Grammys twice as a songwriter, won her a CMA Song Of The Year award for the groundbreaking Independence Day, taken her on repeated sold-out tours across the UK and Ireland, and seen the release of six critically acclaimed albums...
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The album One To The Heart, One To The Head, a collaboration with singer-songwriter Tom Russell, will be released on February 1, 2009. Check back at this website for updates. Go to the music section.
Coming in 2009: The Borderlanders Canada Tour featuring Sylvia Tyson, Ron Hynes, Gretchen Peters & Graham Isaacson (January/February), New England (April), the second annual Powerful Women, Powerful Voices workshop at Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA (April), and the return of Wine, Women & Song to the UK (May). Plus shows in Nashville, TN, Columbus, OH, Crested Butte, CO and more. Later in the year Gretchen will ride the Cowboy Train with Tom Russell and tour Ireland, the UK and Europe. Dates are being added constantly, please check back often. Go to the tour section.
"Gretchen Peters (aided by co-producer Doug Lancio) has fashioned a wondrous, wrenching personal reflection on love. Setting her personal reflections to music and arrangements that have, at times, a spare beauty and, at others, a soaring but demure grandeur, Peters makes sure that nothing's overdone, despite the presence of orchestral elements, cooing pop background voices, and evocative instrumental flourishes courtesy of violins, violas, cellos, and clarinets. Peters...has a poet's eye for the telling detail. Deep and deeply beautiful, Burnt Toast & Offerings is a fully realized work of art."
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