Merchant Performs Children's Concert

On January 28th Natalie Merchant gave a free concert for over 2600 school children at The Smith Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a video of highlights from the show.

THE GREAT NATALIE MERCHANT IS BACK !!!

GIVING UP EVERITHING.

Giving up everything
My hungry ghost of hopefulness
Giving up everything
Not haunted by wanting this

Giving up everything
The fortune I was saving
Giving up everything
I mercy-killed my craving

Giving up everything
I've opened up my eyes for this
Giving up everything
See the cold magnificent emptiness

Give what I want for how it is
The stone inside for the bitterness
For sweetness at the core of it

Giving up everything
The master plan, the scheming
Giving up everything
My cursed search for meaning

Giving up everything
The compass and the map I was reading
The hinterlands I'm leaving
I'm finally leaving behind

Giving up everything
The big to-do, the hullabaloo
Talk of hope for some twisted truth
For the everlasting ache of it

No longer sleep, not chained to it
No gate, no guard, no keeper
No guru, master, teacher
See the slow, see the faces
Dissolve to black, no traces

SHELTER CONCERT DOCUMENTARY INSPIRED BY ONE BILLION RISING 2013

“On February 14th, 2013 I attended a local One Billion Rising event in the Hudson Valley, where I’ve lived for 25 years. That day I was confronted by 14 life-sized cardboard female figures, each with a name of a woman, the town where she had lived and the date on which she was murdered by her intimate partner. Fourteen women murdered in ten years, where was the public outcry? Where was the grieving? One of the victims had been a neighbor of mine but I had not been aware of her death. I had passed her house for months while driving my daughter to school. My blood chilled. How could I be a member of this community in good standing and not respond to this outrage. As the day progressed, I met directors of local shelters, prosecutors, police officers and survivors. I began to envision a follow-up event in which all these phenomenal advocates could be recognized for their work. I wanted to help them present to a larger audience this little understood and rarely discussed public health crisis in our region, in our world that is Domestic Violence. The benefit concert that resulted was by far the most emotional of my 30-year career; thankfully it was captured on film. I am so grateful to Eve Ensler and One Billion Rising for opening my eyes and inspiring me to use my voice to protest violence against women and children.” -Natalie Merchant,In this short film directed by musician-activist Natalie Merchant, a group of women living in the Mid-Hudson region of New York State respond to the crisis of domestic violence in their community with compassion and creativity. Musicians, advocates, criminal prosecutors, victims and survivors all take to the stage, illuminating the darkness surrounding this public health epidemic. Filmed on June 2, 2013 at The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College. All proceeds generated by this concert were donated to domestic violence shelters: Grace Smith House Poughkeepsie, NY and The Washbourne House, Kingston, NY.

Motherland

Natalie Merchant performing live at the Perkins School for the Blind Possibilities Gala on May 7, 2009 with The Perkins Trio, accompanied by Livingston Taylor on guitar and Brian Maes on piano.

10000 Maniacs (Natalie Merchant) singing The Latin One on The Word.

Fantastic clip of a rare 10000 Maniacs song performed live

Natalie Merchant - Texas - Yost Theater - Santa Ana, CA

Natalie Merchant performing "Texas" live at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana CA on May 9th, 2012. Recorded with a Panasonic DMC-ZS3 point-and-shoot camera, and converted using iMovie. "Texas" is an unrecorded/unreleased song which does not appear on any of Natalie's commercial or non-commercial releases.

Glen Hansard, Damien Rice, and Natalie Merchant performing Hallelujah.

Glen Hansard, Damien Rice, and Natalie Merchant played Hallelujah together for Glen's Haiti gig for Charity at Whelans in Dublin. Jan. 10th, 2010.