She
plays music the way it was originally meant to be: soulful, poetic, and
straight from the heart. Singer-songwriter Heidi Stone has just released
her highly anticipated sophomore effort: CUP . Heidi has
taken her unique artistry to the Philadelphia Music Conference and was
selected as a finalist in the Portsmouth Folk Festival and Wintertide
Coffeehouse Songwriting contests. She's shared the stage with Ritchie
Havens, Slaid Cleaves, Cosy Sheridan, the Carol Noonan Band, Thanks to
Gravity, Peter Mulvey, Joel Cage, Harvey Reid, and Truffle, among others.
Heard on Maine and NH Public Radio, Heidi's music has been acclaimed by
Dirty Linen as "a palate of folk, jazz, and bluesy funk music...rich
with poetic lyrics ." Her intensity and voice have been compared
to Amy Ray’s and Performing Songwriter noted that Heidi is " somewhere
between Patty Larkin and Ferron...funky, frisky...with spirited guitar
chops and passionate vocals…a talent on the rise ." Rosanne
Cash praises Heidi as well: "I envy Heidi's guitar playing. ‘The
Call’ is a song I wish I'd written ."
At
present Heidi is touring as a solo artist or with her fiery jazz-funk
tinged trio/quartet featuring drummer Ken Sharples and keyboardist Jonathan
Thurston. "I really like this path, partly since it's so specifically
mine. That may sound silly, but I've seen too many who don't like their
life or their work. I could never be a plumber or accountant, but if I
were, I'd probably be learning the same life lessons. For me as a songwriter,
vocalist and guitarist, though, I write what I know and about what I want
to know. I ask questions that I may not necessarily be able to answer
now, but hopefully someday, I will be able to answer them. 'Black and
white' to me in anything is pretty boring. I want to go musically and
lyrically to that in-between place that's not so certain or expected.
I think the songs on CUP do just that."
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