Melissa Ferrick

Melissa Ferrick

Tuesday, October 6

Melissa Ferrick in 9th Ward

Tickets: $15 advance / $20 day of show at Ticketweb,  Babeville Box Office (M-F 11a-5p), or charge by phone 888-223-6000 – GA Seated

7pm Doors 8pm Start

Melissa Ferrick’s 12th original album is a coming home.  She has arrived in a place musically that is both familiar and new.  Melissa is a better writer, engineer, producer, and overall artist.  The self-titled album is, in many ways, a new beginning for Ferrick.  Written in just over a year, recorded at home, and released on her own relaunched label, Right On Records, Ferrick has given us a simple, eloquent, and honest acoustic album with an undeniable level of maturity. For long-time fans, this will be a welcome new arrival.  For those who are just discovering Ferrick, this is a superb way to be introduced. A completely solo effort in its process, creation, and release, Melissa Ferrick is marking the middle of her career with a perfect return to songwriting, and to herself.

Melissa grew up in Ipswich, MA, playing the violin and going to jazz clubs on the North Shore with her father, who managed local bands. In elementary school, she learned to play trumpet and bass guitar, which led the way to songwriting in high school.  She went on to attend Berklee College of Music on songwriting and trumpet scholarships.  After two years playing Boston’s local rock club scene, Melissa left school and moved to New York City.  In July of 1991, Melissa was asked to open for Morrissey on his his “Kill Uncle” tour in the US and UK.  When she returned to the States, at 20 years old, she was offered deals with three major labels.

Melissa signed with Atlantic Records, and released two albums before being dropped.  She regrouped and released 3 albums on W.A.R.? Records. In 2000, Ferrick founded her own label, Right On Records, and released a string of Albums and EPs. In 2010, Ferrick put her own label on hold and signed with MPress Records. Melissa released 2 albums with them, 2011’s “Still Right Here” and 2013’s “the truth is.” Still Right Here debuted on Billboard’s Heat-Seekers Album Charts, won an 8th annual International Acoustic Music Award (IAMA), and garnered 2 Independent Music Award (IMA) nominations. The title track’s music video premiered on the launch of Huffington Post’s Gay site and won two RightOutTV awards. Ferrick was also a featured music honoree in OUT Magazine’s OUT100 – focusing on artists who make an impact on the community.  2013’s “the truth is” was the first self-produced album since ’04 and an evolution in the sound she had developed over the course of her career.

The result was a sweeping Americana/Alt-Country record that won the 2014 Independent Music Award for Alt-Country Album of the Year Fan Vote.
Ferrick is also an eight-time Boston Music Award winner and regarded by the industry and her peers as one of the most prolific and hardworking artists in the business.  Ferrick tours regularly and plays throughout North America, performing upwards of 100 shows a year. She has shared the stage with Morrissey, Marc Cohn, Paul Westerberg, Dwight Yoakam, John Hiatt, Weezer, Tegan and Sara, G-Love & Special Sauce, Bob Dylan, Dan Bern, Ani DiFranco, k.d. Lang, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Joan Armatrading, Mike Doughty, The Indigo Girls and many others.


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Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/06/2015
8:00 pm

Address
341 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo
New York
14202
United States