Maura Kennedy has been touring and recording for the past fifteen years as one-half of the folk-pop mavens, The Kennedys. On January 5th Maura will release her first solo album entitled "Parades of Echoes."
Maura is the daughter of an English professor, and the "musical one" of seven children, Maura Kennedy carved out her moments of teenage creative solitude sequestered in a closet, blasting Queen and Kate Bush on headphones, while she read C.S. Lewis and Stephen R. Donaldson.
With "Parades of Echoes," Maura delivers on the power chords and the hooks she is known for, but she doesn't shrink from the heavy stuff. Shadowy dreamscapes evoke Emily Dickinson, the 50's noir of Patsy Cline, and even Shakespere's cursed Thane of Cawdor by way of Don and Phil Everly. From the dark, almost Gothic "The Thing with Feathers" to the longing of what could have been in "New Way to Live," Maura's songs take inspiration from novels, poetry and even her own dreams.
Maura grew up in Syracuse and has lived in Austin (where she hooked up with Nanci Griffith, and toured the U.S. and British Isles behind Nanci's Grammy-wining "Other Voices, Other Rooms,") Virginia and Northhampton, Mass, but the road always led Maura back to New York City, where she conceived the idea of writing a song and making a master quality recording every month for thirteen months. "Parades of Echoes" is the brilliant result, a melodic journal of her emotional seasons.
Check out more of Maura Kennedy on her official web site: www.MauraKennedy.com
Maura Kennedy's new album "Parades of Echoes" can be found here.
[Maura Kennedy]