* Claudia Schmidt (at Bull Run Restaurant)

Claudia Schmidt

2-25-2017 (Ballroom)

More than 4 decades as a touring professional have found Michigan native Claudia Schmidt traversing North America as well as Europe in venues ranging from intimate clubs to 4,000 seat theatres, and festival stages in front of 25,000 rapt listeners. She has recorded nineteen albums of mostly original songs, exploring folk, blues, and jazz idioms featuring her acclaimed 12-string guitar and mountain dulcimer playing. 

Schmidt weaves her way through her concert in much the same manner as a jester. Interwoven anecdotes, revealing her past and present. Her concerts are an endless display of self-realization through humor and longing, leaving audience members yearning to become an integral part of her world. She has that rare ability to remain fresh and enjoy her talent to entertain as much as the audience enjoys being entertained.

Claudia has a new CD out with Sally Rogers called "We Are Welcomed." This is their fourth collaboration and it's a whole different sonic experience. Their amazing vocals are front and center, but surrounded with wonderful textures and rhythm and the lively accompaniment of Duke Levine, Richard Gates and Dave Mattacks, with piano and strings, oboe, reed organ and even a Hammond B3 organ. Get a signed copy at this show.