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  • Genre: Americana / Celtic / Folk

    Location DULUTH, Minnesota, Un

    Profile Views: 22478

    Last Login: 1/5/2011

    Member Since 3/6/2006

    Website www.sarasoftich.com

    Record Label wonderbuzz

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Sara Softich has extensively toured the United States with partner Jason Wussow since 2005. The duo arrived in the mountains of Taos, NM for the first time in 2006 on a CD release tour. The small mountain town is an artistic and cultural melting pot with a rich history. Visual artists, musicians, and writers flock to Taos to create. After that first encounter, Softich fell in love with the sunny, quirky, mountain town and was deeply drawn back to Taos. She embarked on two songwriting journeys, riding the highway from Duluth Minnesota’s cold dark winters to Taos New Mexico’s intense sunny mountains where she spent two separate months (January 2008 and December 2009) in solitude writing a song a day. Most of the songs were written during Sara’s cat- and house-sitting stint in an Earthship surrounded by sagebrush and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (www.heliohouse.com). Through this journey and solitude Softich created the album “Highway to the Sun” and then received a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council to record the album. “Highway to the Sun” was recorded and engineered by Eric Swanson at Sacred Heart Studios in Duluth, MN. All songs on “Highway to the Sun” were written, produced, and performed by Softich. “Highway to the Sun” is about living out a dream on the highway as well as in the enchanted dreamland that is nature. The piano, fiddle, banjo, Hammond organ, guitar, and percussion on the album (all played by Softich) bring the listener into the dream and close to her experience. The artist is torn between the icy cold waters of Minnesota’s Lake Superior (“My hands are cold and my heart is frozen in the deep blue water. . .”) and the intense warm sun of northern New Mexico’s mountains (“Follow the sun. . .”). The forces of nature pervade every song in “Highway to the Sun” as the artist grapples with the question, “Can one’s heart simultaneously exist in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and in the Land of Enchantment?” Softich has toured extensively through the Midwest and the West since 2005 with partner Jason Wussow as Yeltzi. See www.sarasoftich.com for details. She will be returning to Taos, NM January-April 2011 to complete a three month artist in residence she was awarded at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. www.wurlitzerfoundation.org/ Softich is a fiscal year 2010 recipient of an Artist Support Grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (www.aracouncil.org) which is funded with money from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, and an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature.

  • Members

    Sara Softich - fiddle/piano/vocals .. Jason Wussow - electric guitar/bass/vocals/harmonica

  • Influences

    Patty Griffin .. Gillian Welch .. Casey Chambers .. Skatalites

  • Sounds Like

    Patty Griffin ..

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Bio:

Sara Softich's interest in music began at an early age. She began playing piano at age 7 and the violin at 12. Fiddle tunes became her passion as a teenager and, influenced by her father's love of music, at 17 she played her first guitar chord. She began songwriting a few years later when she left Minnesota’s Iron Range. In 2004 she released Rusted and Bent, featuring alternative bluegrass songs inspired by her small town roots in northern Minnesota. She toured regionally, nationally, and internationally with Rusted and Bent, performing nearly 100 shows in 2005 at music festivals, theaters, listening rooms, colleges, and pubs. In fall 2005 Softich began recording Pipe Dream, a collection of piano songs she wrote. Her childhood upright piano inspired the recording. Pipe Dream was produced by Softich and engineered by Jason Wussow at their home studio on an old 8 channel board. The album is dedicated to Sara’s mother, who spent her last $600 on the piano for then-10-year-old Sara. The original idea for the project was to record a simple piano/vocal CD but it developed into an intricate grouping of songs, sounds, and guest musicians. Pipe Dream abandons the alternative bluegrass sound of Rusted and Bent, instead serving as its alter ego. Its volatile lineup of songs ranges from theatrical cabaret to patient, beautiful melodies.

Member Since:

March 06, 2006

Members:

Sara Softich - fiddle/piano/vocals
Jason Wussow - electric guitar/bass/vocals/harmonica

Influences:

Patty Griffin
Gillian Welch
Casey Chambers
Skatalites

Sounds Like:

Patty Griffin

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