Friday, March 13 7:30pm Jackie Tice

Radio programmers from New York City and Boston to Chicago and San Francisco have heralded Jackie Tice with banners like, “Best new songwriter”, and “A stand-out!” With the release of her most recent CD, Second Skin, Tice has made full use of her award-winning performing and song writing skills. Produced by 2005 Native American Grammy Winner, Bill Miller, in a week-long studio marathon in Bucks County, PA, Tice steps up and out with ten songs spanning pop-rock, jazz and folk styles. Jamey Haddad, percussion, (Paul Simon, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Liebman) and Pete Cummings, electric guitar, (Tanya Tucker, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley), are among the luminaries who helped create this sonic landscape framing Tice’s lyrical story songs. "She writes songs with messages," says Miller. "Her music has elements of jazz and rock. Hers is a voice that needs to be heard and her songs are as poetic as they are powerful."

"Lyrically brave" is how Acoustic Guitar magazine describes the music of Jackie Tice, adding, "Tice's songs capture instances of universal recognition and appeal. Her ode to a Dublin pub, 'The Marijo Tonight,' is a guitar player's 'Piano Man,' and as bittersweet as John Prine's 'Angel from Montgomery,'

A Kerrville New Folk Award-winner, the co-mingling of Tice's Native American and Old European roots informs her musical and lyrical points of view, carefully combing through subjects from Shakespearian love to the call of coyotes. She's been called "an eloquent storyteller whose songs elevate common experience with subtle layers of meaning," (Richard Fox, WCUW), and an artist with "a poet's touch," writing about "complex, believable characters who grow more vivid with each listen," (R.A.B. Perch, Folk Acoustic Music Exchange.)

Raised in a Pennsylvania steel mill town with a family of twelve, Tice grew up fast and with enough songwriting fodder “to last a lifetime,” she says. Forays into social work and college music theory eventually lead her back to performance and songwriting and her strong Native spiritual roots. Today, she has four albums to her credit, artist endorsement deals with John Pearse Strings and Audix Microphones, and a long list of kudos from major music media in the US, Australia, Italy and Canada. "I love your songs," Lucinda Williams said to Jackie backstage at the Kerrville Festival. Christine Lavin, folk diva of New York City, endorsed Jackie by declaring her song, The Marijo Tonight, "a modern-day classic," and including it on the compilation CD, The Stealth Project: Music Under The Radar.

In 2002, Tice produced a collection of songs inspired by her oil paintings entitled "In These Bones," which, alongside the Doc Watson/David Holt collection, Legacy, was recently nominated as Best Traditional Folk Album by the grassroots JPF Music Awards. In 2003, Tice composed the soundscape for an educational video documentary produced by Rutgers University entitled, Riparian Buffers: Restoring and Managing New Jersey's Streamside Forests.

Tice's song, Domestic Delinquent, was included in the 2002 Random House publication, Life's A Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor. An anthology of humorous short stories, poetry, songs, and cartoons-all from the pens of women, and all proceeds donated to benefit charities- it includes the writings of Kathy Najimy, Wendy Wasserstein, Gloria Steinem, Erma Bombeck, Christine Lavin, Julie Gold and others.

Jackie Tice has appeared with many formidable artists. On-stage festival and listening club performances and workshops with Bill Miller, John Gorka, Christine Lavin, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, Garnet Rogers, Susan Werner, Frank Christian, Caroline Aiken, Dana Cooper, and others, from Club Passim (Boston) and the Tin Angel (Philadelphia) to the Bluebird Café (Nashville) and Eddie’s Attic (Atlanta) have paved the way for her recognition as an important voice among American songwriters.

"Her songs are as poetic as they are powerful." GRAMMY winner, Bill Miller

"Musically buoyant and lyrically brave tunes - folk-rock with Native American spirituality...Tice's songs capture instances of universal recognition and appeal."

Steve Givens, Acoustic Guitar Magazine

"An eloquent storyteller whose songs elevate common experience with subtle layers of meaning. Jackie's messages are delivered memorably amid graceful, emotive performance."

WCUW, Worcester, MA (Richard Fox.