Granite Sounds blog: profile of April's Open Mic featured artist, Teresa Storch

Jen O'Callaghan, author of the Granite Sounds blog (affiliated with Encore/Buzz.com) has written a profile of Teresa Storch, our featured artist for April's Second Saturday Open Mic on 4/11/09.

STORCH SONG

On Saturday, April 11, starting at 8 p.m., Studio 99 in the Picker Building (down in Nashua's Millyard), will host an open-mike event. Admission is free, but there will be a hat passed around to collect donations. How many events do you know of that you get to decide the price of admission? Not many, I would bet.

Saturday's feature will be Teresa Storch, a Boston-based singer-songwriter who originally hails from Nebraska. She has been in the Hub since 1999, drawn by the thriving folk music scene of which we in New Hampshire are so often the beneficiaries of great performances. In 2003, she was among the singers selected for Boston's Best Singer/Songwriter Showcase. 

Her songs have drawn comparisons to Natalie Merchant and Suzanne Vega, but I think my favorites are the songs that she injects with a bluesy, heavy-lidded tone, such as the title track on her debut album, "Muscle Memory," and the sweetly sad "Mr. Moon" off her latest, "Streams of Concrete."

Storch is a promising singer and you can catch her on the ground floor and say you knew her music when. An added bonus is Studio 99's funky atmosphere and gracious host, Elise MacDonald.