Tora and the Hearts in Light will be at Barking Legs Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance at www.ArtFRONT.com and at the door. All ages are welcome.
This is the third installment in the new ArtFRONT sponsored events series which allows local artists and outside artists' management to utilize local resources in production and publicity to tailor an entire event to their own vision on the date of their choosing.
Review for Tora:
New York City singer/songwriter Tora Fisher found her voice-and salvation through heartache and loss. Not many people walk away as the sole survivor of a tragic plane crash as did Tora. Her debut CD, Spilling Over, is a passionate ode to these very themes, highly personal, intensely moving and exploring emotions which emanate from the depths of the human soul.
With a powerful voice and style that brings to mind combinations of Tori Amos, Adele, Ann Wilson and Chrissie Hynde, 22-year-old Tora Fisher explores a somewhat forbidden love through classic break-up/heartache songs and soaring numbers dealing with post traumatic stress in her song “Own The Skies.” The emotions of seeing her father’s grave for the first time spill over on “And I Won’t Cry” and “Second Tree From The Corner,” written when Tora was just 13. Every track on Spilling Over causes the listener to pause and think, contemplating parallels between the songs they are hearing and their very own life experiences.
Accompanying Tora on Spilling Over are Michael Mugrage (who also co-wrote produced the CD,) Seth Glassman on Bass and Frank Vilardi on Drums. Spilling Over was written in New York City and recorded at Carriage House Studios and was a year in the making.
“I called the album "Spilling Over," said Tora, "because I finally wrote about all the experiences I was trying to keep inside. Once I gave in to exposing myself on the record, all of the songs nearly exploded out of me. It can be scary to dig that deep but I knew it was the only way the music would be honest and meaningful…and hopefully, touch somebody.”
Live, Tora will perform as a trio with percussionist, guitar, keys and electronics.
For more information visit www.OfficialTora.com