KAREN SAVOCA & PETE HEITZMAN
Karen Savoca puts her heart into a song the way a great actor throws herself into a role. Her supple, soulful alto charms with an infinite range of expression. She can even sing several notes at once, her own brand of throat singing she calls vocal hydroplaning. Savoca is also a gifted songwriter, drawing you into her world with humor and compassion, telling her stories with such grace and ease, you feel as though you've been invited to her table for supper. Though she composes and records on a variety of instruments, Savoca opts for the primal combination of voice and drum in live performance, and her groove is wide and satisfying.
Pete Heitzman can make his guitar sound like a cello, a pedal steel, a rutting elk, and some things only imagined. With this broad pallet of tones and textures he paints the ideal landscapes for Savoca's songs. An innovative and sensitive accompanist, Heitzman is so full of surprises that he has been called "a human aurora borealis."
Karen and Pete first met on a stage and each immediately recognized the other as the perfect musical partner. Years of leading their all-original, dance-driven group somehow imbued this duo with the power to sound like a full band, whether it’s explosive funk or orchestral ballad. Electrifying, unique, and always uplifting, these improvisational performers possess "the fearlessness of a high wire act working without a net."
An 1890’s church in the hills of upstate New York serves as home, recording studio and headquarters for their indie label, Alcove Records.
Savoca’s sixth solo release, In The Dirt (2006), was captured in a two-day session with Heitzman and longtime collaborator T-Bone Wolk (Shawn Colvin, Elvis Costello, Hall & Oates).
Sun Oct 21 | 7 pm
CSPS | 1103 Third St SE | Cedar Rapids
$12 advance | $15 day of show

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