Listen: Natalie Merchant Talks with WNYC's Leonard Lopate

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Natalie Merchant was a guest on WNYC's Leonard Lopate show today. She spoke with Lopate about her 35-year career in music, her social activism, and her new album, Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings. Hear their conversation here. Merchant will join Rolling Stone's Anthony DeCurtis in a conversation at the 92nd Street Y in NYC tonight and heads out on tour in March.

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Natalie Merchant was a guest on the Leonard Lopate show on New York NPR member station WNYC today. She spoke with Lopate about her 35-year career in music, her social activism, and her new album, Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings, released in November on Nonesuch Records. Paradise Is There features new recordings of the beloved songs of her multi-platinum solo debut album, Tigerlily, as they have evolved over two decades of live performance. Listen to her conversation with Lopate below.

Merchant will join Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis in a conversation about her career at the 92nd Street Y in New York City tonight, also performing a selection of songs from Paradise Is There. She heads out on a three-week tour of the US and Europe in March, including two shows at the Beacon Theatre in New York and a night at Royal Albert Hall in London. For details and tickets, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

To pick up a copy of Paradise Is There, Natalie Merchant, and her Nonesuch debut album, Leave Your Sleep, visit iTunes or the Nonesuch Store, where orders include a download of the complete album at checkout.

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  • Wednesday, February 10, 2016
    Listen: Natalie Merchant Talks with WNYC's Leonard Lopate
    Dan Winters

    Natalie Merchant was a guest on the Leonard Lopate show on New York NPR member station WNYC today. She spoke with Lopate about her 35-year career in music, her social activism, and her new album, Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings, released in November on Nonesuch Records. Paradise Is There features new recordings of the beloved songs of her multi-platinum solo debut album, Tigerlily, as they have evolved over two decades of live performance. Listen to her conversation with Lopate below.

    Merchant will join Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis in a conversation about her career at the 92nd Street Y in New York City tonight, also performing a selection of songs from Paradise Is There. She heads out on a three-week tour of the US and Europe in March, including two shows at the Beacon Theatre in New York and a night at Royal Albert Hall in London. For details and tickets, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

    To pick up a copy of Paradise Is There, Natalie Merchant, and her Nonesuch debut album, Leave Your Sleep, visit iTunes or the Nonesuch Store, where orders include a download of the complete album at checkout.

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