Susan Werner sets new standards on Fall Tour

NEW YORK (KOCH Records) - How do you get to Carnegie Hall? SUSAN WERNER has found the answer. Backed by stellar reviews of her new latest CD, I CAN'T BE NEW, Koch recording artist SUSAN WERNER made it to the nation's most prestigious concert hall this year, and is set to bring her remarkable original compositions in the style of the Great American Songbook on her Fall 2004 U.S. tour.

Since the Spring 2004 release of I CAN'T BE NEW, Susan has added NPR's Morning Edition and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts to her burgeoning list of national TV and radio appearances, while seeing the CD reach No 1 on Amazon.com. And in May, Susan was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall part of Michael Feinstein's special tribute to the songwriting of Irving Berlin.

The fall tour includes stops at many of the nation's most prominent clubs, concert halls and listening rooms: Sculler's Jazz Club in Boston; The Cinegrill in Los Angeles; The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA (with Madeleine Peyroux); a Thanksgiving holiday three-nighter at the celebrated Cabaret at Odette's in New Hope, PA, and concluding with a very special two-show New Year's Eve engagement at Davenport's Cabaret in Chicago.

A new direction for an artist already well-established on the singer-songwriter circuit, Susan made a concerted effort to appropriate the musical materials and formal language of the songbook era.
"I guess you'd describe this recoding as Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbook meets Carole King's Tapestry," says Susan. "I wanted to use the music and mood of another era as much as possible, but still reflect the dreams and thoughts of a very contemporary woman."