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Jacqueline Schwab at the Homegrown Coffeehouse

Pianist Jacqueline Schwab creates spirited and meditative arrangements on traditional and vintage tunes from America, England, Scotland and beyondspinning out stories, in her variations on the themes -- Scots and Irish songs and dance tunes brought over by settlers, hymns and spirituals, ragtimeplus Latin waltzes and tango, Billie Holiday blues, Celtic music, and klezmer music. In Ken Burns' words, "Jacqueline Schwab brings more feeling and intensity to music than anyone I know. Her playing is insistent, physical, heartfelt and ... unusually moving." Playing with "the jazz/classical improvisational spirit of Keith Jarrett and the touch of George Winston ...." (New England Folk Almanac). Schwab has performed on over a dozen of Burns' documentaries, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, his Emmy-winning Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, The War, The National Parks, and Dust Bowl. She has performed on The Irish in America, Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary Film and other PBS documentaries. She has performed at the White House for President Clinton, celebrating Burns' Lewis and Clark series, and also, with Scottish singer Jean Redpath, on public radio's A Prairie Home Companion and CBS' Late Show with David Letterman Jacqueline Schwab at the Homegrown Coffeehouse, Saturday, October 18, at 8:00 P.M.