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NEWS
I
have some exciting news to share!! I have been selected to participate
in the Messa Music 'Artist of the Month' competition for July
2008!!! Messa Music is an online music magazine based in the
UK.
Please
visit their website to vote for me EVERYDAY! This is a volume/numbers
event and every single vote counts. You are allowed to vote
daily during the month of July - once every 24 hours.If I
win, I will receive international promotion and be linked
on their homepage for the entire month of August 2008!!
Click
on the link below and vote!!! Please visit once a day to help
me become the July 2008 Messa Music Artist of the Month!!!
http://www.messamusic.co.uk/vote-artist-month.php
Polls
close 1st August at 0:00.
Thank
you for listening to my music and sharing your feedback and
comments on my MySpace profile. It is so very appreciated.
And, thank you for voting.
Noa Bursie, as the July 2008 Artist of the Month!!!!
Support
Original Music!!
The
5/9/08 recording of Mamapalooza Buffalo is now on ThinkTwiceRadio.com.
Simply go to our website: www.ThinkTwiceRadio.com
and click on Mamapalooza Buffalo
Tune
in: WGMC 90.1FM
The Spectrum w/ Derrick Lucas
10pm - 12:30am
Noa has been placed on the station's regular rotation, but Derrick
is
featuring songs from Noa's new release, Familiar Addiction and
favorites from TalkStory on his program every Sunday evening.
Tune in and call in to request.
1-585-966-5299
Noa's
CD's, "Familiar Addiction" and "Talk
Story" are both available at New World Record
and all four Record Theatre Stores.
UB
Alumni Magazine Features Noa
Noa Bursie, BA '81
& EdM '89
Finding her muse
Noa
Bursie, BA'81, EDM '89, has music in her blood. Her mother,
a self-taught pianist, made sure that there was always music
in their Buffalo home. Bursie says that her mother’s eclectic
tastes gave her an appreciation for a wide range of genres,
including classical, jazz, rock, blues, country, and folk. One
momentous day a teenaged Bursie, the youngest of nine, snuck
into her brother’s room to play his guitar. “I remember
that I just sat down and started strumming the guitar, and that
was it. I connected and had found my muse,” she says. Bursie’s
maternal grandfather had been a traveling blues musician in
the south and she attributes that metaphysical connection to
her passion for music and playing the guitar. She says, “I
never knew my grandfather, but we share that link – the
love of organic music that has a history, a culture and generations
attached to it.” Bursie taught herself to play guitar in
high school, and while at UB she began playing at coffeehouses
and other venues. She continues to take her love of music to
new heights; she has been the opening act for numerous artists,
including Grammy winner Shawn Colvin and her second CD, Familiar
Addiction, is set for release in 2008.
A
love of learning
English
was the natural major choice for Bursie. “Writing has always
been close to my heart, and I have always been an avid reader,”
she explains. While there were a number of UB professors who
made an impression on her, she says that Joseph Fradin and Ray
Federman of English, Samuel Paley of Classics and Hebrew instructor
Yael Paley were especially memorable. “I feel that I was
particularly fortunate to encounter professors who were passionate
about what they did and committed to their craft. They imparted
a love of learning, and because of them I was inspired to pursue
knowledge and to pursue my music, as well as to broaden my experience,”
Bursie says. After almost a decade of working, traveling, and
writing and playing music, she decided to return to UB for graduate
school. A yearlong overseas experience in Israel, where she
immersed herself in the Hebrew language and tutored non-native
English speakers, led her to earn her master’s degree in
teaching English as a second language.
Over
the past year Bursie has shared the stage with several musicians
she has long admired, noting, “A lot of my musical dreams
seem to be materializing.” In addition to opening for Shawn
Colvin at The Tralf in Buffalo and for Richie Haven at Artpark
in Lewiston, NY, in December she was the supporting artist for
Los Lobos. Bursie came somewhat full circle this past fall when
she opened for Grammy winner India Arie at UB's Center for the
Arts. During her set, Arie called Bursie back to the stage and
the two sang a duet to Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors,"
which happens to be one of Bursie’s favorite songs. “India
was so gracious and warm. It was entirely impromptu and was
one of the most special moments in my life,” Bursie says.
Currently
Bursie teaches courses in IB World Literature and Theory of
Knowledge at City Honors High School in Buffalo. Her dual roles
of teacher and musician often intersect. Bursie’s first
CD, TalkStory, released in 2005, takes its title from a term
coined by Maxine Hong Kingston in her autobiography The Woman
Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Bursie says, “Talk-story
refers to oral traditions, history and stories that Kingston’s
mother would tell her. I felt that was an appropriate description
for what I was doing in my first CD.” Her sophomore effort,
Familiar Addiction, has an even more personal theme. “It
came out of wanting to articulate that experience of the behavioral
rather than chemical addiction. Very often we can identify behaviors
that are detrimental; but, having the courage and the integrity
to step out of the pattern, and challenging and overcoming the
self-defeating behavior is much more difficult,” Bursie
explains. That CD will be released in February 2008 and a concert
at The Tralf is scheduled.
All this and she cooks too
Bursie,
who still plays regularly at her self-proclaimed home-base club
Nietzsche’s, also considers herself to be an accomplished
chef. It has become something of a tradition for her to treat
the crew and her fellow musicians at AudioMagic studio in Buffalo
with sumptuous, gourmet delights during lengthy recording sessions.
She feels blessed to have worked with so many talented artists
and technicians over the years, artists like Buffalo Music Hall
of Fame percussionist, Emile Latimer, or bassist, Jerry Livingston,
and she is very grateful for their contributions to her art.
“I live for my music,” Bursie says. “I was the
kid at 7 or 8 years old who had her ear glued to a little transistor
radio all night long, or at least until my mother came in and
told me to turn it off. I would listen to everything –
Joni Mitchell, Howlin Wolf, Led Zepplin, Emmylou Harris and
Aretha Franklin – a broad spectrum of artists linked by
the organic quality of their music and the unpretentious, immediate
quality of their delivery. They all resonated in me. Music is
an incredible phenomenon. It is one of the most profoundly stirring
forms of expression in the human experience.”
--Jessica
Dudek, BA ’94
December 2007
If
you would like to post a message to Noa you can now do that
at her new MySpace at myspace.com/noabursiesongwriter
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