NEWS
Noa
is preparing to go back into the studio to record her
Third CD. There is a tremendous excitement brewing about
this one. Noa will be working with Grammy Award Winning
Composer, Guitarist and Producer, Will Ackerman of Windham
Hill Records. Will Ackerman was the first to record
guitar master, Michael Hedges, and was instrumental
in introducing him and his music to the world. Noa will
be recording at Imaginary Road Studios in Vermont this
Summer. Check in for updates and further announcements!!!!!
:-)
CD
WILL RAISE FUNDS FOR FLIGHT 3407 MEMORIAL
By Michelle Kearns
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
After
the plane crashed and killed 50 people about two miles
from Noa Bursie’s house in Clarence, she went online
to write down her thoughts and to sort through her feelings.
Without
realizing it, she started a song.
The
singer/songwriter began by posting a note to a group
of friends on the social networking site Facebook two
days after the crash.
“Let’s
honor their memory with solemnity and reverence . .
. and watch the sun set and wait for spring and help
our kids do homework . . . and book our next flight
. . . and live each day like we mean it . . .”
she wrote.
Her friend, writer Christina Abt, among others, wrote
back. The correspondence that followed was the beginning
of a song — a “sonic hug” — that
Bursie and Abt wrote together.
Now
Bursie and Abt, along with local singers and musicians,
have recorded the song, called “Love Knows No Boundaries."......
CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE
NOA'S
INTERVIEW & LIVE MUSIC ON THINK TWICE RADIO
with SUSAN MARIE
Listen
to a special evening of live music and stories as Susan
Marie:
"This is NOT the Apple" program welcomes Noa
to the studio.
http://www.thinktwiceradio.com/sue-marie/sue-marie.html
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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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