Lucy Kaplansky is an acclaimed singer-song writer of rare talent\, &ldquo\;a truly gifted performer with a bag full o f enchanting songs&rdquo\; (The New Yorker) and &ldquo\;the troubadour lau reate of modern city folk&rdquo\; (The Boston Globe). She has released nin e critically acclaimed CDs\, two of which were awarded Best Pop Album of t he year by the Association for Independent Music. National Public Radio de scribed her 2012 album Reunion as &ldquo\;a master class in making the per sonal universal\,&rdquo\; and National Public Radio&rsquo\;s Scott Simon c alled her new album Last Days of Summer\, released in June 2022\, &ldquo\; Absolutely wonderful&hellip\;.utterly beautiful and affecting&hellip\; Luc y sings songs from her life with resonance in ours.&rdquo\; \;
\nLucy was part of folk supergroup Cry Cry Cry with Dar Williams and Richar d Shindell (which The New Yorker dubbed &ldquo\;a collection of lovely har monizing and pure emotion&rdquo\;). Their album was an astonishing success in stores and on radio resulting in a national tour of sold-out concerts\ , as well as a national sold-out reunion tour in 2018. \;
\nHer recording of Roxy Music's "More than This" has over 12 million streams on Spotify\, and she has been featured on NPR&rsquo\;s All Things Considered\ , Weekend Edition\, and Morning Edition as well as BBC Radio 2 and 4\, and CBS Sunday Morning\, and has sung harmony on albums by Suzanne Vega\, Bry an Ferry\, Nanci Griffith and Shawn Colvin Her song &ldquo\;Guilty as Sin& rdquo\; was featured in the NBC television show &ldquo\;Ed\,&rdquo\; and h er vocals were featured in the Tom Cruise film &ldquo\;The Firm.&rdquo\;\nhttps://toledo.libnet.info/event/12496960 URL;VALUE=URI:https://toledo.libnet.info/event/12496960 ATTACH:https://static.libnet.info/images/events/toledo/LucyKaplanskyCommun ico.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR