Elisa Peimer: Home

It's been a few months since I've played with the whole band, but that's just what's on the schedule for February 28.  Join us at 8pm that Tuesday at Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan Street in the Village!

I'll be joined by my talented singer/songwriter friends on January 5 for a special show celebrating the 40th anniversary of Joni Mitchell's album, Blue.  We're all getting together and each performing a song off the album.  I've picked the lovely "Little Green."  The whole show is a benefit for the Christopher Street Coffee House, a series of concerts held at the historic St. John's Lutheran Church on Christopher Street in the Village.  The show starts at 7:30pm and it's $15.  The list of performers is:

MEG BRAUN, ANNA DAGMAR, HONOR FINNEGAN, SHARON GOLDMAN, VICTORIA LAVINGTON, CATHERINE MILES, KARYN OLIVER, ELISA PEIMER, ALLISON SCOLA, CAROLANN SOLEBELLO, and ALLISON TARTALIA.

It will be an amazing evening of wonderful songs sung by talented singers!

I just got one of the nicest reviews ever from a visiting journalist at my show at Governor's Island.  I'm waiting for it to appear online, so in the meantime, here it is:

Eclectic Company

Incidental Music

By Leslie Berman

Incidentally, the best music of the afternoon of water was turned in by singer/writer Elisa Peimer, whose delicious and thought-provoking pop songs have been and should continue to be featured in soundtracks and cover versions by all and sundry, if the gods of getting-what-you-deserve get their collective act in gear.  Peimer’s been buzzing around the fringes of the about-to-make-it-big circuit for a while now, and her sweet and sultry vocals on her albums and EPs do justice to her tuneful, soulful music.  After overhearing her first song, I began to listen with intent, and soon found myself the owner of one of her CDs, courtesy of my ever-thoughtful brother.  We discussed Peimer’s chops and the to-ing and fro-ing of her success between numbers, falling silent each time she began to sing.  Why hasn’t she made it big yet, we both wondered?  Well, there is that power-ballad sensibility, and most young artists are doing their best to avoid the wall of sound, except if they’re selling tunes to TV shows that love the lush life.  But though her songs seem familiar, even if they’re nothing you’ve ever heard before, they also offer unexpected musical twists, and I for one hope Elisa Peimer never tires of making music.  If I knew that new music like this would be coming at me for the rest of my life, I could be content.