Clare Burson's Rounder Records debut 'Silver and Ash' is out this Fall (9.14) and has been a lifetime in the making - actually, several lifetimes, as the album is inspired by her family's stories of exodus from Eastern Europe and Germany in the 1930s, which she has heard about since her childhood in Memphis, Tenn. in the 1980s.
Her interest in those stories - and especially in her grandmother Helga's refusal to tell them - led her to become a history major at Brown, a Fulbright Scholar in Germany, and to jobs at Washington, DC's Holocaust Museum and New York's Lower East Side Tenement Museum, as well as a teaching job at St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, where she now lives. Eventually, Clare earned a Six Points Fellowship, a collaboration among several nonprofits supported by UJA-Federation of New York, which enabled her to work on 'Silver and Ash.'
Read Burson's essay on mourning her lost worlds at Jewcy:
http://www.jewcy.com/post/clare-Burson-Tisha-BavHear songs from 'Silver and Ash':
http://www.myspace.com/clarebursonhttp://www.shorefire.com/clients/cburson/http://www.clareburson.com/ 
