Barbara Fasano at Metropolitan Room

BUSY BEING FREE IN CONCERT, an intimate evening of piano/vocal duets celebrating the release of Fasano's newest CD, returns to Metropolitan Room.

Ms. Fasano explores the complexities of love and the circles we all swirl within, singing “wise, literate songs about life in all its confusing wonder,” as author James Gavin writes in the CD’s liner notes. Gavin adds, “She seems incapable of singing an unintelligent or unmusical phrase.” The title comes from Joni Mitchell’s “Cactus Tree”, and the CD takes a deep dive into a woman’s point of view, with other lyricists including Dorothy Fields, Carolyn Leigh, Fran Landesman and Nellie Lutcher....

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BUSY BEING FREE IN CONCERT, an intimate evening of piano/vocal duets celebrating the release of Fasano's newest CD, returns to Metropolitan Room.

Ms. Fasano explores the complexities of love and the circles we all swirl within, singing “wise, literate songs about life in all its confusing wonder,” as author James Gavin writes in the CD’s liner notes. Gavin adds, “She seems incapable of singing an unintelligent or unmusical phrase.” The title comes from Joni Mitchell’s “Cactus Tree”, and the CD takes a deep dive into a woman’s point of view, with other lyricists including Dorothy Fields, Carolyn Leigh, Fran Landesman and Nellie Lutcher.

"Barbara Fasano sings with such deeply felt belief in her material that the art she practices is closer to pure expression than interpretation. Her take on 'Photographs,' in which she brings at least three levels to the song at the same time, is worth the price of the CD." ~ David Hajdu, music critic for The Nation

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