Natalie Merchant

Natalie Merchant joins for a Listening Party.

Singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant talks about her 35-year music career, social activism and latest project “Paradise is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings." 

After a seven-year period of silence, singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant is back with Leave Your Sleep, an ambitious two-disc set that features songs adapted from poems by British Victorians, early-and mid-20th century Americans and contemporary writers, as well as anonymous nursery rhymes.

After a seven-year period of silence, singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant is back with "Leave Your Sleep," an ambitious two-disc set that features songs adapted from poems by British Victorians, early-and mid-20th century Americans and contemporary writers, as well as anonymous nursery rhymes. Some 130 musicians took part. The former ...