Tracy Drach

Tracy Drach's voice is rich and soulful, smoked velvet with a crystaline edge. Spicier than folk, headier than swing, her music flirts with the secrets we keep hidden in the shadow of ordinary living. It beckons us to the places we call home, whether she's crooning out a ballad or stamping out a call for social change.Tracy wrote one of her first songs while working in a chewing gum factory. Her first paying gig was singing with an American Girl Group in the clubs and taverns of Seville, Spain and she went on to become a local favorite on Chapel Hill, NC's thriving folk scene in the late 80's and early 90's. Armed with her acoustic guitar and faith in the kindness of strangers and their couches, she began touring up and down the East coast, in coffeeshops, bookstores, and bars, at women's music festivals, conferences, colleges, house concerts and the occassional subway station.Throughout the 1990's as a staff member of Ladyslipper Music, a distributor of recordings by women artists, Tracy was introduced to and influenced by a world of independent and mostly little known songwriters, including Ferron, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Holly Near. Her focus as a solo performer turned toward using music as a powerful tool for social and personal transformation. Tracy has enjoyed sharing the stage with k.d.lang, Indigo Girls, ani difranco, Roseann Cash, Pete Seeger, Jill Sobule, Ellis Paul, Loudon Wainwright III, Mary McCaslin, Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, Ferron, Pat Humphries, Margie Adam, Holly Near.She has three self-produced albums, "Female Blues" (1987), "Another Door" (1990) and "Listen for the Kiss" (2000). She has led workshops at festivals and conferences on album production, the significance of women in music, and creativity and the spiritual nature of music.