attend > schedule >

Imogen Heap and Gregory Alan Isakov, presented by 97.3 KBCO

Live Show: Sunday, Nov 15, 2009   7:00 pm
Location: The Boulder Theater

This week, talented British singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer Imogen Heap makes her inaugural eTown visit. This two time Grammy nominee shares her most-innovative songs with arrangements mixing both electronic and traditional instrumentation. In her interview with host Nick Forster, she gives the audience a sonic tour of some of these unique instruments and sounds. Also joining us is Gregory Alan Isakov who makes his return to the eTown stage. This Boulder based singer-songwriter has built a large national following. He's winning accolades from all around-like this one: "Hands down one of the best new songwriters on the scene." (Amy Ray, Indigo Girls). Nick & Helen and the ETones join in on a tune or two, as well. Also, Neil Mulholland, President of the National Park Foundation, stops by for a conversation with Nick. eTown brings you all this PLUS an incredible in-person E-Chievement Award interview and presentation honoring a young couple doing their part to alleviate hunger with dignity. Tune in!

Imogen Heap
IMOGEN HEAP
Biography
(written & inspired by fans via Twitter)

"Imogen is an eccentric, innovative musician who blends aspects of the world around her into a beautiful universe of song." @Jack, founder Twitter

A Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist, who began writing music by her 13th birthday (and broke America by her 28th), an innovative singer-songwriter with a quirky and inspirational character, a tech savvy musician with an eccentric sense of style and uniquely graceful music, Imogen Heap is a profoundly English artist whose songs transcend time and place to conjure captivating digital dreamscapes of love, loss and hopefulness.

Imogen's distinct, eclectronic-style, a brilliant kaleidoscopic symphony of voices, beats, sounds and emotions - mixing beautiful lyrics with breathtaking melodies, traditional instrumentation with computers, to create a sound that's folk-hued and digital and sparks the imagination - has won her over 350,000 friends on MySpace and more than 250,000 followers on Twitter. Fans include Brian Eno, Jeff Beck and Scrubs star Zach Braff, while US chat show hosts David Letterman, Jay Leno, Carson Daly and Hollywood mega blogger, Perez Hilton, have all championed her ability, musically and physically, to transfix. Imogen is, in all senses, an EXPERIENCE.

Age 5, she crept downstairs in the middle of the night, carved her name in BIG letters on the grand piano lid and swore it wasn't her . Age 12 she learned how to layer sound with an Atari and sequencing software. Age 18 she signed her first record contract and age 20 she released her debut album, iMegaphone (an anagram of her name).

Imogen remortgaged her flat to fund her second solo album. Working almost entirely alone, 'Speak For Yourself' took Imogen exactly a year to write and produce. It was released in 2005 on her own Megaphonic label. Stunningly original and creative, incorporating everything from piano to blips and boops, carpet tubes, passing trains and a frying pan, a shimmering vehicle of electro and lustrous orchestra, the album delivered huge pop hooks, atmospheric soundscapes and lyrics to make you consider the intricacies of your own life. Therapy on a disc, a journal read aloud and set to music, this time Imogen took all she-'d learnt musically and lyrically to a whole new dimension.

Utilizing the internet to market Speak For Yourself, Imogen pioneered a new Artist/Audience relationship. She was one of the first artists to bring her music to a new audience via MySpace, iTunes, YouTube and her blog.

Imogen was nominated for Best New Artist and Best Song Written For Motion Picture for -'Cant Take It In-' at the 49th Grammy Awards in 2007 and caused quite a stir on the red carpet when she turned up wearing a lily pond themed dress complete with Gary The Grammy Frog.

After touring Speak For Yourself across Europe and America, Imogen was eager to get back to recording and start work on her third solo album, Ellipse. For inspiration, she set out on a writing trip which took her to Maui, Tasmania, China and Japan.

From the writing trip to building the studio, recording to mixing, tweaking to re-tweaking, Imogen kept fans regularly updated on the album-'s progress via Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. Partly out of love for her fans, partly to maintain her sanity, she pioneered a new kind of creative process, one that-'s open, inclusive and asks fans to participate.

All biographical information submitted by Twitter fans