The concert is the highlight of the Camden Public Library’s “Renascence Summer” series of movies, music, and Millay events celebrating 100 years since the “discovery” of Edna St. Vincent Millay at Camden’s Whitehall Inn in 1912! The series is generously supported by The First Bancorp. The concert will take place rain or shine; the rain venue is the library.
“A few years back, my mother-in-law gave me a book of poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay for my birthday,” said Liz Queler. “Never much of a poetry reader, it sat on a shelf, until one day, frustrated with a spell of writer’s block, I decided as an exercise to compose to a poem. I fetched the birthday book off the shelf, opened it at random and composed to the words on the page — and loved it, both the experience and the result. The next day I turned the page and wrote another. I soon became enthralled with the life and works of the unconventional, bohemian Millay (1892-1950). I devoured every written word by or about her — biographies, letters, plays, poems, articles — even her journals at the Library of Congress. Soon my husband Seth joined me, bringing his own beautiful and fascinating musical spin to the words. Together we’ve visited her home, walked through her woods, and together we’ve embarked on this thrilling journey we call The Edna Project.”
Hailed by Billboard Magazine as “a singer’s singer”, Liz Queler (vocals/guitar/mandolin), a native New Yorker and the daughter of renowned opera conductor Eve Queler, has performed on esteemed stages from the Newport Folk Festival to Carnegie Hall. Her voice and compositions have been heard on countless jingles as well as TV and film soundtracks.
Seth Farber (keyboards/accordion/vocals) was musical director to the late, great Odetta for the last decade, producing three CDs, two of which were nominated for Grammys. Both Liz and Seth currently tour with Grammy-nominated children’s rock band “Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could.” Along with their son, Joey, they were featured on Rosie O’Donnell’’ HBO special “A Family is a Family Is A Family.”
Liz Queler and Seth Farber are clearly lifelong professional musicians who literally grew up in the business. Liz & Seth’s eclectic folk/rock, Americana, and bluegrass style is rooted in storytelling and songwriting, bringing evocative text alive with exceptional music.
From the youngest years, Liz was on the world’s greatest stages. As the daughter of famed opera conductor Eve Queler, she grew up performing at Lincoln Center as a member of the NYC Opera Children’s Chorus, and went on as an adult to study jazz piano and guitar at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her love of songwriting led her back home to New York after Berklee, where she broke into the contemporary side of the music scene as a backup singer for Cliff Eberhardt. Over time, her star as a solo performer rose with three solo albums (one released by Palmetto records) a publishing deal with Bug Music, and numerous high profile performances at venues including the Newport Folk Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival, The Bottom Line (NYC), and both Carnegie Hall and Dallas Symphony Hall as a soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s MASS.
Together, Seth & Liz are just as formidable as they are apart. In addition to raising Joey and keeping up with commercial and TV/film composing jobs, they contribute to each other’s solo projects and the projects of several fellow musicians in NYC.
“An eclectic, sublimely musical melding of folk, bluegrass, rock, and jazz with humor and great harmonies. Liz and Seth blew the full house audience away.” — The Chronicle Weekend October 06, 2011
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