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Claudia Schmidt sings songs that ease the anger and hurt of good love gone bad.
Claudia Schmidt sings songs that invite a child to skip and dance in a circle of spring sunshine.
Claudia Schmidt sings songs for gazing dreamily at mountains deco* rated with the white blossoms of dogwood and the sharp emerald green of new leaves.
And “when Claudia sings a song, it stays sung,” as Garrison Keillor, creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion, put it.
This Saturday night, Ms. Schmidt will be singing at the Gay Street Theater in Washington, her performance sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community.
Her style doesn’t pigeonhole easily. She’s the next generation of the traditional folk musicians but she melds and mixes that genre with jazz, blues and pop to create a new acoustical music. In concert, she stamps old standards from Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer and Tom Waits as her own, making listeners forget that the familiar favorites were ever sung any other way.
But the real show stoppers are her original compositions, destined to rank with the classics a decade or two from now. She draws on her years in the rural Midwest for stories of love, loss, humor and compassion. She can stun with an a cappella rendition of “Love is the Strongest Thing,” as she uses her voice with gospel fervor to build an emotional intensity rarely reached in acoustical music. Changing the audience’s mood at will, she’ll take sarcastic bites with “Hip to be Homeless,” and then soothe with a piece of pure poetry.
She swaps instruments to suit the time, going from 12-string guitar
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