Kate Ferber Was Born To Carry On The Music of Laura Nyro

This evening I went to see Kate Ferber's one woman show "One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro" at The Oberon in Cambridge. I actually saw the show at the same venue in December 2015 and wrote about it in conjunction with Billy Childs' "Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro".

Ferber's set was pretty much identical to the one she performed the first time around. She alternated between songs (mostly from Eli & The Thirteenth Confession) and stories from Nyro fans she's met over the years including a Russian woman who learned English from Nyro's songs, a woman who met Nyro on the streets of New York City who ended up in Nyro's Upper East Side apartment where they got high and ate tuna fish and a Texas dog breeder who thought Nyro is still alive surrounded by German Shepherds.

When it comes to the music, Ferber has only her voice and the piano and, like Nyro, it is all she needs. Ferber has been passionate about Nyro and her music since she was in grade school. When her passion began, Nyro had already been dead for more than five years. In a sense when Nyro died and was gone, Kate Ferber was born to carry on her music. Have a listen below.