Natalie Merchant 's haunting voice with her band, 10,000 Maniacs, will go down in history. And in 2026, the talented singer is still making history.

CHICAGO — Do you remember Mother Goose? Are you familiar with the nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Pretty Bird?” What about “The Cuckoo”? Thanks to singer-songwriter-artist-activist Natalie Merchant, ...

There were weird vibes all around at Natalie Merchant's sold-out show Wednesday night, and they weren't all caused by the weather.--- The lightning, rain and clouds at Red Butte... The lightning, rain ...

"Erik and I love playing our duo shows. We can be so stealth and spontaneous when it’s just the two of us. We read each other so well after all these years,” Merchant says. Over her forty-year career, ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Natalie Merchant's Autumn Acoustic Tour will stop at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center as it swings through the Northeast. The folk-rock singer-songwriter, who last performed at ...

Being that we’re neck-deep in the Indie-Rock Reunion Era, I’m shocked that singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant hasn’t yet gotten back together with 10,000 Maniacs – the New York band she rose to fame ...

The gauntlet had been thrown. So just as Merchant recruited fans who recounted how “Tigerlily” had been important to them 20 years ago, I decided to recruit some Natalie Merchant fans who also happen ...

Natalie Merchant has always resisted definition, marching (or dancing) to the beat of her own drummer, so to speak. Now, decades after her stint as the singer for 10,000 Maniacs — and her first ...

— blues singer? Maybe it’s a little premature for that kind of label, but for those who remember Merchant solely as the socially conscious lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs, her latest project, Motherland ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Vanaver Caravan will honor the legacy of its late co-founder, Bill Vanaver, with a special show featuring several performers, including Natalie Merchant, on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 4 p.m ...

Natalie Merchant is running a little bit late, her publicist tells me. In fact, she has an engagement at her daughter's school that has run just a few minutes past schedule. But she'll be calling me ...

10,000 Maniacs presented one of the greatest removes from the insinuations of their band name and the actual music that they made. This makes it understandable that their breakthrough single veered so ...