by Kathryn Mann

Maude Maggart (right) and me (left)

There are a few great singers who truly sing from their soul, but only one I have experienced who will touch yours. Her name is Maude Maggart, and she is labeled a cabaret singer because she primarily performs American pop standards from the 1930s in intimate and sophisticated dinner clubs in the world's most dynamic cities.

Maggart is actually a troubadour in its finest tradition. As a very young at heart, thirty-four year old, she is preserving the traditions and folklore of the finest period of American music, interspersing it with her amazing life story and contemporary songs that combine to transcend time and place. As someone six years younger than Maude, but also with a lifelong passion for jazz and popular vocalists of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, I have found that she is the only contemporary voice able to render this great songbook in a way that can make it come alive to people born in the last thirty years.

Her voice is angelic, mystical, and purely authentic. After hearing her rendition of any great song, it is unlikely you will ever be satisfied with another version of that song. In live performance, her music, presence, and storytelling combine to create a universal poetry that is the nearest to human perfection I can imagine. She weaves stories about her life, family, and search for love that thematically coincide with everyone's quest in this world: to find love, harmony, and come to terms with our childhood.

Go to CDBaby, Amazon, or iTunes to purchase her music, and if you can, see her perform live. There is no more ennobling experience than listening to Maude Maggart.

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