About this project
Hey everyone. My name is Sara Lewis. I’m a singer/songwriter currently residing in New York City. I’ve been writing songs since I was 15 and this is my first real, big, professional recording endeavor. I’ll be taking my band up to Woodstock, NY in August to lay down the tracks. We will be recording at my favorite studio called Coldbrook Productions, run by Julie Last (http://www.coldbrookproductions.com/discography.html) -- amazing engineer who has worked with greats like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Shawn Colvin, to name a few. She’s an incredibly gifted and intuitive engineer. And then I’ll be spending the fall getting it mixed, mastered and reproduced, with hopes of an early 2012 release.
This project, to be titled “Birds Without Cages” will be a set of 10-12 songs that I’ve written over the past few years. It’s more or less a tribute to putting one’s heart out into the world, even if it’s been used and abused in the past. It’s about bravery and independence. And lots of girl feelings. I’m so excited to share these songs with my fans and hope that the stories I tell inside them help give my listeners courage and solace.
I believe 100% in all the people behind the project. The musicians, the engineers, and most importantly, the songs. I’m ecstatic to have the opportunity to share them in the form of a professionally recorded album for the first time, and I need Kickstarter to help me raise the funds to be able to do so. I’m hoping to raise at least $5,000 to get me started in all the expensive costs of doing this project.
Thanks so much for your time and consideration! Here’s to a summer of amazing music-making.
Cheers,
Sara
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Sara Lewis is a soldier of love, a musician who wears her heart on her sleeve. Her lyrics are a web of carefully woven metaphors that blend her own deliciously honest brand of story telling with the perfect amount of heartfelt sensitivity. Her voice is a throwback to a classically romantic jazz scene with hints of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, while remaining true to modern day influences like Regina Spektor, Norah Jones and Cat Power.
Her honey-voiced songs about everything from Viking helmets to eager pilots and kissing in libraries have won over the hearts of an increasing number of devoted listeners. Based out of New York City, this piano-driven singer/songwriter and performer shows incredible promise.
Against a backdrop of suburban New Jersey, Sara first started fiddling around on a piano at around age 6, two years afterwards taking up lessons and joining her first choir. She continued singing and playing for many years onward, teaching herself guitar in high school as well as experimenting with songwriting and starting her own a cappella group with her best friend. Her college years brought her to a tiny liberal arts college in Vermont where she was able to perform often and really focus on songwriting.
In June of 2010 she digitally released her first EP “Birds Without Cages”, which includes three songs recorded in a studio nestled in the woods by one of Joni Mitchell’s personal recording engineers, as well as a sweetly homemade recording of “You Belong To Me”, recorded in Sara’s bathtub. A few months later in October, Sara quietly announced the release of a live album entitled “Believe In It All” – a collection of songs recorded at her senior show at her college. Sara also received third place in American Songwriter’s Amateur Lyric Contest in December 2009.
