Heather Masse

Maine native Heather Masse is well-known to audiences as a regular guest on the NPR radio show A Prairie Home Companion, both as a solo performer and as a member of the Billboard-charting folk supergroup, The Waylin Jennys. On the show, Heather has collaborated with artists such as Elvis Costello, Wynton Marsalis, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, and Emmylou Harris. She has also performed in many venues and with other popular groups such as the bluegrass band The Wayfaring Strangers on NPR's World Cafe, and at Bostons Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops. For this concert, Heather joins forces with jazz pianist Jed Wilson. Heather and Jed met as jazz students at the New England Conservatory of Music and have been performing together for more than 10 years. Vocalist Heather Masse trained at the New England Conservatory of Music as a jazz singer and that schooling influences her approach to singing folk, pop and bluegrass, all of which she does incredibly well with a full, far-reaching alto voice. Jed Wilson has been an active performer since his teenage years in Portland, Oregon. He received a bachelor's degree in jazz performance from the New England Conservatory, where he formed a long-standing musical partnership with jazz vocalist Dominique Eade. The two have toured widely, and in 2006 released a critically acclaimed CD that appeared on many of the year's top-ten album lists.