Catching Leaves

25Nov2021Blog postart, Catching Leaves, gratitude, Thank You, Thanksgiving

Thankful

I’m feeling very grateful. Thank you for helping me usher in this season of new music. I’m really thrilled to have an album of new songs out in the world. It took a little while to get here, and I want to thank you for your patience and encouragement, for sticking with me and supporting the journey of the project all this time. I have so much gratitude for every download, stream, post, share, radio play, playlist add, cd purchase, and absolutely every single message telling me how much you’re enjoying the music. I take it all in and it means the world. To know that my music is playing a role in your life, there is nothing greater. As autumn turns to winter, I hope you find some time to rest and reflect and enjoy this moment, wherever you find yourself – a reminder I’m giving to myself too.

Wishing everyone a warm and happy Thanksgiving.

5Nov2021Blog postCatching Leaves, merch, new, New Album, new music, store

The New Album is out Today! Where to Listen, How To Buy

Catching Leaves, the new album, available now!

After more than 10 years, I’m thrilled to be able to say the words “My new album comes out today.” It’s a collection of songs that have such meaning for me. I hope you fall in love with it. The music is available now to listen, download, buy, and stream – wherever you listen to music. Click the image below.

Want a physical copy with beautiful artwork and liner notes? Click on the photo below or head to the STORE to order a CD, and I will personally mail you an album that you can touch and feel (along with a digital copy).

With Catching Leaves, Avi Wisnia returns with his poignant and long-awaited sophomore release. Produced by acclaimed bassist/conductor Ken Pendergast, the collection is a tender and intimate ode to living in the moment, to surrendering to forces beyond our control and finding peace in growth, change, and acceptance. Wisnia writes with a gentle touch, reflecting on love and loss with a soulful maturity, mixing hints of jazz, roots, and the Great American Songbook together into an organic swell that’s at once beautiful and bittersweet. The result is “a riveting collection” (Vents Magazine) that “reminds us to live in the moment. Effortlessly cinematic and well-rounded, allowing us to explore Wisnia’s vast creative abilities.” (Buzz Music). Catching Leaves is a moving, intimate album shaped by the power of human connection and community, calling to mind everyone from Rufus Wainwright and Teddy Thompson to Ron Sexsmith and Gabriel Kahane as it navigates darkness and doubt, faith and family, pain and resilience.READ MORE…

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31Oct2021Blog postBucks County, Catching Leaves, Doylestown, Facebook Live, free, gigs, Live At Home, livestream, Oscar Hammerstein, Pennsylvania

Live From Oscar Hammerstein’s House: a New Album’s Eve Concert

Avi Wisnia performs a livestream concert, live from prolific songwriter Oscar Hammerstein’s home in Doylestown PA, to celebrate the release of his new album “Catching Leaves.” Hear songs from the new album before it is released on platforms everywhere the next day. Put on your favorite autumn sweater, get cozy with a warm drink and settle in to enjoy this free concert in the luxury of your own home. Tune in from anywhere in the world! Visit the Tour Page for streaming details and link.

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17Oct2021Blog postCatching Leaves, City Winery, gigs, new, Philadelphia, tour

Announcing Catching Leaves Album Release Concert

Save the date!

Live in-person music returns with a full band concert to celebrate the new album “Catching Leaves.” Join Avi and friends in Philadelphia, Sunday evening November 28. Tickets on sale now.

GET TIX | RSVP ON FB

Americana Highways Heat Lightning Premiere Oct2021

14Oct2021Blog postAmericana Highways, blog, Catching Leaves, Heat Lightning, new, premiere, press, single

Americana Highways premieres new song “Heat Lightning”

First Listen! Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Avi Wisnia’s song “Heat Lightning,” from his pending album Catching Leaves, available everywhere on November 5.

“Heat Lightning” is Avi Wisnia on piano and vocals; Erik Sayles on electric guitar; Ken Pendergast on electric bass and electric piano; Chuck Staab on drums; and Jeremy Grenhart and Samantha Rise on background vocals. Wisnia explores the powerful force of memory and the lasting effects of the painful ones in this song. The song itself expands and rises above the tension, and lands squarely in the realm of a memorable song — and makes the good kind of memory this time.

“Heat Lightning” is about that tension you have with the people who are closest to you, the people you share a history with. Old anger and remnants of issues left unresolved can reappear at any moment. When I was a kid up at summer camp, heat lightning was this natural phenomenon that I thought I experienced a lot on those dry summer nights. And I did not realize at the time that those streaking bolts of light were really just remnants of a drifting storm far off in the distance, and not from something close at all. I like playing with the idea of the past being something that still rumbles and reverberates into the present. — Avi Wisnia

Listen to “Heat Lightning” HERE.
Check out the full feature in Americana Highways HERE.

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