Eyes towards the horizon, looking ahead to exciting things in 2024!
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Happy New Year, can’t wait to see you in it!
It’s never too late to begin again. Listen to my song New Year, the soundtrack to new beginnings.
Proud to announce that PHILLY SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND will now be a monthly concert series! After a pandmemic-hiatus we are back with a new slate of songwriters at a new venue!
Kick off the Fall Season with this incredible line up of singers and songwriters. September artists: Brittany Ann Tranbaugh, Aaron Nathans, Buddy Mondlock and Avi Wisnia.
Come experience a unique showcase of incredible songs, storytelling, collaboration and community. Avi & Aaron host the monthly concert in the round where 4 talented songwriters take turns performing an eclectic variety of songs. The artists reveal the stories behind their songs, while also speaking to the unique perspective that comes with having strong connections to the Philadelphia music scene. Presented by the Philadelphia Folksong Society.
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…
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.
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.