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Hi! I'm Lainey Schooltree, and like other personal websites, this one is egregiously neglected. If you're looking for the most updated bio for publication, shoot me an email.
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Lainey Schooltree is a composer, performer and producer out of Boston, Massachusetts. A classically trained musician and vaudeville performer, humor and tragedy inform each other equally in her work. She explores the intersection of the new and old, always striving for the timeless in sound and theme. Her art rock band Schooltree fuses literature and music to create something uniquely accessible, visceral and profound. As one half of music comedy duo The Steamy Bohemians, she also co-founded acclaimed variety show Jerkus Circus, a local cabaret series that helped usher in a wave of neo-vaudevillian performance in Boston.
Lainey spent the last four years writing, recording, and rehearsing a metaphysical fantasy rock opera for Schooltree. Heterotopia is a symphonic odyssey through a dystopian dreamworld: a 100-minute double record in the tradition of ambitious concept albums like The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Quadrophenia. Schooltree was awarded a Live Arts Boston grant from The Boston Foundation for live performances of Heterotopia in 2017.
Now for the third person:
Lainey Schooltree is a composer, performer and producer out of Boston, Massachusetts. A classically trained musician and vaudeville performer, humor and tragedy inform each other equally in her work. She explores the intersection of the new and old, always striving for the timeless in sound and theme. Her art rock band Schooltree fuses literature and music to create something uniquely accessible, visceral and profound. As one half of music comedy duo The Steamy Bohemians, she also co-founded acclaimed variety show Jerkus Circus, a local cabaret series that helped usher in a wave of neo-vaudevillian performance in Boston.
Lainey spent the last four years writing, recording, and rehearsing a metaphysical fantasy rock opera for Schooltree. Heterotopia is a symphonic odyssey through a dystopian dreamworld: a 100-minute double record in the tradition of ambitious concept albums like The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Quadrophenia. Schooltree was awarded a Live Arts Boston grant from The Boston Foundation for live performances of Heterotopia in 2017.
With its harmonic inventiveness and timbral expressiveness, Heterotopia nods as much to Schooltree’s classical loves — Debussy, Bartók, Satie — as her prog rock influences. But more than anything it reflects her exacting musical vision, something she says she has possessed since she was a child." | NPR
Here we have an artist who obviously doesn't know the meaning of the word compromise and as such has produced an album that is rich in both scope and vision." | Glorydaze
Schooltree's music embodies the essence of Art Rock, with catchy melodies, sophisticated arrangements, lush instrumentation, and a wide array of influences that - besides classic prog - include opera, Broadway musicals and baroque pop. Lainey's dazzling vocals deliver lyrics that are humorous and thought-provoking at the same time. Highly recommended to fans of Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Supertramp, Queen and Roxy Music.” | Progarchives.com
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