Special Guest Phillipa Soo to Join Shaina Taub at Joe's Pub

Award-winning singer-songwriter Shaina Taub will independently release her second full-length studio solo album, Die Happy on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The album will debut digitally exclusively on Bandcamp in May and will be released widely on all digital platforms later this year. Die Happy is the follow-up to Taub's debut album Visitors, released in 2015.

Taub will be previewing songs from the new album at her Joe's Pub show on April 23. Special guest Philipa Soo has just been announced. Tickets for all shows are available at joespub.org.

"This album contains the most personal and most political songs I've ever recorded. I wrote them over a time of great change in the country and my own life," Taub said of the album. "Die Happy is both a reckoning with adulthood and a celebration of love in the face of fear."

The record features twelve original songs, ranging from protest anthems to intimate ballads. Taub co- produced Die Happy with bandmate Mike Brun and Dean Sharenow of Steel Cut Audio, at Vibromonk Studios in Brooklyn. The tracks feature her longtime core band Brun, Hiroyuki Matsuura and David Farrell Melton as well as an ensemble of horn, wind and string players and a large choir comprised of friends and collaborators.

The track listing for Die Happy is as follows:

• If I Die Before You
• Huddled Masses
• Where Are The Grown-Ups?
• She Persisted
• Family Plan
• Holy Old City
• Fortnight
• 2 Captains
• Our Solitude
• Your Old Guitar
• Still I Will Love
• Inevitable

Shaina Taub possesses rare fluency - creative, artistic and cultural- that gives her music wide-reaching appeal. A versatile vocalist and accomplished pianist/accordionist, her unique sound crosses many genres, cultivating a vibrant medley of soul, jazz and gospel through her humorous and heart-rending songs. NPR says "Taub's music is an infectious blend of Billy Joel's piano-driven pop, Aretha's soul and Regina Spektor's whimsy, with an imaginative lyricism all her own." The Huffington Post raves "I have seen the future of the Great American Songbook, and her name is Shaina Taub. At times like the ones we live in today, when someone like Taub comes along, you have to be grateful." The New York Times describes Taub as among "a breed of performers who, apart from being artists, are gravitational forces around whom others cluster like filings to a magnet."

In addition to her work as a singer/songwriter, Taub is one of musical theater's most promising new voices. The winner of a Jonathan Larson Grant and a Fred Ebb Award, Taub will star in her original musical adaptation Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, returning for an encore run this summer in The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park season, as part of their groundbreaking Public Works initiative. This follows up an acclaimed run of her adaptation of As You Like It last summer, featured on the New York Times Best Theater of 2017. She also appeared in the original Off Broadway casts of both The Great Comet and Hadestown. Her songs have been performed by Broadway luminaries Audra McDonald, Jonathan Groff, Sutton Foster, Phillipa Soo and many more.

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