Ebony Buckle
The wonderful Ebony Buckle returns to The Pheasantry on May 25th as Rachael Sage’s special guest, bringing her unique brand of glitz and glamour to the show. Ebony has been entertaining audiences up and down the country this year with her beautiful, kaleidoscopic music and supporting some great artists such as Focus, Solstice, Life Signs and Ren Harvieu. Ebony will be opening the show with a very special acoustic set filled with songs that will feed your imagination and transport you to other worlds.
Rachel Sage
A soulful vocalist and innovative multi-instrumentalist, NYC singer/songwriter and producer Rachael Sage has earned a loyal following for her dynamic piano playing, delicate guitar work, and improvisational audience interaction.
Sage has shared stages with Beth Hart, Howard Jones, Imelda May, Judy Collins, Shawn Colvin, Marc Cohn, Jamie Cullum, The Animals and Ani DiFranco. She has brought two critically-acclaimed shows to the Edinburgh Fringe and received numerous songwriting awards including The John Lennon Songwriting Contest (Grand Prize) and six Independent Music Awards. Her songs have appeared on MTV, HBO, and the “Fame” soundtrack among others. Sage is also a visual artist and former ballet dancer who performed with the New York City Ballet. She is additionally a philanthropic advocate who has raised money for a wide range of causes, including WHY Hunger, American Refugee Committee, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital and National Network For Youth (NN4Y).
Sage’s 2020 album Character yielded the Billboard-charting single "Blue Sky Days"; her side project Poetica, an adventurous fusion of poetry with jazz, Americana, and classical musical elements in the vein of Leonard Cohen and Laurie Anderson, debuted in October 2021. Her latest single, "Revelation Ground" is out now on MPress/Universal/Virgin. A new full-length album, The Other Side is due in summer 2023.
