Aoife O'Donovan will play Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' at Harvard’s Sanders Theater on March 17.
When Aoife O’Donovan was growing up in Newton, she wished she was not named Aoife. “Like any child of the ‘80s or ‘90s,” she says, “I wanted a name like Kristin or Kelly or Karen. I think anybody who had a slightly weird name wanted their name to be like Donna or somebody from ‘90210.’ That’s truly generational.”
After graduating high school, O’Donovan moved to Boston to attend New England Conservatory at the urging of her music teacher, Richard Travers. She later moved to Brooklyn and currently resides in Orlando, Florida with her husband, Orlando Philharmonic conductor and cellist Eric Jacobsen, and their daughter Ivy Jo.
Twenty-three years ago, O’Donovan says, she entered a program called Contemporary Improvisation with a handful of undergrads – “very niche, a sub-set of the jazz department, the fringes of music. CI, as it was known then. was a place I learned so many valuable skills and gained a lot of confidence as a musician. I listened to a lot of music I never would have otherwise. It definitely gave me a lot of tools that I’ve kept in my toolbox over the last couple of decades.
As to “Nebraska,” she performed it once in 2011 “on a whim at a residency in a tiny room, probably for, like, 40 people.” When the pandemic and lockdown struck, O’Donovan – isolated like everyone – decided to revisit “Nebraska” and did a livestream, subsequently releasing audio from the it. Springsteen recorded the songs as demos and intended to bring in his E Street Band to flesh them out."I think what makes them compelling is not just the raw four-track recordings, but what he’s singing about, the sort of sadness and the loneliness about these people who are living in the margins, dealing with these American problems,” says O'Donovan.
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