Natalie is the featured guest on Radio New Zealand’s program Sunday Morning with Susana Lei’ataua. Listen now at this link.

Natalie l’artista della settimana di domenica, a cura della redazione musicale Niccolò Vecchia. Ascolta ora a questo link.

"Met haar nieuwe album Keep Your Courage heeft de New Yorkse singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant een nieuw meesterwerk toegevoegd aan haar toch al rijke oeuvre." —Dick Hovenga. Bekijk hier het volledige artikel.

"Cantautrice, mamma, attivista a favore delle donne e dell’infanzia, un tempo front woman dei 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant è una voce e un personaggio di straordinaria intensità.” —Piergiorgio Pardo. Leggi l'articolo completo qui.

Natalie speaks to Sarfraz Manzoor of The Guardian about her career and new album, Keep Your Courage. You can read the full article here.

Natalie and Abena Koomson-Davis team up with director Matthew Shattuck and cinematographer Andrew Pulaski of Machine Street Projects to release a music video for the song “Big Girls” from her new album, Keep Your Courage.

Natalie spends two hours as guest DJ on Radio Woodstock WDST with a playlist full of female artists spanning 90 years and 20 countries.

Tony Clayton-Lea discusses patience and resilience during the pandemic, the music of the Irish band LANKUM, and the conservative Supreme Court with Natalie for The Irish Times.

Keep Your Courage, Natalie’s long-awaited ninth solo studio album is released today on Nonesuch Records!

Voix parmi les plus émouvantes d’Amérique, la discrète étoile du folk-rock américain brise un silence de neuf ans avec un album dédié aux peines de cœur, nourri par la poésie de Walt Whitman. Entretien.

Natalie speaks to Paste Online’s Tony Lanham about the collection of songs contained in Keep Your Courage.

Natalie joins NPR Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe for an Easter Sunday morning chat about Joan Didion’s sunglasses, platonic and romantic love, meeting Abena-Koomson Davis, singing with the National Symphony, and not being recognized at the grocery store.

Natalie’s in-depth conversation with journalist Mike Sacks is The New Yorker Interview this week.

Natalie works with director Matthew Shattuck and cinematographer Andrew Pulaski of Machine Street Projects to release a new music video for the song “Tower of Babel” from her new album, Keep Your Courage.

BBC Radio presenter Samira Ahmen of Front Row speaks to Natalie about songwriting, love, passion, retrospection, mythology, harmony, tolerance, communication and the wisdom of older women.

In anticipation of the release of her forthcoming album, Natalie and Abena Koomson-Davis team up with director Matthew Shattuck and cinematographer Andrew Pulaski of Machine Street Projects to release a music video for the song “Come On, Aphrodite” from Keep Your Courage.

In anticipation of the April 14th release of Keep Your Courage, film editor Robert Edridge-Waks has created a lyric video for “Come On, Aphrodite.” This first featured track is a duet sung by Abena Koomson-Davis and Natalie. Photograph of the Aphrodite sculpture is provided by the kind permission from The British Museum.

The Library of Congress has announced Natalie’s appointment by Senate majority leader, Charles Schumer to the American Folklife Center board of trustees of along with MacArthur Fellow Martha González and community archiving scholar Ricardo L. Punzalanhave.

Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlives of Pop Stars, a new book by Nick Duerden, examines fame and its aftermath through interviews with: Bob Geldof, Robbie Williams, Roisin Murphy, Stewart Copeland, Billy Bragg, Joan Armatrading, Tanya Donelly, Tim Booth, Bill Drummond, Rufus Wainwright, David Gray, and Justin Hawkins, and…Natalie Merchant.