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Victoria Bouffard

Broadalbin, New York, United States | SELF

Broadalbin, New York, United States | SELF
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"Emily Grant, Glove Theater Executive Director"

Glove Theatre Executive Director Emily Grant said she was introduced to Bouffard at a one-day music festival in April.

“Her style is rooted strongly in the folk tradition and her music is well-crafted and soulful, and she’s a thoroughly entertaining stage performer,” Grant said. “She was an asset to our festival and I was thrilled that she was back at the Glove to open for [the band] Run Run Run.”

Grant said she was as happy to have Bouffard at the Glove as Bouffard was to be there.

“I hope we have the opportunity to host [Bouffard] again and often — she’s a wonderful example of the excellent ‘518 talent’ that can be found in the region and that the Glove hopes [to] encourage and promote.” - The Leader-Herald, Gloversville, NY


"Emily Grant, Glove Theater Executive Director"

Glove Theatre Executive Director Emily Grant said she was introduced to Bouffard at a one-day music festival in April.

“Her style is rooted strongly in the folk tradition and her music is well-crafted and soulful, and she’s a thoroughly entertaining stage performer,” Grant said. “She was an asset to our festival and I was thrilled that she was back at the Glove to open for [the band] Run Run Run.”

Grant said she was as happy to have Bouffard at the Glove as Bouffard was to be there.

“I hope we have the opportunity to host [Bouffard] again and often — she’s a wonderful example of the excellent ‘518 talent’ that can be found in the region and that the Glove hopes [to] encourage and promote.” - The Leader-Herald, Gloversville, NY


"Dave Michaels"

You make some gorgeous music! - WEXT


"Dave Michaels"

You make some gorgeous music! - WEXT


"Chris Wienk"

We LOVE your CD! - WEXT


"Chris Wienk"

We LOVE your CD! - WEXT


"Bill Winans"

Let me congratulate you on the album. The tracks are all extraordinary, your songwriting excellent and the instrumentation and production definitely compliment your vocals. - WEXT


"Bill Winans"

Let me congratulate you on the album. The tracks are all extraordinary, your songwriting excellent and the instrumentation and production definitely compliment your vocals. - WEXT


"Leader-Herald article by Richard Nilsen"

http://www.leaderherald.com/page/content.detail/id/500589.html

Someone turning on 97.7 FM radio may well hear songs by Broadalbin native Victoria Bouffard from her “All the Reasons” CD.

Bouffard isn’t about to quit her day job as a buyer with Fortitech in Schenectady where she buys vitamin and mineral powders, and packaging. But she has played her music at venues from the annual Falconridge folk music event to local gigs at Fulton Book Co. and the Glove Theatre in Gloversville and Java Junction in Broadalbin.

She was taking a week off from work to do some songwriting, hopefully for a second CD, she said.

“I’m working on some new material which I do plan to record at home,” she said. “I’m much less focused on playing out these days, and more interested in what I can do with recordings - online, radio and looking into film and TV.”

She said she was happy her album was getting air play.

“Fortunately, they like me at 97.7,” Bouffard said Feb. 19 at Fulton Book Co.

A 1984 Broadalbin High School graduate, Bouffard was well-known in the area for her music as a flutist. She said she always wanted to be a singer.

“I could never figure out how to accompany myself in a way that I felt was interesting enough to listen to,” Bouffard said. “After college, I didn’t play anything or sing for a long time.”

She said she learned how to approach the guitar differently in 1997, mostly by going to see folk singer Greg Greenway a lot.

“That fall, I started writing new songs and playing at open mic nights,” she said.

The first open-mic she went to was after a Greenway concert in North Adams, Mass.

“I sang ‘Watching You Drown’ and a Bob Dylan song,” she said. “After that, I became a regular at Caffe Lena [in Saratoga Springs] and the Eighth Step [in Albany].”

Bouffard said she wanted to finish a CD by the time she turned 40 in 2006.

“I have recording equipment at home and know a lot of people who have done a whole project themselves, so I was trying, but my recordings just weren’t coming out right, not up to my standards,” she said.

Bouffard said she is her own worst critic and that she still winces at parts of her CD that professionals at the recording studio where she put down the tracks say are fine.

“[Musician] David Goodrich worked on many of the best-sounding albums I know,” she said. “Especially those of Peter Mulvey and Chris Smither, but I never would have thought about approaching him.”

Bouffard said she’d met Goodrich several times over the years and he knew about her songs. When he was at Caffe Lena in April 2006 with Peter Mulvey, she took a minute to say hello.

“I told him I was having difficulty making my own recordings and he told me I should call him, that he could work with me,” she said. “We kept in touch and found some time to schedule it, and next thing I knew, I was at Signature Sounds working with Goody and Mark Thayer, who recorded most of those same best-sounding albums.”

Goodrich said it was unusual to have an artist be able to both play and sing “in the same take” when recording a CD. He said he found Bouffard easy to work with and the CD came together very quickly.

Goodrich told how he came to produce Bouffard’s CD in a phone interview from California.

“I was playing in Saratoga at Caffe Lena with Peter Mulvey and met [Bouffard] outside afterwards,” Goodrich said. “She asked if she could send a tape of her songs. You never know what you’ll hear on those tapes, but it was good. So I told her, ‘I can help you out.’”

Goodrich said he asked her out to his recording studio in western Massachusetts.

“When we sat down to play, she had a nice vibe,” Goodrich said. “She played very well with a great sense of time and feel.”

Goodrich said soundmixing and recording at his studio all took only five days. “It went pretty quick,” he said

He said Bouffard “sings very well in real time. The CD is all live.”

Bouffard said her primary influences are Canadian artist Bruce Cockburn and Ellis Paul.

“I do love performing,” she said. “The bigger the audience, the better.”

She said she would like to be able to play her music full-time, “but realistically it’s not likely to happen.”

Big moments for Bouffard include playing at the Glove Theater.

“After all, I saw every Disney movie in circulation there as a kid,” she said.

Glove Theatre Executive Director Emily Grant said she was introduced to Bouffard at a one-day music festival in April.

“Her style is rooted strongly in the folk tradition and her music is well-crafted and soulful, and she’s a thoroughly entertaining stage performer,” Grant said. “She was an asset to our festival and I was thrilled that she was back at the Glove to open for [the band] Run Run Run.”

Grant said she was as happy to have Bouffard at the Glove as Bouffard was to be there.

“I hope we have the opportunity to host [Bouffard] again and often — she’s a wonderful example of the excellent ‘518 talent’ t - The Leader-Herald, Gloversville, NY


"Leader-Herald article by Richard Nilsen"

http://www.leaderherald.com/page/content.detail/id/500589.html

Someone turning on 97.7 FM radio may well hear songs by Broadalbin native Victoria Bouffard from her “All the Reasons” CD.

Bouffard isn’t about to quit her day job as a buyer with Fortitech in Schenectady where she buys vitamin and mineral powders, and packaging. But she has played her music at venues from the annual Falconridge folk music event to local gigs at Fulton Book Co. and the Glove Theatre in Gloversville and Java Junction in Broadalbin.

She was taking a week off from work to do some songwriting, hopefully for a second CD, she said.

“I’m working on some new material which I do plan to record at home,” she said. “I’m much less focused on playing out these days, and more interested in what I can do with recordings - online, radio and looking into film and TV.”

She said she was happy her album was getting air play.

“Fortunately, they like me at 97.7,” Bouffard said Feb. 19 at Fulton Book Co.

A 1984 Broadalbin High School graduate, Bouffard was well-known in the area for her music as a flutist. She said she always wanted to be a singer.

“I could never figure out how to accompany myself in a way that I felt was interesting enough to listen to,” Bouffard said. “After college, I didn’t play anything or sing for a long time.”

She said she learned how to approach the guitar differently in 1997, mostly by going to see folk singer Greg Greenway a lot.

“That fall, I started writing new songs and playing at open mic nights,” she said.

The first open-mic she went to was after a Greenway concert in North Adams, Mass.

“I sang ‘Watching You Drown’ and a Bob Dylan song,” she said. “After that, I became a regular at Caffe Lena [in Saratoga Springs] and the Eighth Step [in Albany].”

Bouffard said she wanted to finish a CD by the time she turned 40 in 2006.

“I have recording equipment at home and know a lot of people who have done a whole project themselves, so I was trying, but my recordings just weren’t coming out right, not up to my standards,” she said.

Bouffard said she is her own worst critic and that she still winces at parts of her CD that professionals at the recording studio where she put down the tracks say are fine.

“[Musician] David Goodrich worked on many of the best-sounding albums I know,” she said. “Especially those of Peter Mulvey and Chris Smither, but I never would have thought about approaching him.”

Bouffard said she’d met Goodrich several times over the years and he knew about her songs. When he was at Caffe Lena in April 2006 with Peter Mulvey, she took a minute to say hello.

“I told him I was having difficulty making my own recordings and he told me I should call him, that he could work with me,” she said. “We kept in touch and found some time to schedule it, and next thing I knew, I was at Signature Sounds working with Goody and Mark Thayer, who recorded most of those same best-sounding albums.”

Goodrich said it was unusual to have an artist be able to both play and sing “in the same take” when recording a CD. He said he found Bouffard easy to work with and the CD came together very quickly.

Goodrich told how he came to produce Bouffard’s CD in a phone interview from California.

“I was playing in Saratoga at Caffe Lena with Peter Mulvey and met [Bouffard] outside afterwards,” Goodrich said. “She asked if she could send a tape of her songs. You never know what you’ll hear on those tapes, but it was good. So I told her, ‘I can help you out.’”

Goodrich said he asked her out to his recording studio in western Massachusetts.

“When we sat down to play, she had a nice vibe,” Goodrich said. “She played very well with a great sense of time and feel.”

Goodrich said soundmixing and recording at his studio all took only five days. “It went pretty quick,” he said

He said Bouffard “sings very well in real time. The CD is all live.”

Bouffard said her primary influences are Canadian artist Bruce Cockburn and Ellis Paul.

“I do love performing,” she said. “The bigger the audience, the better.”

She said she would like to be able to play her music full-time, “but realistically it’s not likely to happen.”

Big moments for Bouffard include playing at the Glove Theater.

“After all, I saw every Disney movie in circulation there as a kid,” she said.

Glove Theatre Executive Director Emily Grant said she was introduced to Bouffard at a one-day music festival in April.

“Her style is rooted strongly in the folk tradition and her music is well-crafted and soulful, and she’s a thoroughly entertaining stage performer,” Grant said. “She was an asset to our festival and I was thrilled that she was back at the Glove to open for [the band] Run Run Run.”

Grant said she was as happy to have Bouffard at the Glove as Bouffard was to be there.

“I hope we have the opportunity to host [Bouffard] again and often — she’s a wonderful example of the excellent ‘518 talent’ t - The Leader-Herald, Gloversville, NY


Discography

"Mystery", single with WEXT airplay, produced by Phil Henry, July 2013

"Time Flies", single with WEXT airplay, recorded by Gail Sparlin, June 2013

WEXT 518 sessions, performances and interviews, 2012

Theme song for Matt Paxton's podcast, 5 Decisions Away, debut on episode #14, 2012

“All The Reasons”, 2006, Produced by David "Goody" Goodrich, Recorded at Signature Sounds Studio by Mark Thayer, tracks on WEXT and WEQX

"Love Song" with Lowen & Navarro appeared on their fanclub cd and a WPYX cd, 2001

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Bio

Victoria’s first album, “All the Reasons”, was recorded by Mark Thayer in August 2006 at Signature Sounds Studio with producer David “Goody” Goodrich.

Several years and life challenges later, the music has changed and deepened, and the influences woven more tightly. Victoria moved into the house where she grew up, and rediscovered her original influences, resulting in a trip in a songwriting time machine. Which, as all songwriters know, is a pretty fantastic place to be.

Victoria's latest work is a combination of original songs of new perspective and sound, and some Jimmy Webb songs she's enjoying introducing to a new audience. There are a number of digital singles planned, with a second physical disc to come.

Other influences include Peter Mulvey, Bruce Cockburn, Ellis Paul, Lowen & Navarro, Shawn Colvin, Brad Roberts.

Victoria left Vance Gilbert speechless at a Falcon Ridge Folk Festival performance critique workshop playing "Thankful". She has been featured in the Open Mic Finals at the Towne Crier and the Night Eagle, and opened and headlined at Caffe Lena. “Ominously Happy” received airplay on WEQX, and several songs from "All the Reasons" have been featured on WEXT, as well as exclusive in-studio performances of new originals and covers. She performed as a finalist in the Solarfest 2007 Songwriter Showcase. Recent highlights include her second appearance at AJ Mahal House Concerts, opening for Dan Navarro.