mary fahl mauch chunk opera house 11 21 2015

They were very good and that feeling never left me.”

Emil played me a few songs, and I knew the minute I heard those songs that my voice fit perfectly. They had been a couple since high school, and they had written some songs together. “I met Julie, and she invited me to her birthday party, and we got to know each other, and she asked me what I really wanted to do, and I told her I was a singer,” Fahl says.

October Project formed shortly after Fahl, who is known for her contralto voice, met songwriter Julie Flanders in New York, who then introduced her to Emil Adler in the summer of 1989. In addition to October Project’s 1993 self-titled album, which featured the songs “Bury My Lovely” and “Return To Me,” and its 1995 follow-up “Falling Farther In,” Fahl has recorded original tunes, which vary stylistically from rock to classical, a reimagining of the Pink Floyd landmark album “The Dark Side of the Moon,” as well as cinematic songs and operatic arias. Fahl, who now says playing solo has made her a better performer, will prove just that on Saturday when she performs at The Acorn Theater in a show she describes as a retrospective of her eclectic career.

Mary fahl mauch chunk opera house 11 21 2015