March 5. It’s been just over a year since Chronogram featured local Natalie Merchant. At that time the alt-rock queen had just released the ambitious Leave Your Sleep , her long-anticipated studio return, and was gearing up to promote it. This concert in the Richard B. Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater benefits the Bard College Conservatory of Music and sees her performing tunes from the double album and beloved older hits, while backed by the conservatory orchestra led by conductor James Bagwell. 8pm. $60, $100, $200. Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu; (845) 758-7900.

This article appears in March 2011.

Peter Aaron is the arts editor for Chronogram.

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