Thanks to singer-songwriter-artist-activist Natalie Merchant, students from one dozen Chicago Public Schools are experiencing ...

Natalie Merchant has always resisted definition, marching (or dancing) to the beat of her own drummer, so to speak. Now, decades after her stint as the singer for 10,000 Maniacs — and her first ...

— blues singer? Maybe it’s a little premature for that kind of label, but for those who remember Merchant solely as the socially conscious lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs, her latest project, Motherland ...