On her own; Suzanne Vega goes independent, intimate with ‘Close-Up’ series
No one is immune to the melancholy feelings that crop up in a terribly sagging economy.Not even Suzanne Vega, the critically acclaimed, commercially successful and award-winning songwriter who’ll perform Sunday in Bend (see “If you go”).On the phone from a hotel room in Santa Barbara, Calif., she cautioned that she doesn’t want to be “too dramatic” about getting dropped from her record mark, Blue …

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Suzanne Vega, Musician
Photo by Mary Rozzi You can’t get much more New York than Suzanne Vega . A lifelong resident of the Upper West Side, she’s an alum not only of Barnard, but the High School for the Performing Arts and P.S. 161. She’s been New York’s ambassador to the world of folk music since her self-titled debut album twenty-five years ago. She immortalized Morningside Heights with the unbearably catchy “Tom’s …

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