When Winter Comes CD Release featuring Maud Hixson and Rick Carlson

Classic Holiday Swing

CD release of the album “When Winter Comes”, filled with classic and lesser-known seasonal and holiday songs. Featuring songwriters from Irving Berlin to Mel Tormé to Vince Guaraldi. Hear songs such as “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and “Sleigh Ride”.

Maud Hixson: Vocals

Rick Carlson: Piano

Hailed as “gently virtuosic” (All About Jazz), Maud Hixson is a devoted exponent of great songs, ranging from the classic Great American Songbook to the often unsung or forgotten compositions awaiting rediscovery. Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Maud made her Guthrie Theater debut in the Noel Coward revue Coward’s Women, also appearing in Park Square Theater’s The Soul of Gershwin. Her recording Permanent Moonlight: Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett is devoted to the music of her mentor, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, and earned a 2024 Bistro Award. Rick Carlson taught himself to play the piano by studying the vast works of Count Basie and Duke Ellington and capitalizing on a long string of happy accidents. He has been the pianist for the Wolverines Big Band since 1980.

“Her vocal style is so warm, intimate and compelling–it’s clear that she cares about the words and telling the story, with clarity and without artifice–practically a lost art these days.” –Michael Feinstein

www.maudhixson.com