2025 Competition Entry:
Wedgewood Blue by Tracey Yarad
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Pop
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Performer(s)
Tracey Yarad piano/voice, Zach Brock, violin, Josh Dion, drums, Tony Scherr, bass, Luca Benedetti guitar
Description
This song is the final song in my musical memoir, it is hopeful and tells the story of me going off to New York on my own and meeting a younger man by chance and starting a very special romance that heals me from my devastating divorce.
Bio
Australia-born, New York-based Tracey Yarad is a pianist and singer-songwriter with jazz sensibilities. Her career has taken her from touring Australia with her original music and having a Top 40 single in the ’90s, to a seven-year residency singing in 5-star hotels in Japan, to running her own music school for 18 years in the Blue Mountains of Australia, to New York.
Blessed with a soulful, incredibly beautiful instrument and a talent for composing heartfelt and evocative songs, Tracey has produced multiple projects since relocating to New York City, performing at the 55 Bar, Soapbox Gallery, the Bitter End, Birdland, among others. She has collaborated with Grammy-nominated Chilean vocal star Claudia Acuna, Grammy-winning Jon Cowherd and avant garde saxophonist Dave Binney. Her duo performance with pianist Jim Ridl, ‘Lost in Translation’ (featuring stories and songs from her seven years as a hotel singer in Japan) was flagged by the New Yorker’s award-winning journalist Steve Futterman, who wrote, “If demanding experience leads to hard-won wisdom, Yarad and Ridl will have much to impart.”
In 2024 she took her her one-woman-show All These Pretty Things to the Edinburgh Fringe, a musical memoir based on her own experience of her 23 year marriage and it’s shocking demise. The show has received rave reviews and is touring extensivley in Australia and the UK in 2025. “Breathtakingly honest and gorgeously sung songs on the themes of loss and abandonment, and the restorative power of music and love.” – Broadway World
As part of her re-invention in her new life in NYC she has added jazz photographer to her list of professional accomplishments, and is photographer of choice for many of New York’s leading jazz musicians. Her work has appeared in Downbeat, Guitar Player, and Drum Scene magazines.
Blessed with a soulful, incredibly beautiful instrument and a talent for composing heartfelt and evocative songs, Tracey has produced multiple projects since relocating to New York City, performing at the 55 Bar, Soapbox Gallery, the Bitter End, Birdland, among others. She has collaborated with Grammy-nominated Chilean vocal star Claudia Acuna, Grammy-winning Jon Cowherd and avant garde saxophonist Dave Binney. Her duo performance with pianist Jim Ridl, ‘Lost in Translation’ (featuring stories and songs from her seven years as a hotel singer in Japan) was flagged by the New Yorker’s award-winning journalist Steve Futterman, who wrote, “If demanding experience leads to hard-won wisdom, Yarad and Ridl will have much to impart.”
In 2024 she took her her one-woman-show All These Pretty Things to the Edinburgh Fringe, a musical memoir based on her own experience of her 23 year marriage and it’s shocking demise. The show has received rave reviews and is touring extensivley in Australia and the UK in 2025. “Breathtakingly honest and gorgeously sung songs on the themes of loss and abandonment, and the restorative power of music and love.” – Broadway World
As part of her re-invention in her new life in NYC she has added jazz photographer to her list of professional accomplishments, and is photographer of choice for many of New York’s leading jazz musicians. Her work has appeared in Downbeat, Guitar Player, and Drum Scene magazines.
Lyrics
Wedgewood Blue (words and music by Tracey Yarad)
Here I sit on East 10th Street
Four story walk up
Who will I meet?
No familiarity is what I need
To come back to me
Now I’m no longer waking up alone
Deep red parlour chair
Just like home
Beautiful stranger we entwine
Hmm we drank the holy wine
Wedgewood Blue
Thank you
Thank you
Here I sit on East 10th Street
Four story walk up
Who will I meet?
No familiarity is what I need
To come back to me
Wedgewood Blue
Thank you
Thank you
Here I sit on East 10th Street
Four story walk up
Who will I meet?
No familiarity is what I need
To come back to me
Now I’m no longer waking up alone
Deep red parlour chair
Just like home
Beautiful stranger we entwine
Hmm we drank the holy wine
Wedgewood Blue
Thank you
Thank you
Here I sit on East 10th Street
Four story walk up
Who will I meet?
No familiarity is what I need
To come back to me
Wedgewood Blue
Thank you
Thank you
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