Tom Mank, an independent singer-songwriter for the past twenty years, has played in folk, blues, and bluegrass bands
collaborating with a host of singers and instrumentalists in Boston (MA), Brattleboro (VT), Keene (NH), and Ithaca
(NY). He has most recently collaborated with Patti Witten, Jennie Lowe, Kathy Zeigler, Gait Klein Kromhof, and Amy Merrill.
Dr. Sera Jane Smolen is an active performer of many genres of music, including four centuries of classical music. In
addition to her collaboration with Mank, she has performed extensively with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Albert
Consort (New Violin Family), Tri-Cities Opera, Mansfield University Piano Trio, Ithaca Piano Trio, Trio Melange,
Chiron Festival of the Creative Spirit, and Cornell University Hesterian Musicism. She has taught at Mansfield
University, Alfred University, Hobart & William Smith, and Ithaca College. She is the assistant director of the New
Directions Cello Festival, a founding member of the Binghamton Cello Festival, and a guest clinician around the US and
Canada.
RECORDINGS: Paper Kisses, 2010; Where the Sun Meets the Blue, 2007; Souls of Birds 2004; Conversations in Waves,
2001; Almost Time, 2000.
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