Album Notes

Melissa Holland is a singer/songwriter, flutist, and keyboardist. In each song she tells a story - reflecting
personal growth and change and evoking empathy, images and
pathos. She does this with confessional, conversational and often humorous lyrics.

Her style is a mixture of pop, folk, classical, sometimes even jazz and country; but somehow it is all part of who she is and the musical journey she takes you on. She has been compared style-wise to Carol King and Laura Nyro.

Her voice is reminiscent of Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins:
clear, honest and flexible; both ethereal and down to earth
as she puts it, "head in the clouds, feet on the ground".

Melissa has worked as a studio musician and performed with
Pete Seeger, David Roth, Penny Nichols and Rex Fowler.

During her stint as a classical flutist, she
performed with members of the New York Philharmonic
and was principal flute with the Bronx Symphony Orchestra.

Melissa's music has appeared in numerous podcast broadcasts of the Viking Intenet Radio Network, including this one in March 2008:
"Buck's Bunkhouse PodCast": http://thevikingradio.com/radio/PodCastHTML/ep051.htm

She currently appears in the Hudson Valley area with alan ross haynes. The duo recently (3/19/08) performed live on WBCR 97.7 FM Radio, Great Barington, Ma.
They were the guests of Barbara and Graham Dean on their
2 hour "Common Sense Radio" show.
Melissa also performs with alan on his recordings "Back In Vietnam", Let's Eat The Poor", and the soon to be released "Clothespin On Your Nose" .