Album Notes

MotherLode Trio delivers emotionally honest, straight-from-the-heart folk writes the Times of London.

If you like beautiful and sophisticated folk harmonies you will love this artfully produced CD. Think The Trio albums (Emmy Lou Harris, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt), The Dixie Chicks, Cry Cry Cry etc.

MotherLode Trio consists of New York-based singer-songwriters musicians and mothers: Stacy Labriola, Patti Pelican and Terry Platz.
The album features a variety of original compositions that addresses issues large and small, from the world stage to the nursery, all through the lens of motherhood. But you don't need to be a parent to appreciate their stellar vocal arrangements and blend. In perfect tune with the nation's growing interest in sophisticated alternative folk music, its styles range from country to blues to ballads, all infused with Motherlode Trio's signature harmonies.

Accompanying Motherlode Trio are some heavy hitting musicians including Cindy Cashdollar (Bob Dylan, Jorma Koukonen) Adam Rogers (Norah Jones) and Marc Shulman (Suzanne Vega) just to name a few.

MotherLode Trio has performed at venues in New York City, the Hudson Valley area and throughout New England and the Midwest including nationally acclaimed venues such as Towne Crier, The Turning Point, Bodles Opera House, The Jungle Theater, and The Clearwater Folk Festival. They have shared stages with many talented musicians such as Greg Brown, Modern Man, Lucy Kaplansky, Gandolph Murphy and the Slambovian Circus, KJ Denhart and many others.

MotherLode Trio is associated with the newly popular "Moms Who Rock" phenomenon/ movement. Their story has been featured on CNN, The Today Show, CBS Morning Show and Good Morning America as well as newspaper press including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and the NYC Daily News and the Times Of London.

MotherLode Trio: "Raising Folk Music One family at a Time"