REVIEWS:
" If you're looking for a rewarding way to celebrate America's greatest gift to the world-its music- this is a fine place to start...'Two Hundred Years Of American Song'...is the aural equivalent of a Ken Burn's documentary" - Peter Aaron/Chronogram/ June 2007
"She has a voice worth traveling many oceans to hear, as comfortable with folk songs as she is jazz standards, haunting ballads, and uptempo romps."
-John Mason, Register Star (Hudson, New York)
"You mean Mayorga can actually play Gottschalk and 'Kitten On The Keys'? Perfect. It's gonna be a great show.
-Studs Terkel, WFMT, Chicago before interviewing Lincoln
AMERICAN SNAPSHOTS: THE RECORDING
American Snapshots is an ambitious "Studs Terkel-esque" musical sweep through America. In a "core sample" of American music, from traditional ballads to music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, John Jacob Niles, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Carmichael & Mercer, Annie Ross, John Fogerty, Phil Ochs, Bix Beiderbecke, Tom Lehrer, Malvina Reynolds and each of the Mayorgas, the duo with their illustrious guests, wend their way from America's mountaintops, to the ballads and be-bop of the city, and into the storm of American politics.
BIOGRAPHIES:
SHERI BAUER - MAYORGA: As pianist, vocalist, and songwriter, Sheri has worked the underground, alternative, and grassroot scenes. A graduate of the Hartt School of Music and Brooklyn College, she began her career in NYC playing contemporary American piano repertoire(Morton Feldman, John Cage, Doris Hays, Henry Cowell) and appeared in venues such as The Kitchen and New Music America. An interest in American traditional music (via the piano compositions and folk song collections of Ruth Crawford Seeger) led Sheri to running after traditional folk song and singing it. She has performed and toured with this repertoire in a theater context with the New York company, The Actor's Ensemble, in their adaptation of stories by Hamlin Garland and for Nancy Rothman's "The Letters Of Emily Dickinson."
As singer and songwriter Sheri has performed on Jay Ungar's and Molly Mason's' show,"Dancing On The Air," WAMC's "Roundtable" and Phil Och's Song Night, the Spencertown Academy,The Hudson Opera House, The Hudson River Theater, Ten Broeck Mansion, Linda Norris Auditorium, PS/21, Steinway Hall LA, and the Chautauqua Institute.
Then there are summers spent sharing traditional folk songs, games, and dances with children at various schools, community theaters, and libraries. Sheri is also director and founder of the Columbia County Children's Vocal Ensemble in upstate New York.
www.sheribmayorga.com
LINCOLN MAYORGA is a pianist, composer and arranger who has toured internationally with a versatile repertoire. He has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists from Phil Ochs, Walt Disney Studios, The Limeliters,
Amanda McBroom, Barbara Streisand, Ketty Lester,
Marni Nixon, the Four Preps, Arnold Steinhardt,
Itzhak Perlman, Frank Zappa, and The Piltdown Men. His piano recordings range from jazz to pop to classical and include "Sophisticated Innocence," "Fiddle-De-Bop," "The Chopin Preludes," and "Music of Grofe and Gerswhin" with conductor Steve Richman and saxophonist, Al Gallodoro.He is co-founder, along with Doug Sax, of the pioneer audiophile label, Sheffield Lab.
GUEST ARTISTS:
Arnold Steinhardt(violin), Loren Schoenberg (tenor sax),
Sam Zucchini (drums), Otto Gardner (acoustic bass), and the Newman-Oltman Guitar Duo.
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