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| Sheri Bauer-Mayorga is a pianist, vocalist, songwriter, and recording artist who has worked the underground, alternative, and grassroot scenes! A champion of American music, she spent her salad days 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. While accompanying vocal lessons for salad money, Sheri developed a passion for American song and began her own singing and songwriting journey. She has pulled together an eclectic American repertoire from traditional song and jazz to songs by contemporary classical composers. As both a songwriter and interpreter of the "extended American Songbook", she has performed at the Spencertown Academy, Caffe Lena, the Hudson Opera House, The Hudson River Theater, Ten Broeck Mansion, Linda Norris Auditorium, PS/21, The Chautauqua Institute, and at Steinway Hall LA. In 2004 she completed her first recording with TownHall Records, "On The Wrong Side Of The Railroad Tracks," and another followed in 2007, "American Snapshots: 200 Years of American Song." Then there is singing at those necessary rallies, summers spent sharing traditional folk repertoire with children, and scat singing with Lincoln Mayorga and the Berkshire Bop Society. Sheri is director and founder of the Columbia County Children's Vocal Ensemble. What's life in a world without song? In 2007 Sheri has released a second recording with Lincoln Mayorga and friends called "American Snapshots: 200 Years of American Song." In a "Studs-Terkel-esque" 20 song sweep the Mayorgas and their illustrious guests (Arnold Steinhardt, Loren Schoenberg, Sam Zucchini, Otto Gardner, and The Newman-Oltman Guitar Duo) cover traditional songs to tunes from Foster to Fogerty. Wending their way from America's mountaintops they descend into the be-bop and ballads of the city and straight into the storm of US politics. SEE MORE ABOUT "AMERICAN SNAPSHOTS THE RECORDING" |
