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Sally Fingerett:
Raised on Chicago’s South Side, Sally now lives in
Columbus OH, with her second husband. With a daughter
away at college, two teenage sons keep Sally on her toes
and fully clothed at all times. Having released five
solo and six Babe CDs, she’s participated in 12
additional CD compilation projects. Sally has also
taken to the stage as an actress, performing with the
National Touring Company of the Vagina Monologues.
She’s been a featured musical guest on Michael Feldman’s
Whad'Ya Know, NPR’s Mountain Stage, CNN's Sonya Live,
PBS Lifelines with Peter, Paul and Mary, and CBS Sunday
Morning. Concert touring has found her on various
stages across the US and Canada, from "Blues by the
Moon" in San Francisco to Putamayo’s Songwriter Fest at
NY's Carnegie Hall. She is a Kerrville, Texas New Folk
award-winner for songwriting while Holly Near, Ronnie
Gilbert, and folk legends, Peter, Paul, and Mary have
recorded her song “Home Is Where the Heart Is.” As a
comedy writer, Sally's essays have been published in
various publications including Random House's Life's
A Stitch, a collection of contemporary women's humor
along with Erma Bombeck and Molly Ivans and many
others. As part of the Amerisound Production team she
has written music for film and TV and has sung radio and
TV Jingles such as Butterfinger, Hallmark, and Sears.
Sally’s latest CD "A Women's Gotta Do Her Thing"
includes moving duet with pal, guest vocalist Janis Ian.
Debi Smith:
Debi
Smith lives with her husband and teenage son in Falls
Church VA, near Washington, D.C. Playing guitar, piano,
and Irish bodhran (drum), Debi has received seven
Washington Area Music Awards (Wammies) including Best
Vocalist, Artist, and Album. Debi has been a repeat
performer on NPR's Prairie Home Companion and Mountain
Stage, and been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, Stud's
Terkel's Radio Hour, and a half hour special on Country
Music Television (CMT). After touring Russia and
Europe, Debi has appeared periodically on Radio
Smithsonian, the Voice of America and All Things
Considered (Susan Stamberg, Noah Adams). She has
performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center, Wolftrap,
EPCOT Center, Philadelphia’s Keswick, and L.A.'s
Wadsworth Theatres. The Smith Sisters, Debi and
Megan, released four recordings on Rounder/Flying Fish,
accompanied by Doc & Merle Watson and Mark O'Connor, and
recorded 3 children's albums that won Parent's Choice
and American Library Awards. Debi has co-written "Marry
Me Again" with folk legend Tom Paxton, who included it
on his Grammy-nominated album in 2004. Her songs have
won ASCAP composer awards and were finalists
for Virginia state song. Debi has participated in over
20 albums and compilations. Her CD "Red Bird Red," was
picked as one of the year’s best by the Washington Post,
and her fourth solo CD, "Cupid," with guests Doc Watson
and Mike Auldridge (Seldom Scene), is ... “nothing short
of amazing" Music Monthly Magazine.
Nancy
Moran:
Declared
“Songwriter of the Year” by the Virginia Sound Achievement
Awards and WXGI Radio, Nancy has recorded four solo CDs,
including her latest titled “Something Old, Something New.”
Garnering public and commercial radio airplay on 80+
stations coast-to-coast, Nancy’s CD’s have landed her on the
Gavin Americana charts alongside Delbert McClinton and Joan
Baez. She’s been featured internationally on radio stations
in Australia, Canada, and Europe. The Richmond-Times
Dispatch called her “nothing short of a [modern-day] Joni
Mitchell” and “a force to be reckoned with.” Dirty Linen
Magazine says Nancy has “a powerful, expressive
voice…stunning.” She has performed at universities,
festivals and clubs such as Nashville’s Bluebird, Washington
DC’s Birchmere, Cambridge’s Club Passim and the Kerrville
(TX) Folk Festival. She has been a columnist for American
Songwriter Magazine, a frequent key-note speaker at music
conferences and events, an NSAI-endorsed music business
instructor, and the author of several books, audio series,
and courses including, “The Songwriter’s Survival Kit,” “The
Professional Songwriter’s Code of Conduct,” and “Making and
Releasing Your Own CD.” In her spare time (yeah, right), she
is currently learning to sew! Nancy resides
in Nashville, TN with her husband, Fett, and their two cats,
Fluffy and Suzie Q.
Deirdre Flint:
Lauded
by The New York Times, Billboard Magazine, and The Christian
Science Monitor, Deirdre Flint’s songs hang out at the
intersection where folk music and stand-up comedy collide.
Since her first CD The Shuffleboard Queens debuted in 1999,
Flint has played The Kennedy Center and The Kerrville Folk
Festival and has been heard on 100+ radio programs
throughout the country including The Dr. Demento Show and
The World Café. Deirdre's song "Taxidermal Therapy" from
The Babe's new "Hormonal Imbalance" CD was chosen to
represent the Babes on Dr. Dimento's Best of 2006
compilation. Her offbeat humorous songs about bridesmaids'
dresses and shoe shopping as therapy have been heard on
TLC's network specials, "A Dating Story," and "Always a
Bridesmaid," as well as the BBC's documentary "The
Reclaimers." Teaching was her first career and she started
out writing children’s songs. This year, she was
commissioned to write a kid’s song about mermaids for the
town of Norfolk, VA to accompany the mermaid statues that
are scattered throughout the town. Deirdre has a Masters
degree in Elementary Education from U Penn and is writing a
book about education. After a week of cooking school in New
York City, she can make a flaming dessert - on purpose - and
she can put it out, too. Though she is still single, she
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