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JUNE 22 at 7 p.m.
Jen Sygit and Spare Change

Opening act by
The Well Fed Kids

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What people are saying about "Here to There" and "Marshall St"!

"Every song on this 10-track collection is good...keep an eye out in the future for this young performer from Lansing."-Diane Miller WNMC/FM 90.7

"Bluesy, jazzy, folky at its best, this is rich reflective, upbeat music. Jen's songs are as comfortable and compelling as her voice is sultry and warm. 'Here to There' is a very impressive first effort."-Wanda Degen, performance coordinator, East Lansing Art Festival

"It's as a singer that Sygit can't be ignored, and it's her voice that lights up this album and makes it fly."-Chris Reiitz, Elderly Instruments (from his review for the Lansing State Journal)
Leaving Marshall St. is "full of energy, musical variety, and vocal fireworks, thoroughly listenable from beginning to end. When you can break the second-album curse this decisively, you know you've got something."
-Chris Rietz - review for the Lansing State Journal
"I was lucky enough to hear songs from Leaving Marshall St. months before its release as they were performed live right in front of me at the radio station. It quickly became one of my most highly anticipated CD releases of the year. Now that it's here I guarantee it will be on my 'Top 10 CD releases of 2006' list."
-John Bommarito Host of Acoustic Alternatives, WHFR DearbornHost of Acoustic Brunch, WQKL Ann Arbor

"Jen stands out in a rich company of musicians, carrying on old traditions in new ways. I can't help but to listen again and again. I just love it!"-Rachael Davis, Celebrated Performer/Singer/Songwriter

A gifted vocalist and masterful songwriter, Jen Sygit has a golden ear and a deft touch on guitar. Her smooth, sultry voice plays sweet and true across broad range and brings just the right timbre to traditional ballads, acoustic blues, torch songs, country music or lighthearted folk tunes. To supplement her solid acoustic guitar playing, Jen often turns to her open back banjo or soprano ukulele performing mountain melodies and timeless jazz tunes further emphasizing her vocal dexterity. A countrified girl with a generous heart, Jen’s songwriting is personal and heartfelt, but always expressed with a universal appeal. Whether writing about the country roads of her childhood or about watching families send their sons and daughters off to war, Jen Sygit represents "the music of front porch America." (Mike Hughes, Lansing State Journal)

Now, armed with her sophomore release Leaving Marshall St. (released on Earthwork Music in Sept. 2006) and four years of experience on the road, Jen has worked rooms both large and small. Available as a solo act or with her backing band Spare Change*, Jen comfortably performs at house concerts, coffeehouses, theaters, festivals and concert series around her home state of Michigan and across the Midwest/ East Coast region. As host of the Tuesday Night Open Mic, a popular underground open mic held weekly at Dagwood Tavern in Lansing, MI, Jen has helped foster the rapidly growing community of musicians and songwriters located in and around mid-Michigan. 

*Spare Change is: Tahmineh Gueramy on fiddle and vocals (previously a member of Uncle Earl and Pub Domain), Drew "Captain Midnite" Howard on dobro, guitar, banjo and vocals (previous member of The Weepers) and Joe Bakaitis on upright bass (current member of Honest D and the Steel Reserve and The Salt Miners).