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Jen Sygit and Spare
Change
with special guest Nathan Bates
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 Dearborn
Host
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).
More info at
http://www.jensygit.com
nathan
bates
"Nathan was
fortunate to be born into a musical family. His father is a
classical musician, his brothers are singers, songwriters
and top notch players.
Nathan writes of who he loves,
where he's been and of his here and now. Plain, simple,
unaffected songs about life, it's troubles and
blessings.
He has worked as a flyfishing guide, cook,
bartender, ranch hand and caretaker all over the
country.
He is currently recording his long awaited
debut release-Original Recipe. Look forward to a CD release
party later this year."
www.nathanbatestunes.com