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CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS

Almost four decades
as a touring professional
have found Michigan native
Claudia Schmidt traversing
North America as well as Europe
in venues ranging from intimate clubs
to 4,000 seat theatres, and festival
stages in front of 25,000 rapt listeners.
She has recorded fourteen albums of
mostly original songs, exploring folk,
blues, and jazz idioms featuring
her acclaimed 12-string
guitar and mountain
dulcimer playing.
SallyRogersperformsaneveningoftraditional,contemporaryandoriginalballadsand
song,interwovenwithstoriestakenfromherlifeasaperformer,awifeandamother.
Throughoutherconcerts,sheaccompaniesherselfonguitarandAppalachiandulcimer,or
performswithoutaccompanimentinavoicethatneedsnofurtherenhancement.
Reviewershavedescribedhervoiceinsuperlativesrangingfrom"remarkable"to
"mesmerizing."Asonecriticsummarized,"...it'sreallynexttoimpossibletodojusticetoa
voiceofthatquality."MuchofthematerialperformedbySallyincludescompositionsof
herown,manyofwhichareconsideredclassicsofthefolkandpopulargenre.