Sentiments and Suitcases

The Singer’s Art Concert Series presents:

Purchase show tickets: $20

Friday, December 4th @ 7:30pm

Saturday, December 5th @ 7:30pm

Taryn Noelle – actor, singer, dancer, choreographer: Simply stated this multi-faceted artist is a quadruple threat. So comfortable on any stage, the very diversity of her performing skills defines her and clearly places her in a field of her own. Taryn graduated from the Circle in the Square Theatre School two-year program in NYC and is an alumna of Bill Reed Voice Studio. She performs with the Burlington-based western swing band, Rick and the Ramblers and the Blue Gardenias. She works throughout Vermont as a choreographer, dance teacher, actor and vocalist. www.tarynnoelle.com

Amber deLaurentis teaches voice at St. Michael’s College and heads the vocal jazz program at UVM, where she co-directs the UVM Jazz Vocal Ensemble with her husband Tom Cleary. Amber also teaches voice and piano privately. As a songwriter, Amber has opened for NRBQ, Five For Fighting, Patti Larkin, Tom Paxton and Entrain. Originally from Philadelphia, Amber has compiled a considerable resume. Her band won best out of 1,200 in the Discmakers Independent Music World Series and received honorable mention in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Juliet McVicker is persistently drawn toward songs that are slightly off the beaten path. She has opened up for many vintage songwriters such as Ritchie Havens, David Bromberg, and Eric Anderson.

Tom Cleary studied music with a concentration in jazz performance at Hampshire College, where his teachers included Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp, and music education and piano performance at the University of Vermont, where his teachers included Sylvia Parker and Elizabeth Metcalfe.  He has been featured on recordings with artists including wife, singer/songwriter and pianist Amber deLaurentis (on Hey Sadie) trombonist Rick Davies (Salsa Nortena), saxophonist Brian McCarthy (eponymous debut album) – all available on iTunes – and bassist Mike Gordon of Phish. As an accompanist, he has worked with artists including Judi Silvano, Bill Frisell, Ike Willis and Lester Bowie. He has been commissioned as a composer by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, vocal group Social Band and the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. His work as a musical director has included many productions at Saint Michael’s Playhouse over the past fourteen years, including Big River, Barnum, The Drowsy Chaperone, Into The Woods and Young Frankenstein. He teaches on the faculty of the Flynn Arts jazz program and the UVM Music Department’s Jazz Studies Program. He writes a blog on piano, improvisation and the jazz tradition (blog.uvm.edu/tgcleary), and his music can be heard at www.myspace.com/tomclearypiano