Virago.......Offical Website

ViRAGO is a high-energy guitar and percussion duet consisting of musicians/composers Amy Schindler and Maire Tashjian. Their music is an edgy rock sound with elements of blues and samba. They have performed internationally including Salvador Bahia, Brazil. The New York Council on the Arts has recognized ViRAGO for their debut recording "Here be Dragons." ViRAGO is in our schools offering Interactive Assemblies including "The Joy of Rhythm" multicultural, educational, percussion and performing arts program! return to top

Bitch....Official Website.....

Bitch's musical journey has taken her from classical-violin training in the suburbs to experimental flicks in NYC. After leaving the outskirts of Detroit for the artier charms of Chicago—Bitch's unconventional and outspoken approach to performance caught the attention of a number of indie luminaries. She took fiddling lessons with Andrew Bird, serendipitously stumbled upon future co-conspirator, Animal at acting school, moved to New York to make their own 'theater' (Bitch and Animal) and recorded and toured with Ani DiFranco (who released Bitch and Animal's records on Righteous Babe). This association yielded an international following, introducing the world to Bitch’s left-of-center and controversial brand of performance.

Bitch's latest record, Blasted! (release date spring 2010), is an outgrowth of that newfound creative spirit, a real labor of love and her strongest solo album to date. The melodies are catchy and haunting and the lyrics unflinchingly honest. Bitch plays electric violin like a rock guitar, and adds layers of unique instrumentation to create a sonic symphony. Blasted! is fully self-produced and will be released with money raised by Bitch's loyal fan base. With Blasted!, Bitch continues to push the envelope with her wild-spirited avant-garde “theatrical punk” sound and has produced her most listenable and enjoyable album to date. return to top

Marga Gomez .Official Website

Stand-up comic, playwright and actress Marga Gomez is the winner of The GLAAD Media Award and Theatre LA Ovation Award and a nominee of New York’s Drama Desk Award. She was named “Best Comedian 2008” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. 
      Marga tours nationally as one of the first openly gay comedians in America. On June 20th, 2009 she will be seen in the premiere of LOGO’s One Night Stand-Up and has appeared on HBO’s Comic Relief, Showtime’s Latino Laugh Festival, Comedy Central’s Out There and the PBS series In the Life. Marga is profiled in the 2003 documentary Laughing Matters (along with Kate Clinton and others) Her comedy recording, Hung Like a Fly, is available on Uproar Records.
        Marga’s acting credits include The Vagina Monologues at the Westside Theater, HBO’s Tracy Takes on…, Guiding Light, Batman Forever, Sphere and indie favorites Rosa Negra and The D Word.
       Marga Gomez is also the writer and performer of eight solo plays: Long Island Iced Latina,Los Big Names, A Line Around The Block, Memory Tricks, Marga Gomez is Pretty, Witty & Gay, Jaywalker, The Twelve Days of Cochina and Marga Gomez’s Intimate Details and her collaboration with Carmelita Tropicana, Single Wet Female, have been produced nationally, internationally and in New York at The Public Theater, The 47th Street Theater, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place and La Mama ETC.
        Selections from her work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure, Out, Loud & Laughing, Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color and Out of Character and When I Knew and Howl(an anthology of dog humor. ) return to top

Arlene McCann .....Offical Website

Arlene McCann is a Philadelphia based singer/songwriter who’s lyrics bleed through each strum of her guitar. In 2003 she got her feet wet with the release of her debut album asidefromyou. Since then, the lyrics and tunes have been writing themselves through her emotional wit, and catchy, but edgy melodies. In 2006 came the release of her second album Soaked in Rain, which instantly became a fan favorite. return to top

KJ Denhert.... Official Website

KJ Denhert is a unique artist, singer, guitarist and songwriter who calls her music Urban Folk and Jazz. Her voice is powerful, her lyrics full of intelligent insight, and her musicianship is impeccable. Her eclectic yet unified performances reach out to many different types of audiences without compromising her music and beliefs. She is heard at her best on her most recent recording, Lucky 7 and is known to be especially good live. She performs the unusual feat of being both highly individual and quite accessible.

Among KJ Denhert’s many accomplishments, in addition to running her own band and label, are three highly successful appearances at Umbria Jazz (“the audience response was very gratifying”), an ongoing residency since 1999 at The 55 Bar in NYC, winning many songwriting contests (including being named among the six winners of the Kerrville New Folk Song contest in June 2006 for Private Angel and the Mountain Stage Newsong contest in August 05 for Little Mary), and successful appearances at other festivals and clubs around the world. Her previous recording, Another Year Gone By, Live won the 2006 Independent Music Award for Best Live Performance. return to top

CoCoMama Four....Official Website..

Cocomama  is an international group of women based in New York City who are natives of such diverse places as Cuba, Israel, France, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Oregon and Wisconsin. They play “hard-hitting”, original Latin music deeply rooted in Afro-Caribbean rhythms. Inspired by their various musical and cultural backgrounds, their music draws upon jazz, World, Afro-Cuban, and South American traditions. Members of the band have played with such legendary artists as Machito, Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Sheila E., Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto, and Tito Puente. return to top