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CYNTHIA MCQUILLIN is an amazingly versatile and prolific songwriter/
performer with a throaty contralto range and a varied and engaging
performance style. She's recorded seven solo albums running the thematic
gamut from folk ballads, magic, size and self-image politics, and feminism
to vampires, werewolves, space flight and cats.
Over 200 of her songs have been featured on tape and CD collections by various artists. Though she rarely does public appearances these days, she spent several years
performing around the Bay Area both as a solo artist and with "Dr. Jane"
Robinson, her partner in the comedy/music duet Mid-life Crisis. Over the
years she has also had consistent if limited air play, both here and in
Europe, on stations that feature folk, pagan, womyn's music and science
fiction and fantasy programming in their formats.
A mistress of the story ballad, with an in-born love of the fantastic
and innate sense of all things mystical, her work appeals to folk
music-lovers, medievalists, pagans, feminists and fans of the absurd. Her
main following has always been among the science fiction and fantasy
community, though, a group whose members are as eclectic and imaginative as
Cynthia's songs.
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| This achingly beautiful folk arrangement finds yourself trapped within a werewolf's silent insatiable rage. |
CD: Moonshadows
Label: Unlikely Publications
Credits: Vocals & Guitar: Cynthia McQuillin, Bass: Patrick McKenna, Harmony Vocals: Jane Robinson |
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| The beautiful and compelling classic folk-style arrangement perfect supports the mingling of sorrow, rage and vengeance expressed in this most unusual vampire ballad. |
CD: Moonshadows
Label: Unlikely Publications
Credits: Vocals & Guitar: Cynthia McQuillin, Bass: Patrick McKenna, Synth: Patrick Breen, Flute: Margaret Davis |
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| This clever swing number is very popular with the California crowd and has received a lot of local airplay over the years. Beatnik-style bongos and the silky electric guitar licks accentuate the "fang in cheeck" fun of this song. |
CD: Moonshadows
Label: Unlikely Publications
Credits: Vocals: Cynthia McQuillin, Bass: Patrick Breen, Electric Guitar: Patrick McKenna, Bongos: Jane Robinson |
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