Artist description Sandy Ross is a 21st Century Troubadour. Her roots are ingrained in the blues. Even her social commentary and political songs tend towards the bluer side of life, as she paints pictures of characters in their settings, while telling their stories. . .without judgement. All songs are built on initial voice/double guitar/upright bass arrangements. Styles vary from folk to blues to jazz and back again. As a performer, Sandy can help you laugh and cry and feel others' experiences as you would feel your own.

Music Style Contemporary Folk and Acoustic Blues

Musical Influences 1940s through 200X

Artist History Sandy Ross is a veteran contemporary folk/acoustic blues coffee house performer of the late 60's, a Peter Yarrow new writer pick of the mid-70's, and a Smithsonian/Folkways Fast Folk artist of the 80's/90's. She started writing and performing during the 60's coffee house era. In the 1970's her time was spent mainly as a staff songwriter for Chappell Music (Warner/Chappell), in Los Angles, but she also produced demo sessions of her songs for 11 other major song publishing companies, including: MCA, ATV, ScreenGems, and Filmways. Her songs have been performed by, among others, Anne Murray and Kim Carnes. Her own performances of her songs currently receive airplay on over 150 public, community, and college radio stations across the US, the CBC-Network throughout Canada, BBC in Essex England and Northern Ireland, ATL in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, 4DDB, PBS-FM, and 100.3 Bay FM in Australia, and folk radio programs in other various parts of the world.Since SLR Productions' indie release of her 1995 CD, "Portraits of Innocence," Sandy has toured four times through 40 US states, performing the coffeehouse/bookstore circuit and doing live interview-performances on many independent and syndicated radio shows.

Group Members Core Session Group Includes: Jeff Gold (acoustic guitar), Tim Emmons (upright bass & string arrangements) and Jerry Peterson (sax & horm arrangements). For more recording credits visit Sandy's Official Website at: http://www.primenet.com/~sandyr

Instruments Acoustic: guitars, percussion & drums, piano, violin/viola/cello, upright bass, harmonica, saxaphones

Albums Sessions (1991), Portraits of Innocence (1995), and Coloring Outside the Lines (1998)

Press Reviews Reviews are available at Sandy's Official Website at: http://www.primenet.com/~sandyr

Additional Info Kayla Can't Come Out to Play - Single (2000)

Location Tarzana, CA - USA

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