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Michele (Michele O'Malley) recorded the album ''Saturn Rings'', a West Coast folk-psych record also featuring the magicians Boettcher (Sagittarius, Millennium), Lowell George (Little Feat) and Elliott Ingber (Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart). .

Jon McLaughlin is a U.S. pianist, guitarist, and pop/rock singer-songwriter. McLaughlin was born on September 27, 1982 in Anderson, Indiana. Playing piano since early childhood, he was always finding ways to get out of piano lessons. While attending Highland High School, he shattered both wrists in an accident that interrupted his musical education. Nevertheless, McLaughlin attended Anderson University to study music. He released an independent album entitled Up until Now in 2003. This quickly led to McLaughlin becoming the first artist to sign on with the school's record label, Orangehaus Records. His self-titled album was released in 2004 to local...

"Michèle Bernard is one of the great ladies of the French chanson. Born in Lyons, she has been touring France with her accordion for almost twenty-five years. [Her] beautiful song, 'C'Est Un Rital', is a tribute to multicultural contemporary France. It explains that even the most 'French-sounding' music, the bal musette, comes from a melting pot ..." (Guillaume Veillet, sleeve notes for The Rough Guide to Paris Café Music, 2002) .

Mary McLaughlin is a singer/songwriter who is steeped in the Gaelic song tradition of her native Ireland. Mary records, performs and teaches workshops in singing skills, performance technique and Gaelic song and culture. Mary was born and raised in Northern Ireland. At the age of eleven Mary began to learn Gaelic and was influenced by ‘sean nós' (old style) singing which she heard in the Donegal Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area). She was also heavily influenced by Latin Church music in her early years. During her adolescence she began to listen to contemporary singer songwriters from the USA, in particular Joni...