Lydia McCauley, Jami Sieber, and Nancy Rumbel in Concert

NANCY RUMBEL is a professional composer, recording artist, studio musician, producer and performer. Her primary instruments are oboe, English horn, double wooden ocarinas and keyboards. She is best known for her work with the GRAMMY award-winning duo Tingstad & Rumbel, but has numerous guest appearances on recordings and concerts. Nancy toured and recorded with the Paul Winter Consort for several years.
She was raised in San Antonio as the youngest of a musical family. Her imaginative sound palettes and willingness to delve into uncharted solo performance and recording opportunities with musicians, film makers, dancers, writers, photographers, painters, bird watchers and even psychologists have provided her with a very interesting life. “People are often unfamiliar with the instruments I play and are curious about and motivated to use them. Due to their uniqueness, I am as much of an educator as I am a performer, consequently, at times I can feel like a curiosity, an endangered species and a pioneer all rolled into one.” Her gifts, perseverance, sense of adventure, humor and good fortune have allowed her to share her music with thousands of people in hundreds of unique venues including: Carnegie Hall, the Ho-Am Award Ceremony in Seoul Korea, Buddhist temples in Japan, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Grand Canyon National Parks, the Missouri Botanic Garden, the Space Needle, Orofino, and the list goes on.

JAMI SIEBER, electric cellist, vocalist, and composer is a celebrated pioneer of her instrument with an inspiring and fearless style of performance that has been recognized internationally. Sieber creates her own kind of world music, boasting immediate emotional impact and conveying a visionary presence that goes beyond the gorgeous melodies and tribal rhythms. Reaching inside the soul with compositions that are lush and powerfully evocative, her music transforms from the deepest stillness to moving melodies and rhythms that light the heart on fire.
This sometimes ethereal, sometimes hard-edged musician has earned rave reviews throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. Employing looping devices and electronics to create sounds never before associated with the cello, Sieber transforms her solo instrument into an orchestra of sound that opens the heart, defies the mind, and sets the body dancing. Sieber’s musical path moved from classical to folk to rock/pop where, within her poplar band “Rumors of the Big Wave,” she garnered the coveted Northwest Area Music Association (NAMA) Award for Best Rock Instrumentalist. Launching her solo career, she performed original compositions around the word, and dived into dynamic collaborations with an extraordinary spectrum of dancers, actors, poets, visual artists, improvisers, vocalists, and instrumentalists that span the globe.

LYDIA McCAULEY is a passionate singer, pianist, and composer. Her song-writing is shaped by Folk, medieval, and Contemporary music, an affinity with nature, as well as her own pilgrimages around the world. This combination portrays a journey through the past and into the present as Lydia’s songs take her listener to an inward landscape, where the simple truths of her lyrics engage the soul. The originality of Lydia’s songs, and her arrangements of traditional music embody a timeless quality which defies catagorization.

McCauley has independently operated her own music label since 1995 and has released six recordings. The Beauty of the Earth album rated number one selling New Age recording for 2003 by Goldenrod Music Distributors. Her music is currently featured on Jet Blue, Frontier Airlines, Musak, Sirius Satellite Radio, and Martha Stewart Living. Commissioned by the Episcopal Church to write a Contemporary Mass, McCauley composed MISSA AZZURRO VERDE, a body of work that celebrates the earth and the heavens.

Music Sojourn Radio says, “Incredible! If Lydia McCauley were performing during the early 60’s folk scene, her name would be synonymous with Judy Collins, Joan Baez and Mary Travers. Today, place her recordings on the same shelf alongside those plus Karen Matheson, Maire (Moya) Brennan, Mary Black, Loreena McKennitt, Maddy Prior, Enya, Annie Haslam, Jacqui McShee, Sandy Denny… She simply is that good.”

“I wouldn’t have missed this for anything. The words were just as good as the music.” – Madeleine L’Engle, Newberry Award Winning Author of “Wrinkle in Time”

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