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Erin Zindle & The Ragbirds Present:Ebird Friends&14TH ANNUALWOHSYHOLIDAFEATURING:Audra Kubat,Al Bettis,Amy Petty,Rollie Tussing,Mark Lavengood,Jen Sygit,Aaron Jonah Lewis, BradPhillips, Ross Huff,Michael Shimmin, BrennanAndes,Tim Haldeman,Loren Kranz, Dan Piccolo,TJZindle, Shannon Wade,Asim Khan, Jessica Ober,Shelly Smith2021

&FriendsEbirdHOLIDAY SHOWPROGRAM OF SONGSSET IRing Out Wild Bells - poem by Alfred, Lord TennysonMusical Arrangement by Gareth Davies-Jones and Brad PhillipsFeaturing Erin ZindleWe Wish You A Merry Christmas (instrumental) - Warrell / Arr. Booker T & The MGsFeaturing The Holiday Show BandLonesome Christmas Blues - Blind Blake / Arr. Rollie TussingFeaturing Rollie TussingJingle Bells - James Pierpont/ Arr. Rollie TussingFeaturing Rollie Tussing, Aaron Jonah Lewis, Mark Lavengood, and Brad PhillipsSkating - Vince Guaraldi / Arr. Andrew Bird / Brad PhillipsFeaturing The Holiday Show StringsSycamore Tree - Amy PettyFeaturing Amy PettySanta Claus Is Comin To Town - Coots & Gillespie / Arr. Amy PettyFeaturing Amy PettySlipping Into Christmas - Leon RussellFeaturing Jen SygitI Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Tommie Connor / Arr. Ross HuffFeaturing The Holiday Show BrassAll I Want for Christmas Is You - Powers & Stone / Arr. HalbertFeaturing Jessica Ober

SET 2Kick The Balls of Patriarchy - Trad. / Arr. GoldsteinFeaturing the Holiday Show ChoirWhat Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin')?- Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang / Arr. HuffFeaturing Loren KranzRiver - Joni MitchellFeaturing Audra KubatI Want to Hear The World Sing Along - Audra KubatArr. Brad PhillipsFeaturing Audra KubatPraeambulum in F Major WV 39 - Heinrich ScheidemannArr. HuffFeaturing The Holiday Show BrassAll I Want For Christmas This Year - Al BettisFeaturing Al BettisJoy To The World -Watts / Arr. Al Bettis / HuffFeaturing Al BettisWaiting For Christmas - TJ ZindleFeaturing TJ ZindleI Believe in Father Christmass - Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield & ProkofievArr. Zindle / HuffFeaturing Erin Zindle & The RagbirdsFinale: Mary Had A Baby - Trad. / Arr. Brennan Andes / Erin ZindleThe Holiday Show Band:TJ Zindle, Loren Kranz,Brennan Andes, Dan Piccolo,Mike Shimmin, & Shannon WadeThe Holiday Show Brass:Ross Huff,Tim Haldeman,& Asim KhanThe Holiday Show Strings:Brad Phillips, Aaron Jonah Lewis,Mark Lavengood,& Erin Zindle

Searing and haunting, Detroit Music Award winningsinger/songwriter AUDRA KUBAT has released 7 albums tocritical acclaim in a career that spans over 20 years. Acomposer, performer, and educator, Audra’s work has earnedher a place in the community as a resource for empowermentthrough songwriting and music. Her methods of compositionarticulate grace and uncover hidden places between ourdreams and our realities. An offering of stark and beautifulreality that possesses experience yet embraces the whimsical.This is music from the hidden places between our dreams andour realities. She has shared bills with Aimee Mann, Rodriguez,Roberta Flack, Greta Van Fleet, The War and Treaty, Whit Hill,and Jolie Holland, to name a few.AL BETTIS was inspired to start writing and singing music atage 30. He felt a spiritual calling to heal the world throughmusic, so he picked up a guitar and a notepad and got towork. The self-trained acoustic guitarist has gained popularityfor his smooth vocals and sincere lyrics. His shows are ajourney through love, heartbreak, and redemption as he offersstories about the musings behind many of his songs. Hissoothing voice is reminiscent of legends like Al Green and OtisRedding, with musical influence from artists such as EdSheeran and Jason Mraz. Al is a constant fixture at festivalssuch as Detroit River Days, Michigan State Fair, MeridianWinter Blast, and Ford Arts, Beats and Eats. He has featuredboth at Sofar Sounds and Cultivate Coffee & Tap HouseConcert series; performing in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Clevelandand Ypsilanti.Award winning finger-style guitarist ROLLIE TUSSING performstimeless class and country blues, dewey-eyed tunes of the 20s,as well as godforsaken songs of the nineteenth century. Hisown compositions are influenced by those same lonesome,haunted, and abandoned melodies that we all forgot toremember.

Anyone that has witnessed MARK LAVENGOOD perform willattest to these three key attributes: his big heart, wild energyon stage, and the aptitude on the many instruments that heplays. Having released 3 LPs and a 7 inch vinyl under his ownname in conjunction with 3 LPs, and more with Internationaltouring act, Lindsay Lou (formerly, & the Flatbellys), MarkLavengood is no stranger to the hustle of the music industry.On top of building out his music agency, Bear MarkProductions, Lavengood is creating music, videos, blogs, andmore.AMY PETTY is an incredibly versatile performer, writer,arranger and instrumentalist, equally at home in front of anorchestra or behind a guitar and microphone. A classicallytrained vocalist, her voice is at the same time overwhelminglypowerful and impossibly delicate. She has released fourcritically acclaimed albums with the latest, “The Darkness ofBirds”, winning the Review Music Award’s “Album of the Year2020”. Amy has appeared on stages across the countryincluding Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center and hasshared the stage with artists like Sarah McLachlan, DarleneLove, Jewel and Suzanne Vega.Lansing, MI based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalistJEN SYGIT has released four solo albums with her latest record“It’s About Time” newly released in Oct. 2018. Sometimestraditional, sometimes contemporary, always with a rawhonesty “It’s About Time” is a sonic journey through thelandscape of Americana music. Produced by Sygit’s long timefriend and collaborator Dominic John Davis (bassist to JackWhite, Buddy Miller, and Joshua Davis) and featuring guestappearances from Luther Dickinson, Colin Linden and TheMcCrary Sisters, “It’s About Time” reveals a depth and maturityto Sygit’s ability as both songwriter and performer.

Virtuoso banjo player and fiddler AARON JONAH LEWIS hasbeen elbow-deep in traditional American music since theirfirst lessons at the age of five with Kentucky native RobertOppelt. Their concerts take audiences on a journey throughthe back roads of American old time and folk music, withdetours through ragtime and early jazz. Lewis has takenblue ribbons at the Appalachian String Band Festival, and atthe Old Fiddlers Convention; the oldest and largest fiddlersconvention in the country. They spend time teaching,touring as a solo performer, with the Corn Potato StringBand, and the Lovestruck Balladeers. Lewis has appeared ondozens of recordings from bluegrass and old time totraditional jazz, contemporary experimental and Turkishclassical music projects. They also play and teach banjo,mandolin, and guitar and are currently based in Detroit.For more than 16 years, BRAD PHILLIPS has served as asideman for some of Michigan’s most prevalentsinger/songwriter acts. He is most known for hisappearances with Jeff Daniels, The Verve Pipe, and theCeltic-fusion super-group Millish. He has also appearedwith May Erlewine, Joshua Davis and played violin forStevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Pat Metheny, and Iggy Popand the Stooges. Brad earned both his bachelor's andmaster's degrees in music from the University of MichiganSchool of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he now serves as aresident artist in the Chamber Music department. Brad isalso a resident artist at the Purple Rose Theatre Company,where he has worked as a composer, sound designer, andactor.Trumpeter and flugelhornist ROSS HUFF performs with ahalf-dozen different ensembles based in Ann Arbor, MI, andmaintains a docket of horn section engagements in everystyle of contemporary music, as well as several antiquatedones. Ross is a recording artist, arranger, and musicinstructor as well as an experienced composer, producerand bandleader. He has previously worked as an essayistand editor. In his free time, Huff is an avid baseball fanwho brings his own pencil and scorecard to keep score atgames.

MICHAEL SHIMMIN is a versatile drummer/percussionistwho plays many different styles of music. He worksregularly in the folk, jazz, and world music genres, aswell as blues and rock. He is a founding member of theinternationally touring Irish/American group “theolllam”, and also plays regularly with artists such as MayErlewine, Joshua Davis (The Voice), Dave Bruzza(Greensky Bluegrass), and Grammy Award winner PeterMadcat Ruth. Michael is also a sought after recordingartist who has recorded on over 60 albums. In the past,Michael has performed with Aretha Franklin, and DonRickles. In 2022, his group “the olllam” will be releasingtheir second album, which has been much anticipated bytheir fans throughout the world.BRENNAN DUNCAN ANDES graduated at seventeen,rented an apartment, and began booking gigs. He earneda modest income playing for private events or on thesmall stage at the Earle, supplemented by teaching basslessons for beginners. Then in 2005, he and a fewfriends formed a band originally dubbed Duncan and theMacpodz. While his artistry rests on a firm jazzfoundation, Andes says you'll also hear strains of worldrhythms, big band sounds, funky dance beats, andsomething they call "disco bebop."TIM HALDEMAN grew up in Ann Arbor and received hisearly musical training at Community High, learning jazzfrom Mike Grace. He then moved to Chicago, where hegraduated from the Chicago College of Performing Artsand was involved with some of the more adventurousmembers of the local jazz scene there. His ability to playin any context while retaining an indefinable personalstyle has served him well. Haldeman has developed astrong style all his own, informed by a prodigiousinstrumental technique, a rich sense of melodicdevelopment, and a deep knowledge of modernharmony. He also seems to have a seemingly endlessknowledge of modern jazz repertoire, moving from onetune to another without hesitation.

Coming from a musical family, LOREN KRANZ had theopportunity to try out several instruments before henarrowed his focus to drums and keys. In 2010, whilepursuing a Jazz Studies degree from Wayne StateUniversity, he auditioned for and won the drum chairwith The Ragbirds. Most recently, Loren has returned toErin Zindle & The Ragbirds (happy to have him back!).For the past five years, he has kept busy teaching musicat a non-profit organization in Saginaw, Major Chordsfor Minors, as well as touring with his band, BarbarossaBrothers.Percussionist DAN PICCOLO regularly performs andteaches in a wide range of musical settings. He iscurrently active as a member of the X4 PercussionQuartet, Ensemble Duniya, mirabai Women’s Choir, BigFun, and others. Previously, Dan recorded and touredinternationally as the drummer with groups includingNomo and Erin Zindle & The Ragbirds. In addition toholding degrees in the Western concert percussion andjazz traditions, Dan has also studied with mastermusicians in Ghana and India. He has appeared as aclinician at universities throughout the United States,and has earned invitations to present both performancesand educational workshops at the annual Percussive ArtsSociety International Convention.TJ ZINDLE is a dynamic singer/songwriter from AnnArbor. An energetic performer from his early years withhis critically acclaimed band, Last Conservative, Zindlehas been wowing crowds from a young age (releasing hisfirst 3 records before he was 23 and touring with bandslike the Goo Goo Dolls, Counting Crows, All AmericanRejects and even opening for Bon Jovi). TJ also playsguitar and sings in the ever evolving Folk/Rock-Worldbeat band, Erin Zindle & The Ragbirds.