Sharis Swartley - Sharis is a well defined songstress and experienced performer opens her heart and delivers her soul at every show. As the lead singer in her Mount Holly, NJ based band “Madison Hotel” or as a solo performer she rocks and often rolls out touching original music as well as her own versions of bluesy classics. To find out more about Sharis visit myspace.com/thesharisband
Mir Stavola - Mir is a Slovakia born singer songwriter who experiments with traditional tunes of Eastern Europe. Her spiritual work, love of nature and untamed attitude seeps through into her lyrics that call for revival of old values, freedom and equality of all beings. http://www.mirsnet.com
Heidi Winzinger- A native Southern New Jersey songwriter, Heidi brings a little country twang to the group with her original songs about life in New Jersey, the love of a dog, loss of a husband and of course, love. http://www.HeidiWinzinger.com
Deborah Ann Sheldon- A professor of music education, Deborah brings many talents to the Estro Genies - saxophone, bass, guitar and vocals. This maestro brings it all together and keeps check on the groups structure, harmonies and style making sure the entire show is worth your precious time.
The Estro Genies are all female, fun and folk for the most part with three singer songwriters and one music professor tying the whole act together. This unique group creates a show mixed with old time folk and country standards, a smidgen original hard folk rock, some soulful groove tunes and to top it all off, a few Slovakian foot stomping mountain music.
This unique quad of women became friends through Southern New Jersey music circles as individual artists and writers. During the winter of 2007 they formed this unique ensemble finding there was a need for an all women musical variety show of sorts, which brings the audience a assorted musical event. These ladies combine their original tunes and some special covers to mix up the evening were there are some solos, but mostly group performances where they all back each other on vocals, percussion, saxophone, bass and guitars.
