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“West writes disarming melodies, wraps her songs in beautiful, spare arrangements, and sings them with a beguiling voice…” - No Depression
"An Indie masterpiece." - American Songwriter
“Her music is rooted and comfortable, but her songs have a restless promise.” - NY Times
“Folk, roots, hip-hop, reggae, gospel, Americana, West has no problem with any of them. And she does it with vigour. Her passionate, scratchy, sometime Marianne Faithfullesque voice seems to be able to tackle anything.” - Alt. Country, Belgium
"The journey she shared was perhaps what anyone looking for freedom, love and self might experience, but she has a uniquely effortless, and charming, way of telling the tale." - LA Times
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Lizzie West
"The journey West shared was perhaps what anyone looking for freedom, love and self might experience, but she has a uniquely effortless, and charming, way of telling the tale." - LA Times
Having sold more than 30,000 copies of her musical works, Lizzie West has a broad fan base for her poetry and songs. West is not only a songwriter and a performer, she has acted in the role of producer, playwright, and activist. After the 2003 Warner Bros release of her album, “Holy Road: Freedom Songs,” AOL and Entertainment Weekly both named West “Breaker Artist of the Year.”
The NY Times said, “Her work is rooted and comfortable, but her songs have a restless promise.” West’s composition was featured in the film Secretary (starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhall), and in TV shows such as, The L Word, Dawson’s Creek, Alias, and Third Watch. Her music has also been featured on radio programs such as Democracy Now!, commercial AAA, many local NPR affiliates, and college radio. West was featured singing her original song, “Holy Road,” in a national TV ad campaign directed by Spike Lee. She has performed the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden, toured as an opener for artists such as Chris Isaak and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, as well as headlining several of her own national tours.
Lizzie West was born in NYC, July 21st, 1973; daughter of Louise Westergaard, a Broadway producer of Musical Theater and John Westergaard, a financial analyst. While Lizzie was still in the womb, her mother collaborated with legendary mythologist, educator and author, Joseph Campbell. In early childhood, Louise read her William Blake and T.S. Elliot. Lizzie began writing poetry, melodies, and stories as soon as she could form words on paper. As a child, she entertained crowds of Broadway theater creators at her parent’s cocktail parties, including such legends as Charlie Strauss, Cy Coleman, James Earle Jones, and Gregory Hines. West was educated at the Chapin School, the Millbrook School, Hampshire College, and NYU. She has driven across America 14 times. She is currently living at her country home in Connecticut and working to complete the first book of the Re*Membering Now Series, The Myth of The Golden Thread.
Songwriter, pianist, musical director, illustrator, activist, producer, gardener and blogger, Baba Buffalo, is a renaissance man. He was born in a frigid Midwestern blizzard of 1982. Growing up, he listened to the sounds of jazz, blues, trees, the news and first began singing Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at age two. Baba grew through many shoes that led him 'cross the great lake of Michigan to the 'between two lakes', of Interlochen Arts Academy. In his late teens, his performance and compositions we're recognized in Downbeat Magazine. The road turned south of the equator at the turn of the 21st century where Baba spent a couple of summers touring Peru with his jazz trio.
Baba went on to study at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. After a trip to Europe, Baba heard the road call again, bringing the conservatory years to a close. The young Buffalo left Boston and moved to New York City, from where he toured the U.S. and Canada. He has performed and recorded with many different musical groups in a variety of styles ranging from opera, Sufi, hip-hop, jazz, classical, reggae, ragtime, folk, free and fusion. He has accompanied professional dance companies such as Alvin Alley and Martha Graham. Baba has been a musical director with National Dance Institute of New York since 2004, performing, teaching and musically directing dance residencies in New York City, Connecticut, Colorado & Mexico.
On an early June morning in New York City, Baba met his wife, Lizzie West and has been traveling on the road with her, and their Dharma Dog, ever since. In 2007, the duo released, I Pledge Allegiance to Myself on social justice label Appleseed Records. The album received international recognition and had songs featured on Showtime's, The L Word and Democracy Now! After a year of national touring, they released a follow up double-disk live album, The Tumbeweed Cabaret, in 2008.
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