Vinnie Cerniglia on guitars and vocals, Maryellen Healy on guitar and vocals. Accompanied by various and sundry wandering minstrels.
影響
Peter Seeger. Peter Green, peter principle, peter peter pumpkin eater, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Tosh, Pete Best, Peter Spring, Pete Townsend. Salt Peter, Black Peter, and of course Pteradactyl
風格近似
acoustic/electric ecclectic, asthetic and under the influence of the blues
Maryellen Healy was born in Astoria, NY to an organized, methodical working mom and a soon-to-be blacklisted union organizer. By high school in Levittown in the late sixties Healy was putting on hootenannies, leading songs and rabble-rousing her way to becoming class president.
Vincent Cerniglia was born in Brooklyn, NY. He became a boy scout, a bike enthusiast, a basketball player and a techie. He was immersed in music the whole time. He played in all night jam sessions through his teenage years.
Healy's live performances include both Oneonta College and Fair Harbor coffeehouses, Riverrun Bookstore's Monday Night Circle, Greystone Bakery Café, WBAI-FM radio and Pumpkin Sail/Sale concerts at The Eighth Step in Albany. She fronted "Mel and the Meltdowns. Both musicians were in The Hudson River Sloop Singers. Cerniglia's first live solo was at The Crypt in Brockport, In the 70s he played in few bluesbands, Uncle Tenuse and The Ugly Dirt Band in Rochester NY. Together they appeared in the bands Electric Boat, The Containers. The Woody Foul Weather Review, as well as a duet. They are currently "The Mel and Vinnie Quartet, featuring Susan Lang and Bill Wisnowski from the the famed "My Dads Truck"
As mel and vinnie they have a recording out entitled "VOODOO BLUES".
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Singer, guitarist, environmentalist, educator and organizer, Healy sings and works for causes in which she believes. She galvanized the completion of the cement-hulled sloop Sojourner Truth, a sloop Clearwater offshoot built partly by volunteers and donations. Just slightly smaller in scale than its parent, Sojourner often sailed alongside emphasizing the larger sloop's role as a flagship of the environmental movement worldwide.
Healy conceived and convened Turtle Island Sloop Club an on-line communication among activists within the Clearwater community.
Past President of the Ferry Sloops Board of Directors, Healy went on to sail as second mate aboard sloop Clearwater; she later served as captain of the ferry sloop Woody Guthrie. Whatever boat she's sailing on, she serves as a resource for history, tradition, and environmental education. She's taught on land for Clearwater, Inc., the Goddard Riverside Community Center and the Ethical Culture School Fieldston Outdoors camp. There's always music in her classroom. Trained in anthropology with a master's degree in education, Healy has been in the field teaching since 1974. She provides home-based special instruction to at-risk infants and toddlers and their parents. Still advocating!
A political activist in his youth Cerniglia joined Clearwater through the Woody Guthrie sailing program. Designer, artisan of many trades, illustrator, photographer, songwriter, guitarist and computer geek he finds blues to be a centering force in his life. After the breakup of his last band Cerniglia pursued a careet in anthropology. The responsibilities of family life led him to his current position in public service. He has a cd "doodyhead".
Healy's song, "The Sailor's Husband's Lament" appears on the Hudson River Sloop Singer's Broad Old River, a benefit album for sloop Clearwater, and is heard on WAMC-FM public radio's "Hudson River Sampler," hosted by Wanda Fisher.
They collaborate in a diverse array of projects from family life to fundraising. As Mel and Vinnie, they have appeared countless times at Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival; Pumpkin Sail venues up and down the river, Ferry Sloops fundraisers and sloop club festivals in NY and NJ. They provide a Circle of Song on the Beacon shore for the annual Newburgh to Beacon Swim Across the River to benefit River Pool at Beacon. After twenty years it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
Okay, here is our chance to help me win a record contract with Myspace Records!
I have just been selected as one of the final 5 out of 15,000 entries in the Toyota Music "Rock The Space" contest! - If we win, I will be able to record tons of my new songs and get back on the road to come perform for you all and hang out again! :)
I need you to vote for me everyday and tell all your friends to go and vote for me too!
JUST WANTED TO COME THROUGH AND SHOW SUPPORT AND RESPECT. HOPE ALL IS GOD W/YOU. CONTINUE TO HAVE A GOOD AND SAFE DAY AND FEEL FREE TO DROP THROUGH ANYTIME. ARUE.....[NY'S PERSONAL BODYGUARD}
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Mel! I've been trying to find the time to call you since I got back from Louisiana, but I've just been raked over the coals at work. I'm locked in meetings all day today and tonight is band practice. Hopefully tomorrow afternoon I can give you a call. I need to talk to you about the upcoming Asbury Park festival. Al says he'd like to get Danny Einbender, Rick Nestler, Jan Christianson, you guys, Rik Palieri, and any other sloop club folks up on the accoustic stage. Hopefully we can talk tomorrow!
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Thanks so much for your friendship, John