Mighty Girl
General Info
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Genre: Indie / Pop / Rock
Location MONROE, New York, Un
Profile Views: 53678
Last Login: 11/26/2012
Member Since 1/30/2006
Record Label none,nada,zilch
Type of Label Unsigned
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Bio
Biography Lena Fahringer was destined to be in a band. Her Dad, a jet fighter pilot for the Swedish Air Force, was a guitarist who liked to play Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger tunes. When he met her mom, the daughter of Finnish composer Harri Bergstrom, she managed a music store. Odds were pretty high their daughter would be musical. "I went to a family reunion and my aunt picked up a guitar and sang 'House of the Rising Sun'. I was hooked." Lena learned guitar early on and began writing songs, one of which was played on Swedish radio when she was only 12. After moving to the States she married her husband Bill, a drummer. Together they met bassist Bob Torsello, founding member of the critically acclaimed Shrubs (his other credits include playing and recording w/ Glenn Mercer of the Feelies, jazz legend David Amram, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, and Patti's roommate from college, poet Janet Hamill). Mark Mcnutt, guitarist and Nashville transplant, was the final piece of the puzzle. Mcnutt, like Bob, is also a singer/songwriter in his own right. Mark joined the group right before the release of their first CD, "Long Gone", released in 2007. Mighty Girl's second album, "Ultraview", was released October 2010. "Lena's vocal style is a cool Nico having lunch with Aimee Mann at an uptown '60's chanteuse festival", Mike Jurkovic- Chronogram 6/07. <div style='width:120px; height:180px; margin:0; padding:0; border:0; background-image:url(http://www.cdbaby.com/Images/Links/Black-Buy_Album_100px_vert.png);'><a href='http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mightygirl2' style='display:block; padding:44px 10px 35px; margin:0; border:0;'><img src='http://CDBaby.name/m/i/mightygirl2_small.jpg' width='100' height='100' alt='Mighty Girl: Ultraview' style='border:0; margin:0; padding:0;' /></a></div> -
Members
Lena Fahringer Bill Fahringer Bob Torsello Mark McNutt -
Influences
The Muffs, The Jam, Cardigans, Petula Clark, Kent, Aimee Mann, Letters to Cleo, Television, Easybeats, Bob Dylan, Sixteen Horsepower, Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, The Jayhawks, Blondie, Wilco, T. Rex, The Revelons, Johnny Thunders, The Horse You Rode in on, The Rawtones, Louie and the Luxuries, The Cure, Pretenders, Philip Telemann, Bad Finger, Circle, Gram Parsons, REM, My Bloody Valentine,Pete Ham, The Holes, Replacements, The Minutemen, Big Star, Sparklehorse, The House Martins. The Smiths. Almost any band from Lena's birth country Sweden! Oh yeah, Capt. Geech and The Shrimp Shack Shooters!!!They Rock!! -
Sounds Like
None of the above.
Stream
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Mighty Girl posted 2 events
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Mighty Girl
New Gig announced in Rosendale, NY at Market Market on 4/27/2013 http://lnk.ms/ddxHP
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New Gig announced in Cornwall-on-hudson, NY at 2 Alice's Coffee Lounge on 3/30/2013 http://lnk.ms/dlqsB
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Market Market presents Mighty Girl
Market Market - 1 Madeline Lane on Route 32 North - Rosendale, NY 12472 UNITED STATES. Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 10:00 PM…
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posted an eventMarket Market presents Mighty Girl
Music
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11 Songs | Oct 29, 2010








