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Mary Sherhart
Mary Sherhart is
one of America's leading
teachers and performers of traditional Balkan vocal music.
Proud mom of three terrific children Soloist, Balkan Cabaret 2006 Artist Trust / Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship recipient First president Sevdah North America http://www.sevdahnorthamerica.org/
Highlights from the past
 yearAt 2009 Northwest Folklife Festival's Ottoman Showcase on May 23. Peter Lippman and I perform the gorgeous sevdalinka Kisa pada trava raste. The rich costume was generously lent by the Bosnian-Herzegovinan Cultural Artistic Association Sevdah of Seattle, Washington, directed by Denis Basic. Photo by Roger Lippman  At the Bosnian American Association of New York 10th anniversary celebration on April 25, 2009, with Sakib Jakupovic on keyboard and Raco on guitar  At the 10th anniversary of Radio Sevdah and International Women's Day in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on March 7, 2009, where I performed with Mirza Mesanovic on keyboard. These beautiful girls are members of Detroit's folklore group Bosanski Ljiljani. At the 2008 Evening of Sevdah in Seattle, Washington, November 29, 2008, with artist Nedim Hadzihamzic.  Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is committed to
the arts!
Balkan Cabaret (www.balkancabaret.com) Formed in 2001, nearly 10 years of bringing the gorgeous music of Eastern Europe to audiences across the US and Canada. How lucky can you get?  BALKAN CHOIRS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA Here is a growing list of choirs made up mostly of non-East European singers who simply love and devote themselves to learning, perfecting and performing the region's gorgeous traditional songs. This list does not include the many groups found within ethnic communities throughout North America. Balkan Babes in Victoria, BC, CANADA http://www.myspace.com/balkanbabes Born to Drone in Mountain View, CA: www.borntodrone.org Darena in Salt Lake City http://www.myspace.com/darenabalkanchoir Divi Zheni in Boston http://www.divizheni.net/ Dunava in Seattle www.dunava.org Gradina in Sebastopol, CA Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble in San Francisco www.kitka.org Mila in Minneapolis www.milavocalensemble.com Nevenka in Los Angeles http://www.nevenka.org/ Orfeia in Maryland and DC area http://www.orfeia.org/ Planina in Denver www.planina.org Podrushki in Grass Valley, CA www.balkanchoir.com Samovila in Ashland, OR http://samovila.com/ Slaveya in Washington DC www.slaveya.org Svirka in Albuquerque, NM Svitanyha in Philadelphia www.svitanje.org Yale Women's Slavic Chorus in Boston http://www.yale.edu/ysc/ Yasna Voices in Brooklyn, NY http://www.yasnavoices.org/ Zvezda, Pittsburgh: www.balkanbabes.org From the first two choirs in which I sang in the 1970's, the Koleda Ensemble choir and Ruzice Folk Choir, over the years I have had the great joy to go on to direct a number of Balkan choirs including the Sedyanka Balkan Women's Choir, Vecherinka Balkan Women's Choir, the Vela Luka Croatian Ensemble, the New Land Choir and the glorious choir which sang for the magical Narodil se Mladi Kralj productions. I feel a debt of gratitude to all those fine singers who gave me the incredible benefit of standing before their glorious music! 
As the years roll on everything seems to be getting lower and broader, but still working!  Click here for stories and photos of previous postings. To be added to my mailing list distributed by New Land Music, please send an email to: mary@marysherhart.com
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Mary Sherhart