Joe's Pub
"fascinating & multi-lingual" - LA Times "VOCO is volkish radiance"
-LA Weekly
"the audience is transfixed"
-Dirty Linen
Moira Smiley & VOCO is a visionary blend of voices - redefining harmony singing with the power of folksong, the avant-garde fearlessness of Béla Bartók and the delicious, vaudevillian accompaniment of cello, banjo, accordion, ukelele and body percussion. VOCO brings songs steeped in Appalachia and Eastern Europe and performances that have the elegance of a string quartet and playfulness of street singing.
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The Jenkins Family band,
comprised of 5 New York City residents (Richard, Sandra, Cassandra,
Stephanie and Reid Jenkins), performs whimsical original songs and new
arrangements of jazz standards and old time fiddle tunes.
Sandra (Ma) Lynk Jenkins grew up on a dairy farm and spent her
youth singing in the Lynk family trio in her grandmother's vaudeville
shows and county fairs in upstate New York. She met Richard (Pa) Jenkins
in the chorus of a local production of Guys and Dolls, the two fell in
love, and they set off on the road in a touring jazz trio. When they
knew it was time for the band to begin, they settled in New York, and
Richard set up shop playing piano at the Nat King Cole bar to make way
for Cassandra, Stephanie, and Reid Jenkins. The three grew up studying
jazz and performing at festivals and house concerts where they
discovered their love of folk songs and old time music. Cassandra plays banjo in two all girl string bands (Uncle Earl, and the Calamity Janes), Stephanie in the old time duo (the Pearly Snaps), and Reid is a recent graduate of the Manhattan School of Music where he studied jazz violin.
Nothing beats the blend of sibling harmony and family history.
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Genres
- Hybrid, Experimental
- Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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