Mamalama

"The World of Color and Light"
Full length CD
is now available!
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Spring 2013 news:
Mamalama's "Same Room Twice" will be used in the soundtrack of the upcoming indie film Manhattan Romance", by Tom O'Brian.
Mamalama plays at CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors Sunday June 16, 2013

In late October 2012, Upsate Moving Images shot this music video for the title track of The World of Color and Light at Platte Clove and a field near Palenville.

Autumn 2012 news:
The World of Color and Light has been reviewed by Sharon Nichols in the September 2012 issue of Chronogram.

Envision a beckoning gate opening to an enchanted land full of magic and mystery. Because if you're into that sort of thing, you're going to cherish this recording. [...] [Y]ou'll find Saugerties's Mamalama blending myriad genres: Renaissance, Anglo-European folk, classical, psychedelica, world music – to create a stunningly beautiful, intoxicating sound that may lull you to a place of peace, if only you allow it.
Read more...

Mamalama recorded the tracks for an album of new songs called "The World of Color and Light" in October 2011. We've been playing them a lot of them in recent concerts, and now they have been recorded and mixed, with some overdubs, new instruments, and guest musicians David Gluck and Brian Macaluso. Read more!

"With intoxicating acoustic threads of harp and ethereal voice — driven by an eclectic mini-orchestra of violin, cello, upright electric bass, hammered dulcimer, french horn, tenor mandolin, music boxes and ethereal harmonies — Mamalama weaves a vibrant tapestry of chamber-folk and classical, world music, minimalism, sacred/early music, and mystical, image-rich poetry.

Listeners often recall the music of Kate Bush and Philip Glass, paired with ancient elements and modes calling to mind the soaring melodies of the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen and early polyphonic sacred music.

Front-woman Elizabeth Clark-Jerez composes music for harp and voice stemming from experiences with prayer, meditation, and dreaming. The music is orchestrated by the entire Mamalama ensemble, which is made up of many well known Hudson Valley ensemble performers including: Rusty Boris on upright bass; Eric Otner on violin/voice/french horn (Virginia Wolves, St. Marks Consort); Henry Lowengard on hammered dulcimer/tenor recorder/melodica/glockenspiel/voice (American Festival of Microtonal Music/Loser's Lounge/"Droneo"); Cornelia Logan on cello/voice; and Annie Roland (of Barely Lace) on voice/tenor mandolin.

"....a stunningly beautiful, intoxicating sound that may lull you to a place of peace, if only you allow it." (Chronogram Magazine)

"...A swirling tapestry of ancient and classical textures. I love that (mamalama) has a truly singular sound, like a musical organism..." (Paul Higgins, WKZE Radio NY)

" The music of Mamalama will reconnect you with the beauty and mystery of the universe..." (Radman X @ WVKR Radio)

"If Rivendell had a house band, Mamalama would be it!" (Elisa Nudelman Winter)

"Mamalama's music is like walking into a dream...." (fan @The Omega Institute, New York)

"The relationships between all of the different elements in nature — both the natural world and our own inner nature — are very inspiring... along with dreams, meditation and prayer, modern science, physics, mythology. Ancestors, flowers, water, light, wind, birds. And lots more water.
With our music, everything comes together very organically. It is unusually scored, with colorful paintings and descriptions of dynamics, modes, and visual forms rather than long sheets of dictated notes and rhythms. The music is as much about the individual player and their presence as it is about the notes and rhythms. What we offer to our audience is very much a true collaboration, and a living, breathing music. " says harpist, vocalist, and composer Elizabeth Clark-Jerez.

The sumptuous fruits of this organic alchemy are in verdant abundance on Mamalama's two albums "Willows and Waves" and, the most recent album "The World of Color and Light". Willows and Waves contains bewitching gems like the two radically divergent mixes of the lilting "Sparkle," a celebratory ode to the living world around us whose addictive refrain reminds that that "even the grass is listening," and "Same Room Twice," a shimmering meditation on universal entropy with glints of Philip Glass. The title track "The World of Color and Light" and "Flowers and Blood" boast lush classical orchestrations layered with ethereal choral collages, while "Light from Light" cascades with music-box-like harp and glockenspiel interplay. The music creates its own realm, and quietly draws the audience inside that atmosphere.

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mamalama bios

Elizabeth Clark-Jerez is the harpist/vocalist/songwriter for the band Mamalama.
She has been steeped in the music of many different cultures through her world travels and apprenticeships, especially the music of modern and ancient Europe (sacred, medieval, renaissance, Celtic, Greek, Calabrian, classical), the traditional music of Native North and South American indigenous people (Algonquin, Lakota, Inca), West African music, various American pop/folk/roots songwriters, and modern orchestral composers.
Her formal studies include music composition at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, and monastic music studies in a "Contemplative Musicianship" through the "Chalice of Repose Project" with Therese Shroeder-Sheker (world-renowned harpist and founder of the Music Thanatology field, i.e. music for the dying).
Elizabeth currently composes and performs her music throughout the Northeastern United States. She is also a mother, a wife, and a music teacher.

Henry Lowengard is the dulcimer hammerer, Pianica blower, recorder player, glockenspielr, and hungarian zither strummer for the band Mamalama.
He is mostly known musically as a computer music programmer and performer (RGS, LYR, BITE, Monkey) on Amigas in the 80s and 90s, now on iPhones and related devices with SrutiBox, Droneo, Tondo, synthicity itself and others). He was also a singer with the Loser's Lounge and the Empty Orchestra Cafe in NYC, an experimental autoharpist, and performer / composer with the American Festival of Microtonal Music.
He's been playing hammered dulcimer since 1985, tenor recorder since 1973, and recently restored his old hungarian zither (magyar citera) which can be heard in a few Mamalama tracks. His droning iPhone apps are featured in Pauline Oliveros's "Droniphonia(2009)."

Rusty Boris is the bass player for Mamalama. Rusty is a well known musical figure in the Hudson Valley.

Eric Ortner has been performing on the violin for over thirty years. He started studying under the Suzuki method at the age of three. This early relationship with music has created a long-lasting love affair with the violin and all genres and styles of music that has remained with him for the entirety of his life. He started studying violin under the guidance of Margaret Setviet in Buffalo, New York. Mr. Ortner?s education then continued under the supervision of Michael Hobart. He moved to New York?s Hudson Valley region in 2001 and has been performing and recording with various groups and musicians in the region ever since. One of the most prominent ensembles Eric has been affiliated with is St. Marks Consort, with whom Eric Ortner performed for five years. This group has functioned as the house band at the New York Renaissance Fair in various incarnations for the past 25 years. While in St. Marks Consort, Eric was recorded on two CDs released by iWaz music. He was a member of The Hudson River Folk Symphony in 2009 and placed in The Times Herald Record's 2010 Best of the Hudson Valley for Chamber Music Experience of the year. Eric performs in multiple styles of music including classical, rock, blues, jazz, country and bluegrass. He does not limit himself to violin, but considers himself a specialist in string instruments in general. He has performed and recorded on guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, Baglama Saz (Turkish long neck lute) and Bazouki (Greek long neck lute). He has also studied brass instruments and can play French horn and trumpet. Mr. Ortner?s current musical endeavors are primarily focused on the performance of classical music at weddings and special events.

Annie Roland adds her voice and tenor mandolin to Mamalama. She's also half of the folk group Barely Lace.

Cornelia Logan plays cello with Mamalama.

Former and occasional Mamalama players

Charlie Schikowitz was the violinist/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist for the band Mamalama for seven years.
Inspired by the folk music of his childhood in Prince Edward Island, Canada, Charlie has ventured into the music and artistic stylings of many world cultures, including gypsy-jazz, traditional middle-eastern belly dance, African drumming and dance, Irish fiddle, Brazilian capoeira, classical European music, American folk/pop/roots songwriters, and the choral music of various world cultures.
Charlie also records and performs his original music for guitar/voice throughout the Hudson Valley.

Sharon Penz plays cello and sings.
She is a classically trained musician who got pulled into the alternative and avante garde music scene through her collaborations with various theater and modern and interpretive dance pieces. Sharon has performed as a dancer and cellist in everything from Gertrude Stein to Shakespeare, and has performed with poets Jeff Davis, Phillip P. Levine, various visual artists, and many theater and dance groups. She presently performs and composes for Gnomon Shadow Theater, an eclectic multimedia theater group founded with her husband, Zzoe Rowan.
Sharon is taking a break from Mamalama. You can hear her cello and voice on many tracks of "Willows and Waves" and "The World of Color and Light".

Dave Gluck teaches at SUNY Purchase. As a founding member of Rhythm & Brass, he has toured the world as percussionist extraordinaire and has been acclaimed as a virtuoso mallet performer and drummer. Sometimes he plays with us.
You can hear his work many tracks of "The World of Color and Light".

Kikipapa (aka Kaefan Shaw), is from the West Midlands of England. He plays Celtic whistles, bodhran, djembe, didgeridoo, and various percussion objects, and joined the band Mamalama just in time to record an album with them. He says "All my other activities besides playing music — filmmaking, puppetry, acting, teaching, dancing, and so on — have really been excuses to play music". He has played with Crabtree's Evil Army, Jude Roberts, Spatter the Mud, Dr. Surf, and enjoyed a UK number one hit "The Chicken Song" with the TV puppet show "Spitting Image". He is influenced by world music, including Celtic, Sanskrit devotional, North Indian classical music, the classical European composers, and American rock/folk/blues/roots songwriters.
Kikipapa has relocated to Sweden, and so can't play with us live. You can hear him on many tracks of "Willows and Waves".

music and lyrics

Mamalama's latest recording: "The World of Color and Light".
Recorded in October 2011 at ArtFarm by Brian Macaluso of Clandestine Recording, who also mixed and mastered it.

Tracks:
1. The World of Color and Light	
2. Walk the Line	
3. Judas	
4. Music Box	
5. Light From Light	
6. Oceania	
7. Flowers and Blood	
8. Lullaby in Suspension	
9. Pangaea's Lullabye	
10. Giant Yellow Duck

All music composed and © 2011-12 by Elizabeth Clark-Jerez and Mamalama.

Elizabeth Clark-Jerez: harp, voice, music, lyrics
Charlie Schikowitz: violin, guitar, banjo, berimbau
Henry Lowengard: hammered dulcimer, tenor recorder, pianica, bell lyre
Sharon Penz: cello
Recorded at Art Farm, Accord, NY, Thanks! to Sean Boyd.
Mixed and mastered at Clandestine Studios, Rosendale, NY by Brain Macaluso
Cover paintings by Erin Victoria Dinan and Justin Love.
You can hear whole streamed tracks, and buy them on BandCamp! You can get it digitally or order a physical CD.

Here are a few tracks from this recording, and a few other ones as well....
You can purchase them from BandCamp.

The World Of Color And Light (excerpt)	Lyrics
The World Of Color and Light With this song I'll recreate the night the light the ease of our sa- cred moment living in the world of color and light. Timeless Time, Space between, Wake and dream. With this song I'll live again inside the breath of our brief flight sa- cred moment sun tucks behind pain- ted blossoms sky fills our eyes. Dusk or dawn, Space between Wake and dream, beyond the veil of our eyes pulled beneath Tides of time calling us home. This world is not my home. Inside one sacred moment is life.
Walk The Line (excerpt)	Lyrics
Walk the Line The highest heights are rattled by the wind It's a long way up, but a longer, longer, longer way down Just holding on to the seams just like a pin No threads can mend the worlds of love and sin. Walking the line between Fall in the mud and get clean. A virtue holding steady in the wind, A fragile bliss is taking root within The holy and the exhibitionist, The prude, the slut, the hunger of a kiss Walking the line between Fall in the mud and get clean. Walking between the lines See the face of death, face of light.
Judas (excerpt)	Lyrics
Judas I am in the land of Judas Does anyone know whose truth this is? As it has been woven one pull can make it come undone the Garden lay unkept, burning in the sun I am in the land of Judas everybody knows we're just a work in progress one pull of this golden thread lifts the veil over our weary head to see the world below where all the silent ugly things are hiding You who know my hiding place illuminate You must come here alone. True love won't run dry. I am in the land of Judas fruit in hand taken from the Garden does anyone know whose fruit this is? it tasted real until a taste of Kiss to forge the world below----shadows in the sun.
The Music Box (excerpt)	Lyrics
Music Box Who cast the rhythm of day? Who moves my hands to play? Who seed the flowers bloom Turning the waters with the moon? Know as everything falls apart Just to know that the sun will rise We are thrown in the alchemist's fire To forge a heart of gold Who brought me to this place? Is that who will take me out? Heavy is the veil on my face Between where I'm going, and where I come from. Know as everything falls apart Just to know the sun will rise We are thrown in the alchemists fire To forge a heart of gold And only then will I know to sing Just to know the sun will rise It is already Known.
Light From Light(excerpt)	Lyrics
Light from Light (D major) And the way to your heart is never through your head. And the way to the sun is hardly through the moon. We can drink up the sun as it enters this empty room. I can open the door.a I can welcome you in. Light from light return to the One who paints these funny scenes. I can open the door, I can welcome you in. We can smell all the flowers beauty underneath our feet above, below, a thousand names. We can feel all the wind We can drink up the stars as they poke through an empty night. We can stare in our eyes We can listen for quieter things..... Light from light return to the One who paints these funny scenes.
Oceania (excerpt) based on a true story.	Lyrics
Oceania Holding to this grain of sand Vast expanding meaningless Oceania where's the pearl? Nestled deep inside some holding on Falling down into the heart Gentle revelation love Love like blood from whitest bird Bleeding through we cannot hide Bleed straight through, sun hollow white Near the ocean where they meet Crashing waves against their feet Lovers cavernous and deep Longing for eternity Even now you take him from me Into the arms of love they take their leave She can feel his loneliness Scrape across the ocean floor He can feel her Holy kiss Healing all that's ever been He can feel her loneliness Scrape across the ocean floor She can feel his holy kiss Healing all that's even been Even now you take him from me Into the arms of love they take their leave Even now you take him from me Into the arms of Love?. Sei la mi anima.
Flowers and Blood (excerpt)	Lyrics
Flowers and Blood Love is Flowers and blood. Runs through the body Makes our hearts heavy Gift of the flowers Open like lovers Love for the painful Changes to flowers Feel how I'm broken Broke into flowers La da da da da, La da da da da Love breaks us open Open like flowers Feel how we're bleeding Welcome the flowers Blood through the body Love makes us heavy Heavy like water Water the flowers. La da da da da, La da da da da
Lullabye In Suspension (excerpt)	Lyrics
Lullaby in Suspension Moonlight From the sun Passes through me. Hold tight Let it come We're not moving. You're my night In the day Like the ocean We wave. Sunrise From a cloud Look it's blooming. Your eyes From their shroud Push and pull me. You're my night In the day Like the ocean We wave. Hold my light As a phase Like the ocean We wave. You're my night In the day Like the ocean We wave.
Pangaea's Lullaby (excerpt)	Lyrics
Pangaea's Lullaby If I lie here while you are sleeping, Do you know I am here? Like a dream upon awaking, Time will fade into the sun. Hear the drum of our hearts breaking - it is you who is my heart. My love is everlasting, Time will fade into the sun. As you go into the waking Always know I am here Greet the dawn the birds of morning Time will fade into the sun.
Giant Yellow Duck (excerpt)	Lyrics

"The World of Color and Light (Special EP)".
Recorded in October 2011 at ArtFarm by Brian Macaluso of Clandestine Recording, who also mixed and mastered it.

Featuring three tracks from the 10 track album "The World of Color and Light":


1. The World of Color and Light 
2. Light From Light 
3. Pangaea's Lullabye

Willows and Waves. Recorded in early 2010 at Digital Dave's studio by Ted Orr, who also mixed and mastered it and played tabla on the title track.

Hazel Tree
Same Room Twice
Feather and a Dream
Willows and Waves
Sparkle
Tango Del Niebla
Untied
Love Lies Sleeping
Iron Roots
Sparkle (spinning chair remix)

Executive Producer: Digital Dave
Engine-ear'd by: Ted Orr
All songs written and produced by: Elizabeth Clark-Jerez
(except "Iron Roots" written by Charlie Schikowitz)
Orchestrations by: Mamalama
Elizabeth Clark-Jerez: harp/voice/compositions
Charlie Schikowitz: violin/djembe/vocals/guitar
Henry Lowengard: hammered dulcimer/recorder/pianica
Sharon Penz: cello/vocals
Kaefan Shaw: flutes/whistles
Ted Orr: Tablas
Zzoe Rowan: hurdy gurdy
"Thanks to Where all the Music comes from..."
© 2010 All Rights Reserved

Here are a few tracks from this recording, and a few other ones as well....
You can purchase them from BandCamp.

Hazel Tree Written under water.	Lyrics
Swim down underneath the world of green hazel your seeds are dropping in the fishes deep Hazel follow me down hazel to rise above Lure you underneath the hazel tree rise above open heart receive this seed Hazel follow me down hazel to rise above
Same Room Twice A song about particle physics.	Lyrics
You cannot walk into the same room twice You cannot walk into the same room twice How you gonna change me? Feet in the tide wet and dry where the land takes drink Eyes open wide space and time always receding Particle light waves inside stars are breathing Look in my eyes it's yourself that you're seeing Everything is changing.
Feather and a Dream	Lyrics
Lai, Lai , Lai, Lai , Lai ... It was all a sheet of water Skated around on my feet To the sky there fell a ladder And it's shadow underneath There's nothing really to see here Just a choice of up or down Just to choose if you're in or out or in between If you are silent If you are sound. Lai, Lai , Lai, Lai , Lai ... So I skated around on the water As far as the eye could see Wave after wave kept crashing in But my feet they stayed straight If you only knew how free you were If you only knew how deep If you only knew how free you were You'd close your eyes to see. Lai, Lai , Lai, Lai , Lai ... Rise in my cloud Bring the water down I love you so eagerly. Your in my heart like a little bird Flown out to sea.
Willows and Waves	Lyrics
Oh love, you're not alone Under the willows Under the waves In the fire where you were forged Stardust and clay they made your name If you ever forget your home Feel how I'm beating in your veins And when all the world grows cold Stardust and clay We are the same. Always waiting Always waiting for you To drop a line To drop a feather To leave me something that's true All it takes is a little lightning to bring me back to you. A little lightning A little flood to bring me back home to you. I can't go where you are. Lift the veil.
Sparkle A song about waking up in the morning.	Lyrics
I'm waiting on the other side Come see me in the fireflies I've been here for a long long time Here watching with the GalaxEyes. Dew drops gather in the morning light. Even the grass is listening when we speak.
Tango Del Niebla Tango of the Mist.	Lyrics
Lying in my bed thinking how did you find your way in here? Came in through the curtain of a thousand shallow hours Awaiting deep Who are you that comes like this? Lifting up the veil to uncover what's been waiting on the inside Tango del Niebla can we ever sing the voice of this quiet aching? Who are you that comes like this? Only in dreams will we wake To this mess we're in Only in dreams is it safe To lean into this Wanting to love a mistake Oh this mess we're in Only in dreams will we wake To this flood.
Untied	Lyrics
I'm not afraid afraid of darkness it's you whose afraid of light. How long you've been hiding behind emptiness and pain. Fleeing the light the light of Truth and day fiending control of lives seething with rage You've been building a wall all around burying yourself inside. Come untied. It's not I who's afraid of the darkness See now it's you who won't step into the light. Not your offering. I'm not your puppet string. Nothing to hide as I become untied. Try to pull me in (way down) where I've already been long enough to know there's nothing here. There's nothing here. there's nothing here. there's nothing here.
Love Lies Sleeping	Lyrics
Felt you like the sun a slowly rising light look how the day is changing into night again I know you'd be so warm My love lies sleeping tucked underneath the leaves been tearing your roots out of me gathering all your seeds Don't make me look into you at all today it's burning out my eyes like I can choose how the waves rise and fall again like trying to change the tide my love lies sleeping only to rouse all this bloodless weeping cover me with cloud The purest love is like that cloud illuminated by the sun. The purest love is born of darkness illuminated by the sun. All I've ever wanted is love.
IronRoots by Charlie	Lyrics

Missing Piece	Lyrics
There's a missing piece That was found in you Can't I be self contained Can't I be self contained Sing through the walls to you Sing it back to me Music carries on the trees Can't I be self contained Always wanting something outside Though you seem to be inside Of my mind All the time. There's a missing piece That was found in you Can't I be self contained Can't I be self contained There's a missing piece That was never really there A little crack in a perfect heart A little break in a perfect heart Always wanting something outside Though you seem to be inside My mind Holding onto Nothing High wire walking On golden strings All tied to you Tied to you
St. Mary of the Snow The end chant is in Hawai'ian describing movement of water	Lyrics
White moths Touch my skin Try to open Try to let them in One sweep of wing turns the body into snow. White moths Fall through darkness to the flame Snow white body Pushes darkness from their wing. One sweep of wing turns the body into snow. Mary. Na koo loo Kawaii Na koo loo koo loo Kawaii

upcoming events <

June 2013

Saugerties Farmers Market "Farm Animal Day"Saturday, June 1st, 11AM-2PM
Saugerties, NY
115 Main Street
COSM Sunday June 16, 2013
CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
46 Deer Hill Rd, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
Call: 845.297.2323 Fax: 845.632.3879
New York Faerie Festival, June 28,29,30 2013. http://www.nyfaeriefest.com Ouaquaga, NY (near Binghamton, NY)

July 2013

Omega Institute , Saturday July 20, 2013. Rhinebeck, NY
BSP lounge , Sunday July 28, 2013.
with VUVUZELA
details TBA. Kington, NY

August 2013

Two Row Wampum Festival , August 3, 2013. Beacon, NY

past events

You may have heard us here! If you have pictures, recording or video, we'd love to see them because we are underdocumented.

See Past Events

We often play in the NYC subways as part of the "Music Under New York" program of the MTA . Usually, we are seen in the Graybar Passage of Grand Central Terminal or at the Times Square station near the Shuttle.

Beltane, Saturday April 27 , 2013. (rain date, Sunday the 28th) http://symbolicstudies.org/css-festivals/beltane-2013/ Center for Symbolic Studies,
Tilson, NY
Woodstock Goddess Festival, Sat Mar. 9, 2013
at The Colony Café in Woodstock, NY.
9:00 PM.
Some details here (Facebook group)!
Kripalu, February 9, 2013
West St. and Richmond Mountain Rd
Lenox , MA, 01240
(866) 200-5203
Sinterklaas Festival in Rhinebeck, Sat, December 1st,2012.
Rhinebeck, NY
Details TK.
Old Glenford Church, Friday, November 30th.

210 Old Route 28,
Glenford, NY, 12433, US
Boston Yoga and Chant Festival, Sunday, October 20th.

Regis College Fine Arts Center
235 Wellesley St.,
Weston, MA
Vanderbilt Mansion Gardens performance, Sunday, September 23rd.
Hyde Park, NY
2:00 pm
FREE!

Mamalama will be playing in the full blooming gardens at the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park NY Sunday, September 23rd at 2pm. Bring a blanket, perhaps some lunch... make a day of it. There are beautiful hiking trails on site that meander down by the river. Very old trees everywhere. Stonework, sculptures, flowers galore. It will likely be a gorgeous day. Event cancelled if it's raining.

Mamalama will be joined by the lovely Rusty Boris on electric upright bass, with Elizabeth Clark-Jerez on harp/voice, Henry Lowengard on hammered dulcimer/flutes/melodica/music boxes, and Charlie Schikowitz on fiddle/mandolin/banjo. The show will open with a few songs by flamenco/persian blues guitarist Marc Sloan.
Gershwin Hotel Thursday Aug 2nd 2012
8PM
7 east 27th street, new york, ny 10016
phone: 212.545.8000
BSP lounge Friday Aug 3rd 2012 , 11:00PM
$5, 18+, doors at 9PM
BSP Lounge
323 Wall St.
Uptown Kingston NY
WIOX-FM, Roxbury NY 91.3FM, wioxradio.org (stream) Saturday Aug 4rd 2012 , 6-7 PM
Mamalama on the "Saturday Crackle" with Terry Doyle.
The Bearsville Theater Monday July 30th 2012
With our friendly acts Marc Sloan and Mona Cedar And Jeff Boynton
291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
(845) 679-4406
Omega Institute Saturday July 21th 2012
Rhinebeck, NY
Sunday July 1st
Cafe Mezzaluna
11am-2pm (mellow and delicious brunch, purple walls, strong coffee, lovely people)
Route 212 Saugerties NY
Monday July 2nd
BUSKING NYC MUNY (MUSIC UNDER NEW YORK) STYLE
Grand Central/Graybar Passage (near Lexington Ave. exit)
3-6pm
then off to....
Times Square/42nd Street (near the "S" and the video place that almost always plays Michael Jackson videos)
6-9-pm
John Street Jam, Saturday, June 30, 2012
John Street (Dutch Arms Chapel)
Saugerties, NY
$5 - benefits Food Pantry
212-777-7447
Bearsville Theater April 7, 2012, Doors open: 8:00 PM
"The World of Color and Light" CD Release Party Show!
With opening act Marc Sloan

The Bearsville Theater website
This is the full length version of the EP we made at the very end of last year.
291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
(845) 679-4406
Woodstock Goddess Festival, Sat Mar. 10, 2012
at The Colony Café in Woodstock, NY.
8:00 PM.
Some details here (Facebook group)!
WVKR, Wed Mar. 7, 2012
Radioactive Lunch with Radman X.
12:00 noon.

WVKR's website,
Radioactive Lunch's website
The Towne Crier open mic finals, Jan 8, 2012
Pawling , NY
Mamalama duo acoustic harp/voice at The Towne Crier invitational open mic finals;
The winner opens for a national touring band!
And... lots of other worthwhile acts!

Mamalama was voted a runner up, and so we will be opening for some national touring show at the Towne Crier this year!

Towne Crier
130 Route 22, Pawling, NY 12564
7PM and on.
First Night Saratoga, Dec 31st, 2011
Saratoga , NY
Playing in the Saratoga Arts- Gallery, 320 Broadway, 7PM, 9PM, 11PM
Happy New year!
Sinterklaas in Rhinebeck, Saturday, December 3rd. 2:30 pm
Third Lutheran Church
on Livingston Street: Walk North on Center St. from the Town Hall or East on Livingston
Rhinebeck, NY
The Marathon of Dreamers, Saturday, October 1st.
Part of Ione's Annual Dream Festival, a Deep Listening Space event!
3:00 PM
Stella May Productions, 101 Greenkill Ave, Kingston, NY
Tivoli Street Painting Festival, Sunday, October 9th.

Tivoli, NY around 1ish
Vanderbilt Mansion Gardens performance, Sunday, September 18th.
Hyde Park, NY
2:00 pm
Arkville Flood Felief Benefit ConcertSaturday, September 10, 9:10PM - 9:40PM
Casey Joe's, Arkville, NY
By Donation! It's a benefit with lots of bands!
Beacon Farmers MarketSunday, September 11th
Beacon, NY
Saugerties Farmers Market "Farm Animal Day"Saturday, September 3rd, 11AM-2PM
Saugerties, NY
115 Main Street
The weather was unkind to our stringed instruments!
John Street Jam, Saturday, August 13th, 2011
In Saugerties: this is actually an Elizabeth C-J solo act.
212-777-7447
Hudson Music Festival, Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Mamalama (E + H version) plays at the J. Damiani Gallery Tent,
237 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534,
12PM-2PM
Hudson Music Festival, Friday, August 12th, 2011
Mamalama (Elizabeth , Henry, Sharon) plays Helsinki Hudson at 9:00 - 9:30pM
405 Columbia Street
Hudson, New York 12534
518.828.4800
This was broadcast live on WGXC-FM, 90.7 in Greenand Columbia counties, and on the internet at www.wgxc.org .
hey, we came late due to traffic, but made it onstage at 9PM!
LeClaire Lounge, Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
A new-ish Mediterranean hookah lounge on the Lower East Side: 189 E 3rd St. New York, NY 10009
212-777-7447
Sunset Concert Series Friday July 1st, 2011
Glasco Mini Park, Saugerties, NY
Shrine World Music Venue: Wednesday, June 29, 2011. 8PM - 10PM
2271 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, NYC. (@ 134th st)
Shrine is a multimedia arts and culture venue, founded in 2007 by musicians and music lovers in the music capital of Harlem, USA. We are dedicated to art and culture in all mediums: film, theater, dance, and live music. Shrine World Music Venue's mission is to establish a positive creative atmosphere for both artists and audiences from all backgrounds.
Elmendorph Inn's Acoustic Medicine Show Saturday, June 18th, 2011
7562 Route 9, One block north of the intersection of Broadway (Rt. 9) and E. Market St. (Rt. 199) , Red Hook, NY
8PM
/root Saturday, June 11th
60 Main St., New Paltz
8PM
Phirst Phriday Phoenicia June 3, 2011
9PM,Arts Upstairs, Main St. Phoenicia NY
Omega Institute Saturday June 4th 2011
Rhinebeck, NY
Evening show at the Lake Theater
Montauk Music Festival May 14/15 (Saturday/Sunday)
Montauk, NY
We played at the Montauk Manor, Saturday night 8:30 PM - 11:00 PM, and Sunday Brunch (10AM-11:30AM) at Gurney's.
May Day Fairie Festival, Apr 29,30,May 1, 2011
At Spoutwood Farm,
4255 Pierceville Rd.,
Glen Rock, PA 17327
We played at both stages, a little windy on Friday, a little muddy on Sunday !
Mountain View Studio, Woodstock NY Saturday April 9th 7:30-9ish
We will be part of the TransFormative Journeys art/music/dance/film event.
MARKET MARKET Saturday, April 16th.
1 Madeline Lane, on Rt. 32, Rosendale, NY
(845) 658-3164
Cafe Mezzaluna Sunday April 17th 11AM-2PM
Route 212 Saugerties
Woodstock Goddess Festival, Sat Mar. 12, 2011
at BSP, 323 Wall St. in uptown Kingston.
8:20 PM.
Some details here (Facebook group)!
MUNY: Grand Central Terminal, Graybar passage Saturday, Feb 26, 2011, 3PM
A relatively quiet part of Grand Central, nice acoustics!
Bearsville Theatre, Feb 11, 2011
291 Tinker St Bearsville/Woodstock NY
(845) 679-4406 Door: 8PM show: 9PM
$10
2 Alices: Feb. 4, 2011
311 Hudson St.
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
7PM- 9:30PM
with Vuvuzela (featuring members of Kiss Kiss)
and Horrah! A Bolt of Light
Show starts at 7PM.
First Night Saratoga! Dec 31, 2010, at the Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, 7PM, 9PM, 11PM
Great fun, pleasant evening!
We're going back next year!
MUNY: Grand Central Terminal, Graybar passage Sunday, Dec 19, 2010
A relatively quiet part of Grand Central, nice acoustics!
Grand Central Terminal, NYC! Nov 19, 2010. Part of the "Music Under New York" program of the MTA .
October 13th WVKR 91.3 "Radioactive Lunch" Vassar College 11AM-1PM
We had a fun time playing while crowded around two mikes, reading Rumi, and looking for children.
You can now hear this show on the Radioactive Lunch Website
October 10th: Beacon Farmers' Market
October 9th: Saugerties Farmers' Market
September 22nd: Woodstock Farm Festival/Market
September 10, 2010: Mamalama and Andes Manta at the Colony Cafe, Woodstock, 8PM
This was a great show featuring the amazing Andes Manta family, playing tables and tables of handmade pan pipes and other Andean instruments. There was singing, dancing, Amazonian rainforests, and different sizes of charangos. Mamalama's core group was augmented by guest drummer Steve Collins, and we played a bit with Andes Manta. Sorry - no recordings were taken that I know of!

Mamalama has performed throughout the Northeastern United States at such venues as The Towne Crier Café in Pawling NY, The Sinterklaas Festival in Rhinebeck NY, The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck NY, The Vanderbilt Mansion Gardens in Rhinebeck NY, Tivoli Street Painting Festival in Tivoli,NY, The Shrine in Harlem, NYC, The Gershwin Hotel in Manhattan, NYC, The Woodstock Goddess Festival NY, Midsummer Night's Dream Faerie Festival and Masquerade Ball NY, Organic Rock Concert, Rosendale NY, Hudson Music Festival, Hudson NY, Montauk Music Festival, Montauk NY, The Colony Arts Center, Woodstock NY, PhotoSensualis Art Gallery, Woodstock NY, The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock NY, Spoutwood Farm Faerie Festival, PA, Caravan of Dreams, NYC, Deep Listening Space Dream Festival, Kingston NY, Mountain View Studio, Woodstock NY , MARKET MARKET, Rosendale NY , Mezzaluna, Saugerties NY , The Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale, NY , The Adorno Sound Project, at Columbia University's Teacher College, and has performed live on WKZE radio's "Nightshade" with Paul Higgins, WDST radio Woodstock, WVKR Vassar College Radioactive Lunch with Radman X, and is an official performing artist with MUNY (Music Under New York), playing music for mass transit throughout NYC subways and rail stations.

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The woodsy-watery photos on this site are by Michelle Abeloff. She took them at the Peekamoose water hole in the Catskills, NY.

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Watch the a new music video by Upstate Moving Images !

Willows and Waves, Bearsville Aug 2012 by Upstate Moving Images
Natalie Hanson posted these videos from the Omega Institute show (2011) on Facebook: