traditional folksongs about women
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Robin may be the best kept
secret in contemporary acoustic music today. She is a singer-songwriter from
NYC whose music fuses folk, pop, blues and country elements into a blend she
calls "Acousticness" which is also the title of her second CD. Her debut album
"SLOW BURN" received rave reviews when released. Her songs have been recorded
on Fast Folk and Atlantic Records. She was a finalist at the prestigious Kerrville
Folk Festival (1989) in Texas, the premier songwriting festival in the country.
Robin was signed to Bob Dylan's publishing company as a writer for two years.
For the past 10 years Robin has been performing extensively for college audiences
across the U.S. along with performing at various folk venues, and touring in
Europe. Her first album "SLOW BURN" was released initially as an independent
in 1989. It was subsequently picked up for release in Europe by Swiss label
BRAMBUS Records. Robin did her first European tour in the summer of 1994 and
has spent part of every summer since touring Europe, especially Denmark. Robin
has won folk competitions in the Riverbank/Walden Radio Folk Festival and the
NJ Folk Festival, and showcased at both the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and the
Northeast Folk Alliance Conference. Among favorite gig of recent years - singing
the national anthem at Madison Square Garden in NYC for the NY Knicks! Robin
has two CDs of original music and has a new CD of traditional folk and blus
songs about women called "Images of Women."
Robin plays both guitar and banjo. She straddles the musical worlds of contemporary
singer-songwriter pop-folk as well as traditional Anglo-American folk, Afro-American
and ethnic Jewish music. She also works as a performer/clinician with world
reknown Martin Guitars. For information
on her other musical shows (besides her original music performances), scroll
down to the links below.....
"It's been a pleasure
introducing radio audiences to Robin and her songs. Songs with the power to
entertain, enthrall, educate and to heal; A musician who mixes everything from
blues to old-time banjo into a thoroughly contemporary mix." (Dave Palmater,
DJ, WUMB, Boston)
"She's definitely not just another folkie with a guitar!" (Edie Gayle
Hays, KUMR)
"Frankly, with the talent that I've heard on "Slow Burn," I'm surprised a
bigger label hasn't picked Robin Greenstein up by now."
(Folk Acoustic and Music Exchange FAME website review)
"I haven't heard anything so right-on since Carole King and Joni Mitchell
cranked out mega albums in the 1970s" (The Mining Company folk music
website)
Robin does other types of musical performances aside from her original music. They are:
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