Cindy Mangsen

Warm soprano vocals are coupled with skill about a number of acoustic devices by Vermont-based songstress Cindy Mangsen. Similarly effective with traditional Scottish ballads as she actually is with tunes by modern singer-songwriters including Jack port Hardy, Jean Ritchie and her spouse, Steve Gillette, Mangsen offers alternated between single recordings, duo albums with Gillette, duo albums with Anne Hillsides, and trio albums with Hillsides and Priscilla Herdman. Mangsen grew up inside a musical family members. Her father performed a number of devices, while her sister performed harpsichord. Mangsen’s musical profession started after her proceed to the Chicago region in the first 1970s. She became a normal performer in the Aged College in Chicago as well as the Ark in Ann Arbor. In 1980, Mangsen came back towards the East Coastline to attend their state University of NY in Albany. After getting a master’s level in collection sciences, she had taken a job being a librarian at Bennington University in her hometown. Mangsen fulfilled Gillette, who shortly joined up with her in Vermont, in 1978. Mangsen provides collaborated with Anne Hillsides since her 1983 debut record, VERY LONG TIME Travelin’, which highlighted Hillsides’ vocal harmonies. Hillsides has continuing to sing on Mangsen’s following single albums. In November 1994, Mangsen and Hillsides released their initial duo album, Hardly ever Grow Old, offering guest performances by Gordon Bok, John Hartford, Laurie Lewis, Tom Paxton, John Roberts & Tony Barrand and Carla Sciaky. Their second duo record, Hardly ever Grow Up, released in 1998, highlighted support from Jan Burda, Michael Cooney, Steve Gillette, Priscilla Herdman, Carla Sciaky, Rosalie Sorrels, Pete Seeger and Dave Truck Ronk. Mangsen and Hillsides joined up with with Priscilla Herdman for the trio album, Tone of voice, in 1990. The record was known as “a clinic in tranquility” with the Hartford Advocate. Their second trio cooperation, Voices of Wintertime, released in Dec 1997, was a seasonal special event recorded throughout a trio concert tour. Mangsen and Gillette possess documented two albums jointly — RESIDE IN Concert, recorded on the Ark in 1993, and 1996’s The Light of your day.