Mama’s Midlife Crisis

Mama’s Midlife Problems, an all-woman Celtic music group, formed in March 1998 when five Bakersfield, CA, moms and music artists began jamming, and performing together. The initial lineup included Kym Masera Taborn on fiddle, recorder, acoustic guitar, and vocals, Andrea Vehicle Nest with piano, acoustic guitar, recorder, and vocals, Rachel Neal playing lap harp, banjo, acoustic guitar, and contributing even more vocals, Jill Egland on bodhran, flute, accordion, trombone, percussion, and vocals, and Nancy Clear Blanton earned fiddle, mandolin, tin whistle, clarinet, and vocals. In the beginning, they performed a variety of Irish folk and klezmer music. After that Rachel Neal relocated aside, Kym Taborn and Andrea Vehicle Nest also remaining the group, and staying users Nancy Blanton and Jill Egland had been became a member of by Mary Fewel Tulin on 12-string acoustic guitar and cittern, and Georgann Holzer Greene on fiddle. Each of them brought solid musical backgrounds towards the group, having performed instruments given that they had been kids — Greene still takes on the same violin that she’s experienced since age group ten. The modified four-member lineup eliminated the klezmer, proceeded to go completely Celtic, and documented their debut recording, Live In the Living Room, that was released in 2000. The Mamas stability energetic personal and professional lives with executing gigs and documenting sessions. Blanton is certainly a trial lawyer; Egland is certainly a playwright, article writer and editor, public activist, and tone of voice coach; Tulin can be an organizational expert; and Greene, having retired from particular education teaching, is currently the group’s “full-time Mama.” 2001 discovers them at the job on the follow-up album, aswell as continuing to execute Celtic music in the general public schools, and in addition at shops, cafes, and restaurants, and occasions like the Kernville Bioregions Festival, plus charity fundraisers like Evening on Eye Road.