... come on our to Stan Lewis' Reveler Residency ... and enjoy SOME of the MANY songs that RARELY make it into a Mebanesville set ... ;-) ... penned--usually severally--by Sherry Lea & Larry Vellani ... they MIGHT throw in a couple of the new Si Kahn tunes that they're also producing ...
Sherry Lea, Graham, NC
As a founding member and multi-instrumentalist with the versatile roots, rhythm, and world roll group Mebanesville, Sherry White Lea has sung in styles ranging from old time and roots, to country and blues, jazz and bossa, rock and pop, foreign and domestic—and performs on both of Mebanesville’s two albums (“Chiaroscuro” and “Town & Country”), as well as on two music anthologies produced by Elon University (“Christmas From Alamance County” and “Patchwork”).
Her latest album with Mebanesville, “Town and Country,” is described by Times News (Burlington, NC) long-time cultural critic, Charity Apple, as, “… a typical Mebanesville performance … something ancient, something new, something borrowed, something brewed—but all thoroughly Mebanesville In the rendering.” NC Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green, describes Mebanesville’s album as “… a potent mixed brew of cultural entanglements that remind us over and over again how music tenderly invites us across both geographical and spiritual borders. Drink these songs slowly and fully as they open our hearts and arms wider!”
Sherry loves a great song and has even managed to write a few of her own. Some of her tunes can be found at
https://www.reverbnation.com/sherrylea. She hopes you’ll like them.
Larry Vellani, Mebane, NC
Larry Vellani has performed with some of the most respected interpreters of social and narrative song and dance—in English, Italian, Spanish, and Ukrainian--including Guy and Candy Carawan, Barbara Dane, Mimi Fariña, Beppe Gambetta, Ronnie Gilbert, Rhiannon Giddens, Beverly Grant, Si Kahn, Fran McKendree, Holly Near, Bruce Phillips, Abby Sale, John Shaw, Fabio Turchetti, Baldemar Velasquez, and Salvatore Villani. He also has performed with some of the Southeast's most renowned traditional Anglo and Afro-American musicians, including Lonny Austin, Marvin Gaster, Tommy Jarrell, Lauchlin Shaw, Paul Taylor, and Joe Thompson.
In North Carolina, Larry has mounted music & theatre productions with ACT II, Alamance Arts, Alamance Childrens Theatre, Alamance Community College, Artauro Productions, The Dance Cure, Elon University, Festa Italiana Raleigh, Gallery Players, Goathouse Gallery, Johnston Community College, Odyssey Stage, Paul Green Foundation, PlayMakers Repertoire, Playwright's Forum, Raleigh Little Theatre, Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre, Sonorous Road Theatre, UNC-Greensboro, and Wake Forest University.
The immediate descendant of Reggio Emilian (Arşân ed Rèz) emigrants. Larry began collecting melodies and lyrics from his family, and later friends and professional musical influences, reflective of the reality of the uprooted and resettled. Growing up in the Hilltop Community of Columbus, Ohio during the previous century, Larry began singing in Latin and Italian before he could read in English. He’s STILL trying to learn how to sing.
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