Cindy just recorded a new CD in Nashville set for a spring 2015 release featuring some of the best musicians in bluegrass music today. This Christmas song .... "Raise Your Voices", featured for download here, came from those November 2014 sessions. Produced by Jim VanCleve, the CD's all star line up of players includes Bryan Sutton on guitar, Scott Vestal on banjo, Rob Ickes on dobro (though Rob does not appear on the Christmas song), Aaron Ramsey on mandolin and Todd Phillips on bass. Don't let the beautiful lilt of this Christmas song fool you about the CD! It has everything from foot stomping, rip roaring bluegrass, to gritty, grooving songs to the prettiest of ballads .... complete with murder, coal mining, baby stealing, civil war stories and ghosts! Plus a co-write with 2014 IBMA songwriter of the year Louisa Branscomb! As a teenager, Cindy started out playing folk and bluegrass music in the northern most reaches of Appalachia .... the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania. Branching out as a musician, and called by her youth and the times, she eventually grew away from her roots and played rhythm and blues and rock 'n roll music for many years professionally ... all the while perfecting her song writing abilities and stretching her vocal talent to new heights. Eventually the music of her origins beckoned her back and Cindy temporarily set down the guitar to learn mandolin. Now proficient on both instruments, and having a solid song repertoire of bluegrass originals, Cindy has been performing regularly in the tri-state area of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware for several years now. She is a favorite at Wilmington DE's "Winterfest" and "Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival" in Wind Gap, PA and she has also played some of the most beautiful and historical theaters in PA and NJ ... and in doing so, has opened for such national acts as the Boxcars and The Seldom Scene. In 2013 Cindy was nominated in three categories with the New Jersey Acoustic Music (JAM) Awards ... and won Top Bluegrass/Country Act. Cindy's first bluegrass CD "The Road" (also available here on CDBaby), produced a single release "444 Chicken Bone Road", which is currently receiving national and international airplay, along with a video shot in southwestern Pennsylvania for the same song (which you can see on You Tube). Her song writing has been acclaimed in Bluegrass Unlimited magazine (June 2014) as a "new and different song writing voice". She was specifically applauded on her story-songs as being "a strength of hers". Her vocal style is powerful and soulful and Bluegrass Unlimited calls her a "forceful and confident singer". Her mandolin playing gets kudos too in her original instrumental composition "Humphrey's Wheel", as "solid if not spectacular"! So take a listen to this "new and different song writing voice"! Cindy G's music has something for everybody!