Singer/songwriter Lindsay Mac offers a fresh look at folk music by vocalizing catchy, jazzy melodies while plucking her cello. Classically trained for over 15 years, Lindsay Mac is taking the cello to where it's never been before: to the spotlight as the lead chordal and rhythmic instrument - and to where it's rarely seen: popular music's folk/jazz stage. Mac's approach to her instrument varies from strumming to slapping to carefully coaxing beautiful and intriguing lines from the large wooden instrument all while making it seem, in former producer for The Pointer Sisters, Henry Gaffney's words, "as natural as rain."

In her short time on the acoustic music scene, Mac has already garnered diverse and impressive support. Lindsay has opened for KD Lang at Boston's Bank of America Pavilion, "folk godess" Catie Curtis at Pittsburgh's South Park Amphitheater and Daemon Records' group Girlyman. She made her 'cover girl' debut, donning the cover of "Strings Magazine" in its February 2006 issue.

Lindsay is now touring nationally in support of her debut album, "Small Revolution" - aptly named as Mac straps her cello to her body in order to play and sing on stage. Contributing their thoughtful and unique voices to the album are two-time Grammy-winning cellist, Eugene Friesen, famous fiddler, Matt Glaser (Rounder Records' The Wayfaring Strangers), and pianist Tim Ray (Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, Jane Siberry).

Born and raised by hard-working, party-hungry, bohemian parents in Iowa, Lindsay was fed pork tenderloin and Midwestern microbrews for breakfast (this accounts for her wholesome good looks and generally bad breath). Lindsay then set out to receive her training at The Royal College of Music in London, The San Francisco Conservatory and Berklee College of Music in Boston before eventually trading her seat in the symphony for the vagabond life of a touring singer/songwriter. Playing over 150 shows per year in the US and Canada, Mac is slowly revolutionizing the way we think about the cello while also expanding the definition of what we know the folk/singer-songwriter genre to be.

Mac has been featured on Nashville's NBC-affiliate television series, "Spotlight ON: Performing Songwriters" and "Good Morning Live" on New England Cable News. Her image appears in Guitar World, Performing Songwriter, Women Who Rock, and Harp magazines as a part of a promotion deal with the Fostex Corporation. Miss Mac has even kept up her bowing technique enough to play with jazz bass legend Charlie Haden and saxophonist Michael Brecker in Carnegie Hall as part of the JVC Jazz Festival.

Andy Thiele.
Delicately crafted exercises in tension and release, Thiele---s songs have been described as ---hauntingly beautiful--- by many listeners. From sentimental ballads to playfully finger-picked folk tunes, the stage is set for a journey through an original repertoire that deals with brooding unsatisfied songs of indecision, love, resolve, and remembrance. Thiele---s hushed, yet stirring, vocals are often likened to those of Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, and Leonard Cohen.