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Nuance is, from left, Ruth Widerski of Lexington, Jessie Samuel, Eileen Gioe, and Terri Mavros.
A capella comes to café
Wed Aug 29, 2007, 04:17 PM EDT
Nuance and NeoClassic Blend, two women’s a cappella quartets, performed at Main Streets Market and Café in Concord Friday, Aug. 24 with a mix of popular tunes including favorites “Hernando’s Hideaway” and “Weekend in New England,” as well as Billy Joel’s “And So It Goes.” The 30-minute show alternated between the two quartets with songs from the jazz, folk and popular genres.
Nuance tenor Ruth Widerski of Lexington is manager of Inforce Illustrations at MetLife and sings with Merrimack Valley Chorus. NeoClassic Blend baritone Mary Kriener lives in Lexington, and is a senior development editor for Pearson Education.
Restaurant patrons enjoyed the four-part harmony and animated delivery of the accomplished quartets. Ellen Schmidt of Concord said, “Nuance and Neoclassic Blend were both utterly delightful. With a variety beautifully arranged barbershop harmonies, their performances kept the audience in rapt attention.”
For the finale, Nuance and NeoClassic Blend invited other Sweet Adelines in the audience to join them in a performance of their International theme song “How We Sang Today.”
Eileen Gioe, an administrative assistant to the director of the technology and applied science at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H., sings lead in Nuance and is also the director of the Merrimack Valley Chorus, an award-winning Sweet Adelines International chorus located in Wilmington, Mass. Terri Mavros, a graphic designer with Wiley-Blackwell Publishing in Malden, sings baritone, lives in Windham, N.H., and is a member of the Profile Chorus in Manchester, N.H. Singing bass is Jessie Samuel from Londonderry, N.H., a systems administrator at Phillips Academy in Andover. Jessie also serves as the director of the Rhythm of New Hampshire Chorus in Derry, N.H.
NeoClassic Blend also includes Eileen Gioe as lead and Ruth Widerski as tenor, with the addition of baritone Mary Kriener and bass Barbara Moores. Barbara Moores lives in Chelmsford, and works in Lowell for HUB International New England as a personal lines account manager. Both sing with the Merrimack Valley Chorus.
Additionally, Ruth Widerski and Barbara Moores sing with the Coastline Show Chorus, the 2006 Sweet Adelines International 4th Place medalists, located in Attleboro.
