WARDSBORO — On Saturday, Aug. 8, at 7 p.m., West Townshend-based singer-songwriters Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson, the husband and wife folk duo Hungrytown, will debut their new CD Further West at a record release show in Wardsboro's Town Hall. Admission is $10 at the door.
This one-time performance on their home turf will feature long-time collaborator, cellist Suzanne Mueller and Vermont fiddler Lissa Schneckenburger; both played with Hungrytown on this latest recording.
Further West, their third album, was recorded in Vermont over a two-month period between tours of Europe, North America, and New Zealand. It was made possible through a grassroots network of fans who raised more than $15,000 in a “Let's Put Hungrytown On the Map” crowd-funding campaign.
Mueller is a native and resident of Long Island, NY. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School. She performs with numerous groups and in 2013, she released her first solo CD, Solitaire, featuring a number of premieres, several written especially for her. She can be heard on nine CDs in addition to her own.
Raised in a small town in Maine and now living in Vermont, Schneckenburger began playing fiddle at the age of six. In 2001, she graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music with a degree in contemporary improvisation, and since then has been performing around the US and internationally for a growing audience of enthusiastic listeners. She has recorded eight CDs, (five solo and three with various groups.