| Kathy Sobansky has been singing since grade school,
when she first realized just what a really cool thing singing was. And since
she joined the choir in high school and found out just how even cooler it
was to sing in harmony, she set out on a years-long search to find other
people who didn't think it was at all weird to burst into song at the slightest
provocation. All through high school, college and grad school, and various
choirs and opera choruses, her search went on, giving her lots of training
and experience. She also found her lifetime soulmate Ed, when he burst into
an aria while they were decorating the Christmas tree at her sorority house.
But it wasn't until her brand new government job moved her to Maryland and
she took her newly built folk harp out to the very first Maryland Renaissance
Festival , that she found John and Don and Bob and a whole hell of a lot
of other folks in the Markland Medieval Mercenary Militia who loved to sing
- in harmony! - as much as she did! Thus she was in at the birth of the
Markland Madrigalia and a little later, a folk group who took the name "Clam
Chowder". In the twenty five years that they have been singing together
in various iterations, the thrill of hearing the voices and instruments
come together has never faded. As she always says, "In some respects,
music is even better than sex - you can do it with lots of other people
and no one gets jealous, you don't get strange diseases, and it almost always
leaves you happier afterwards!" |
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