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Colleen Sillver
Colleen Sillver, lives in California on a 10 acre White Oak Forest.
She has been playing music since the 4th grade, where she was taught to play cello. she currently plays Mandolin and Guitar. She started writing songs 30 years ago.
Most of her songs have a fast paced dance tempo that gets people moving. She can walk into a venue, see people bored out of their minds, and when she starts playing, within a few minutes they have perked up and are dancing in their seats. From playing many bar scenes,
and outside stages, she has mastered getting people's attention with the words, and tempos of her well crafted songs. She goes in to a venue to rock the room and she drives all the way through to the last song played.
Her song "Go With the Angels" is in a great movie, "Under the Board Walk"
A documentary about the Santa Cruz Ukelele Club. She is the only one playing mandolin doing an instrumental version during a beach memorial -10 minutes of the movie.
The Record "American Boys" was written to her family and friends. She had a spinal injury and it was questionable if she would live thru it. "Sierra Mountains" was composed at Strawberry Music Festival, in the handicapped camping section. She was wondering if she would ever walk correctly ever again let alone climb to the top of a mountain.
Music is what saved her life. The rhythm and the oxygen one breathes to sing. It is very healing.
Lately she is working on a new Cd. Slower songs, some love-gone-bad, love-is-great and some wow-you-are-wonderfuls. Then mixed with some fast dance songs.The title, " Burning Down the Tracks" is a nice fast pace Nashville sound with electric guitar instrumentation. She says she got to sing this song in New York City in a window way up in a high rise for a big comedy club. The song is about working in New York City and taking the train home every night. when she worked there as a dress/ blouse designer.
Colleen produces lyrics, melodies and vocals for Americana, Alt-Country, Alt-Folk, and Easy Listening Genre. She has songs that have originated from the theory of old folk melodies that have been stretched with a jazz chord twist. Some of her songs blend several theories giving them an individualistic integrity. The highest values of her compositions have come from a traditional framework but with more current embellishments. This is inspiring all of her music. She has an original compositional mind. Words of songs come easy to her, many are lost to the wind, sung once while driving or standing out on the flower farm, never written down.
Currently writing for Americana, Acoustic, Country, Folk and Bluegrass, some leaning towards a jazz chord progression. She has several Cd's worth of new songs not recorded yet. You just have to be there to hear them.
Colleen has a trained high soprano voice, with a range of 4 octaves. She use to sing classical concerts, in order to keep her voice strong and consistent with a driving force to it.
She sang the "Requeim" by John Rutter, in New York City , at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. Then her band did 6 nights of gigs through out New York City.York City.
she plays mostly performances throughout California as an independent grass root musician. Colleen said, " An email comes through and someone is inviting me to some distant stage, like being the Valentine act for Sexy Sunday, that was cool."
Coming from an orchestra background, of playing cello and violin, she now plays
mandolin, and some cello, as well as rhythm guitar. She mostly plays rhythm guitar on stage and likes the results of the other players handling the leads.
Jim Lewis is her full time Bass Player. HE is a rock solid stand up bass guy. Alot of her music is dedicated to him. He has been there thru it all.
Mustang Records is now distributing her CD as an independent grass roots artist. The CD is being aired across the U.S.and throughout other countries.
As a songwriter, and BMI member, she currently is performing around the U.S., and
working with Nashville for recordings.
Colleen owns a Flower Farm by the ocean. She has grown 10's of thousands of flowers for enjoyment. On top of playing music she loves horticulture. She loves Dahlias and all other flowering plants. She loves butterflies, birds and forest animals. There is an outdoor stage on the property that for many years has become a private hub for musicians to come and play for 100's of people who come to hear great song writers, eat gourmet foods and walk thru the gardens.
Mustang Records
p.o. 1149
Carmel, Calif. 93921
Email: elkhorng@earthlink.net
Phone Direct: 831- 763-9251
