Long Island’s First Hall of Fame – All About Music and Entertainment!

Songwriters of Long Island presents “Sirens of Song”, featuring five different women from Long Island, each of whom will perform original songs in this very special showcase. Spend a Sunday afternoon with Lydia Von Hoff, Laurie Anne Creus, Annie Mark, Janice Buckner, and Martha Trachtenberg.

LYDIA VON HOF
Lydia von Hof is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based on Long Island. She has performed as a soloist at Madison Square Garden at a New York Knicks halftime show, The Bitter End in NYC, Rockwood Music Hall, and more. Aside from singing folk, rock, jazz, and her originals, she is a classically trained pianist and opera singer and has performed piano solos at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and has performed with the New York Opera Exchange.

Laurie Anne Creus
“Brilliant. Genuine. Wicked-talented. Take your pick.”- Brianna Coccia, Long Island Sound Love

You can hear both power and heartache in her voice. The music of Laurie Anne Creus moves with the melodic and lyrical vulnerability of ballads yet grooves with the driving beat of funk and R&B.

“With each song that comes out it’s me betting on myself and proving that what I have to say matters,” says Creus. “Growing up I didn’t see a lot of Filipino-American artists out there. But I realized if no one was going to be an example for me I have to do it myself.” – David Criblez, Newsday

Lyrically, her music encompasses themes of shattering an old self, letting go and an obsessive search for truth. Her songs, “Nothing Lasts Forever (Anicca)” and “This Time” are available now on all streaming platforms.

ANNIE MARK
Annie Mark, a New York based singer-songwriter, has shared her country-tinged Americana-roots music with audiences from Florida to Ireland, and most recently, Nashville. A New York native, she moved to the South at age 10, where upon hearing the music of the Carter Family and Johnny Cash, she nurtured a life-long love of traditional country music and songs that convey slice-of-life stories about people’s lives with a heartfelt simplicity.

Inspired by such singer-songwriters as Patti Griffin, Julie Miller, Nanci Griffith, Mary Gauthier, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan, Annie’s songs explore life’s journey and the universal themes of love and loss, struggles and triumphs, shadows and light, with a little humor thrown in. Accompanied by strong and tender acoustic guitar-playing, Annie’s richly textured voice runs the entire emotional spectrum– sometimes velvety smooth, at other times raspy and raw with a little torch and twang thrown in.

Janice Buckner
Janice Buckner is one of the most heavily booked children’s concert artists, performing over 200 shows each year. She has toured nationally and internationally since 1977, appearing on television and radio, as well as in over 4000 schools and concert halls. Ms. Buckner entertains audiences of all ages with her voice, guitars, puppets and knowledge of Sign Language for the Deaf. She is noted for her exceptional voice, her musical creativity and the outstanding quality of her lyrics.

Since 1992, she has hosted her own weekly radio show. She is a prolific songwriter, her songs appearing on her nationally acclaimed Learn Along Song® Series, as well as on CDs and cassettes of other performing artists. She has been commissioned to write material for schools, festivals, special events and companies such as MacMillan. Ms. Buckner has a dual Masters in Education and English. She received her degrees from the University of Kent in Canterbury, Boston University and L.I. University. She is a permanently certified teacher in five areas: Pre-K, Kindergarten, Elementary Grades 1 – 6, High School English and Junior High Social Studies.

Credits include:

Two European Tours, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Queen Elizabeth ll Ocean Liner, Reichold Center for the Performing Arts, Virgin Islands, International T.V. and Radio: featured interviews on London BBC2, Leicester BBC1 and Scottish National Television, National T.V. & Radio, including WNBC, WQXR, and National Broadcast and Cable Shows throughout the U.S., Radio Host for seventeen years of the Janice Buckner Learn Along Radio Show, aired out of Hofstra University 88.7 FM and heard around the world on the Internet, Producer of the Award Winning Learn Along Song CD Series.

MARTHA TRACHTENBERG
“Martha Trachtenberg has a warm heart that infuses her songs with humanity and a supple voice that makes them ring true.” – John Platt, WFUV-FM

“Highly recommended for . . . anyone interested in fine lyrics, gravelly passionate singing, and songs packed with musical integrity.” – Louisa Branscomb, Bluegrass Today

“. . . like a great letter from a friend. Perceptive and gentle songs that create enduring images and feelings.” – John Weingart, “Music You Can’t Hear on the Radio,” WPRB-FM

Martha Trachtenberg was a founding member of the Buffalo Gals, the first all-woman bluegrass band, back in the mid-1970s, aka the dawn of time.  Her 1999 CD, It’s About Time, won straight As from Newsday and radio airplay both in the States and abroad.     Martha’s songs have been recorded by a number of artists from the bluegrass world, including Tony Trischka and Skyline, Nothin’ Fancy, Missy Raines and Jim Hurst, Dede Wyland, John and Cathy Cadley, and, most recently, IBMA’s 2024 Male Vocalist of the Year, Greg Blake. She shared the bill with Janis Ian, David Bromberg, Livingston Taylor, and Lucy Kaplansky, to her infinite delight. For the past three years, she has taught and/or performed at the prestigious Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival and is slowly but surely assembling songs for another CD.  So slowly, in fact, that the working title is Better Late Than Never.

Special event dedicated to LIMEHOF inductee Pat DeRosa, hosted by his daughter Patricia DeRosa. Special video/interview presentation also includes Q&A with is daughter and granddaughter, special raffle for all attendees, and a live performance played by his family and friends. Saturday Oct. 19. Free for members and free with regular paid admission to the Hall of Fame.

Born and raised in the Three Village area, 19-year-old Becca Ryan, a local musician, enjoys sharing her passion for music through singing and playing guitar and piano.  She has been performing in a variety of bars, restaurants, and coffee shops across Long Island for the last two years. Her performances include an eclectic array of music including country, pop, oldies, and indie.  Becca is also a songwriter whose originals are peppered about her performances.  She desires to record and release them sometime in the future.

Matt and Andrew Como, are musicians (singers, songwriters and performers) from Long Island who are passionate about their songwriting, heartfelt lyrics, and recording original music. Combining a pop and rock easy listening sound with a blues vibe, they have written and recorded multiple albums and EP’s of original songs.

Matt and Andrew have had songs being featured in TV shows such as E! Networks Keeping Up with the Kardashians, MTV’s The Real World, and The Oxygen Channel’s Best Ink and on global in-store playlists for H&M, Zara, Pull Bear among others. Their videos have been playlisted in US stores like Walmart, Costco, BJs and others. The Como Brothers have established themselves as singer-songwriters working with industry legends such as drummer Steve Jordan (John Mayer, Saturday Night Live band, Late Night with David Letterman), keyboardist Andy Burton (Little Stephen & the Disciples of Soul), Aaron Sterling (Taylor Swift), and many more.

“The happiest discovery for me this summer was the arrival of the Mountain Maidens cd “We’ll Walk The Road Together.” Their vocal clarity along with creative and striking arrangements gives a new freshness to a wide variety of older songs.  They are my new favorite women’s trio — a great group.”  –Bob Sherman WFUV/WQXR radio host of Woody’s Children September 2018

Three dynamic voices blended in splendid ancient and modern harmonies that will lift your spirit, excite your senses and warm your heart.   They sing ballads, folk songs, Medieval, Irish Traditional music, love songs, country and gospel songs including themes of social justice to the accompaniment of guitars, banjo, dulcimer, bouzouki, dumbec, spoon, castanets and lots of percussion instruments including washboard.  They met at Swing The Teapot Irish Pub in Floral Park where they were singing Irish music for St. Patrick’s day they knew right then and there they would be a trio. There was instant magic,  harmony and camaraderie. Marie plays just about every string and percussion instrument there is (guitar, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, Irish Bouzouki, dumbec, bones and spoons) and sings British and American folksongs and Jewish music. Candice (Candy) Baranello is a member of the Long Island group Wild Ginger. She plays dulcimer, washboard, and bodhran and sings traditional, Old Timey, classical and gospel. Lorraine is a member of the Huntington Choral Society, plays guitar and flamenco castanets, dance board and sings in a beautiful alto. They are accompanied at special concerts by Harpist, guitarist and vocalist, Jean Farnworth and Irish Fiddler Madelaine Dillon and other talented musicians when called upon. CD release April 2018 double CD, Mountain Maidens.