Songwriters of Long Island’s “Sirens of Song" featuring five local women songwriters from Long Island will be performing LIVE music at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook Village (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY) on October 13th from 3-5pm. The event is free with general admission ticket purchase.
For details on this and upcoming events please visit https://www.limusichalloffame.org/museum/
About Songwriters of Long Island’s “Sirens of Song"
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
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.
Martha Trachtenberg
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.
