Mary Shapiro
Live Music
Washington, DC, USA
Home page:	http://www.myspace.com/MaryShapiroMusic
Performing:	05/31/2008 - 10:30pm

Sat May 31 - 10:30pm-10:55pm
Cabaret Stage

"Mary Shapiro inspires, touches, and beckons us to join in the song!" -Carrie Newcomer, Grammy Award Winner, Rounder Recording Artist

"Mary Shapiro creates soulful inspiring music that appeals to a wide variety of listeners regardless of age or background."- --Tom Goss, Independent Recording Artist

Inspired by artists from Joan Baez to Jack Johnson, Mary's music infuses gospel, folk, rock & soul. Mary has recorded with Sweet Honey in the Rock and was the first ever recipient of DC Acoustic Underground's -Excellence in Local Music Award- for creating and sustaining Sounds of Hope benefit concerts in Washington, DC.

Mary's first CD is a collaboration of professionals and kids. Captured LIVE at a benefit concert for Little Friends for Peace, it's a fun, educational, sing-a-long CD (available at www.cdbaby/cd/

Mary toured 16 cities last summer and will be in Morocco, Israel, Palestine and Germany this year. Her music paints pictures of where she's been and who's she's met, in ways that let us know we're not alone.

"Mary Shapiro has a powerful gift to transform any gathering into something sacred--blending songs of peace with joy and laughter to give you the taste that 'another world is possible'" -Jean Stoken, National Policy Director, Pax Christi USA