City Singers

IThe City Singers performed on August 11 at the cheshire Summer Stage

City Singers Program

Phyllis Elkind, Judy Meiselman, Bob Montgomery, and Nancy Montgomery. 

Guest appearances by Martin Hason and Nancy Keness.

Phyllis Elkind

Phyllis is a long-time member of Triboro, an acoustic trio with two CDs to their name.   She teaches a weekly Doo Wop class at the McBurney YMCA in Manhattan and a monthly Country/Bluegrass Harmony workshop at Jalopy School, in Brooklyn.  She is the founder of Freddi & the Drumsticks, an all-woman rock band in which she sings and plays keyboards, and she can be found many evenings at one or another bluegrass jam around New York City.

Judy Meiselman

Judy is a folksinger who has enjoyed performing and leading singing for most of her life.  She has shared American folk music internationally through a Cornell-State Department sponsored tour of South American and has performed in various folk clubs in Florence, Italy. She was a longtime member of the New York City-based folk quartet Joyful Noise, and is currently a member of the Threshold Chorus.  She and Nancy Montgomery entertain patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  Her great pleasure in participating in music workshops has led her to the Jalopy Music School in Brooklyn as well as the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV..

Bob Montgomery

Bob is a playwright/composer who’s taught writing for decades at Columbia University and The New School. He’s sung professionally in various NYC venues, including Lincoln Center and Manhattan Theatre Club, and happily with his wife Nancy at weddings, churches, small stages  and living rooms ever since they met.

Nancy Montgomery

Nancy is a lifelong singer who, according to her mother, “rocked in her crib singing Jingle Bells in July and at an early age sat on the porch steps singing Bell Bottom Trousers to entertain the neighbors.” For many years, she taught music to preschool children, and workshops for teachers, focusing on the use of chant, call & response, and using the body as an instrument.

Nancy and her husband Bob started singing together the day they met and haven’t stopped yet. They’ve brought their folk-tinged harmonies with guitar and harmonica accompaniment to Catskills and NYC venues and for several years, Nancy fronted a trio called Flashback, which featured the close harmonies of the Andrews and the Boswell Sisters as well as original material by Bob . Twenty years ago, Nancy was introduced to a wonderful group of musicians/singers who get together regularly to share the joy of music and friendship and it has enriched her life enormously. That’s where she met Judy and Phyllis.