Sally Rogers

Sally Rogers performs an evening of traditional, contemporary and original ballads and song, interwoven with stories taken from her life as a performer, a wife and a mother. Throughout her concerts,she accompanies herself on guitar and Appalachian dulcimer, or performs without accompaniment in a voice that needs no further enhancement. Reviewers have described her voice in superlatives ranging from “remarkable” to "mesmerizing.” As one critic summarized, “...it's really next to impossible to do justice to a voice of that quality.” Much of the material performed by Sally includes compositions of her own, many of which are considered classics of the folk and popular genre.

Sally has released thirteen albums, not including several collaborative projects with other artists. Her second album, In the Circle of the Sun, received the Best Folk Album of 1982 award from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD). Her 1987 album, Closing the Distance, recorded with fellow singer/songwriter Claudia Schmidt, was voted by many public radio stations throughout the country as among the ten most popular albums of the year. Sally reached a new audience with her first children's recording, Peace by Peace, in the spring of 1988. As one of the first albums to introduce children to the concept of peace on a day to day basis, Peace by Peace received wide critical and popular acclaim. Sally's second children's album, Piggyback Planet: Songs for a Whole Earth (Round River Records), featuring environmental songs for children, received the 1990 Parents’ Choice Gold Award for Audio Recording. Sally's latest recording, What Can One Little Person Do? (Round River Records), offers empowerment to young people, teaching them that each and every one of them is important as an individual. That recording won the 1993 NAIRD Award for Best Children's Recording and yet another Parents' Choice Gold Award. Soon afterwards, Sally released a compilation of traditional and original lullabies for toddlers and infants called At Quiet O’Clock (Round River Records). Sporting a cover by world-famous children's illustrator, Eric Carle, this recording too has received its share of awards including the NAIRD Award for Best Children's Recording of 1994.

1994 saw the release of a children's video produced by Academy Award-winning cinematographer George Pickow. The same year also saw work begin on illustration for Roger’s first children's book, Over in the Endangered Meadow, published by EP Dutton of New York (the people who brought us Winnie the Pooh). 1995 saw the release of Sally's long-awaited recording for adult audiences, We'll Pass Them On (Red House Records). On this recording, Sally performs half original material and half traditional ballads and songs.
 

“Whatever Sally Rogers does, she does with deep sincerity. There is an open honesty about her whole performance which is totally engaging.”
– Broadsheet, Edinburgh, Scotland

“Singer/songwriter Sally Rogers mesmerized the audience with her singing style and storytelling...her a cappella lifted my spirits to a new height of enjoyment.”
– News and Courier/Evening Post

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