SALLY FINGERETT RESUME (as of 2020)
TOURING HISTORY OF STAGED MUSICAL REVUES SOLO 2017-Present “The Mental Yentl, Songs and Stories from a Lifelong Student of Crazy”
WITH THE 4 BITCHIN’ BABES 2015- Present “Hormonal Imbalance V2.5, Babes’ 25th Anniversary Revue“ 2012- 2015 “Mid Life Vices…A Guilt Free Musical Revue’ 2008-2012 “Diva Nation…Where Music Laughter and Girlfriends Reign” 2004-2008 “Hormonal Imbalance…A Mood Swinging Musical Revue” 2002-2004 “Some Assembly Required...More Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” 2000-2002 “The Babes, Beyond Bitchin” 1997-2000 “Gabby Road, Outta The Mouths Of Babes” 1995-1997 “Fax It, Charge It, Don’t Ask Me What’s for Dinner...More Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” 1990-1995 “Buy Me, Bring Me, Take Me, Don’t Mess My Hair, Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” CDs I and II
AS AN ACTRESS NON MUSICAL 2001 8 shows with The National Touring Company of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Regional guest celebrity at the Wexner Center OSU, Col. OH.
RADIO AND TV APPEARANCES (a sampling)
Songs at the Center, PBS National Syndication What’dya Know with Michael Feldman, NPR Synd The World Café, NPR Synd. Mountain Stage, NPR Synd. The Maxwell House Sessions, CMJ Synd. The Mental Yentl Radio Hour, XM/Sirius Sonya Friedman Live, CNN Circles In The Stream, WUMB Boston D'Art Profile, WOSU-TV Columbus, OH Folk Stage, WFMT for XM Radio The World According to US, WGBH & Lifetime Sunday Morning CBS with Charles Osgood Lifelines Live - Peter, Paul, & Mary PBS National
DISCOGRAPHY SOLO
“Enclosed” Amerisound 1983 “Unraveled” Amerisound 1990 “Ghost Town Girl” Amerisound 1995 “My Good Company” Shanachie Entertainment 1998 “A Woman’s Gotta Do Her Thing” Shanachie Entertainment 2004 “The Mental Yentl, Songs from a Lifelong Student of Crazy” Green Fingers Music & Press 2015
DISCOGRAPHY W/ THE FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES
“Buy Me, Bring Me, Take Me, Don’t Mess My Hair, Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” Vol. 1 Rounder Records, 1990 “Buy Me, Bring Me, Take Me, Don’t Mess My Hair, Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” Vol. 2 Rounder Records, 1993 “Fax It, Charge It, Don’t Ask Me What’s for Dinner, More Life According to FBBs” Shanachie Entertainment, 1995 “Gabby Road, Outta The Mouths Of Babes” Shanachie Entertainment, 1997 “The Babes, Beyond Bitchin” Shanachie Entertainment, 2000 “Some Assembly Required...More Life According to Four Bitchin’ Babes” Shanachie Ent., 2002 “Hormonal Imbalance, a Mood Swinging Musical Revue” Hem & Haw Productions, 2006 “Diva Nation, Where Music Laughter and Girlfriends Reign” Hem & Haw Productions,2009 “Mid Life Vice, A Guilt Free Musical Revue” Hem and Haw Productions, 2012
SONGS INCLUDED ON COMPILATIONA CD PROJECTS
“On A Winter’s Night” Rounder Records w/ Judy Collins, Shawn Colvin, Cheryl Wheeler &more “One Meatball” a tribute to Dave Van Ronk, w/ Jeff Daniels, Tom Paxton, & more “When October Goes” Rounder Records w/ Julie Gold, Cliff Eberhardt, John Gorka & more “Follow That Road” Rounder Records w/ Kate Taylor, Ellis Paul, Susan Werner & more “Where Are My Headphones” w/ Richard Thompson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, & more “Laugh Tracks” Shanachie w/ Peter and Lou Berryman, Dave Van Ronk & more “Big League Babe” Chistine Lavin Tribute w/ Dar Williams, Andy Breckman & more “Sounds for the Soul” the New Jersey Project w/ Bruce Springstein, Tom Waits, & more “Celebrate Jewish Love Songs” Craig&Co w/ Klezmatics, Soulfarm, Rick Recht & more “The World Is A Narrow Bridge” Craig&Co w/ Debbi Friedman Neshama Carlebach & more “The Heart of the Matter” AIDS Benefit w/ Tuck and Patty, Betty, David Wilcox & more “Women of Kerrville” Silverwolf w/ Karen Taylor Good, Burns Sisters & more “Just One Angel” Yellowtail Records, Jeff Daniels, Janis Ian, Lori Lieberman & more “In My Room” DC Anderson Benefit MS, w/ Mike Reid, Victoria Shaw, & more “Best of American Indie Music” Music Match w/ Tom Kimmel, Jimmy Landry & more
PUBLISHED COMPOSED WORKS IN SHEET MUSIC BOOKS
CONTEMPORARY CABARET SONGBOOK, Hal Leonard Pub. With Stephan Sondheim, Fred Ebb, John Kander, Tony Bennet, Liza Minelli
THE FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES SONGBOOK, Hal Leonard Pub. With Julie Gold, Christine Lavin, Megon McDonough
FOLLOW THAT ROAD SONGBOOK, Hal Leonard Pub. With Tom Paxton, Jonathan Edwards, Buddy Mondlock (Sally’s I Wanna Go Home)
THE BOTTOM LINE 20TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION, Hal Leonard Pub. With Kris Kristofferson, Janis Ian, Rosanne Cash, Suzanne Vega
TZEDEK TIRDOF, THE SOCIAL ACTION SONGBOOK, Transcontinental URJ Books With Craig Taubman, Doug Colter, Doug Mishkin, Noam Katz
PUBLISHED WORKS (PROSE & HUMOR)
LIFE’S A STITCH Random House, with such writers as: w/Erma Bombeck, Molly Ivans, Gloria Steinem, Wendy Wasserstein, Cathy Guiswaite
NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BOOK, ON HOME IMPROVEMENT Publishing Syndicate
COLUMBUS MONTHLY “The Days of Wine and Girl Talk” Sept. 2001 “Turkey, Tableware and a Grand Entrance” Nov. 2001 “Snow Time to Slow Down” March 2002 “Starry, Starry Night” June 2002 “Bag o’ Taxes, Cup o’ Joe” April 2003
THE MENTAL YENTL, STORIES FROM A LIFELONG STUDENT OF CRAZY, Green Fingers Music and Press, LLC 2015 SAMPLING OF ENGAGEMENTS (Gigs, not proposals of marriage! Solo and/or with the Four Bitchin’ Babes)
Jewish Music and Heritage Fest, NY City Merlefest, Wilkesboro, NC Music in the Mountains, Steamboat, CO Wadsworth Theatre, UCLA, CA Strings in the Mountains, Grass Valley, CA Clark Center, Arroyo Grande, CA Kerrville Folk Fest, TX Great American Music Hall, San Fran, CA Philadelphia Folk Festival, PA The California Center PAC, Escondido, CA Vancouver Folk Fest, BC Canada Carpenter Performing Arts, Long Beach, CA Carnegie Hall, NYC The Bankhead Theatre, Livermore, CA The Bottom Line, NYC Taylor Meade Perform Arts, Stockton, CA Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, NYC Mystic Theatre, Petaluma, CA BB Kings, NYC Frieght and Salvage, Berkeley, CA The Egg, Albany, NY Cascade Theatre, Redding, CA Landmark on Main, Port Washington, NY Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA Chicago Folk Fest at Ravinia, IL Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA Greater Chicago Jewish Folk Arts, IL The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA Williamson Theatre, Staten Island, NY The Barns at Wolftrap, Vienna, VA Munson Williams Proctor Inst. Utica, NY The Pavillion Theatre, Norfolk, VA Earville Opera House, Earlville, NY Court Square Theatre, Harrisonburg, VA Center for the Arts, Homer, NY Theatre at Limekiln, Lexington, VA Smith Opera House, Geneva, NY Franklin Park, PAC, Princeville, VA Emelin Theatre, Mamaronek, NY Whittman Auditorium, Roanoke, VA Lisner Auditorium, Washington DC Black Friars Playhouse, Staunton, VA Kennedy Center Carl Reiner Tribute, DC The Old Town School, Chicago, IL Winnipeg Folk Fest, Manitoba, CN Krannert Center, Champaign, IL Edmonton Folk Fest, Alberta, CN Centre East, Skokie, IL Greatwoods Folk Fest, Mansfield, MA Fermilab, Batavia, IL Alaskan Bald Eagle Fest, Haines, AK Space, Evanston, IL Three Rivers Arts Fest, Pittsburgh, PA Sangamon Aud. Springfield, IL Summer Fest, Milwaukee, WI Arcada Theatre, St. Charles, IL Greater Columbus Arts Fest, OH Castle Theatre, Bloomington, IL Waterville Valley Music Fest, NH Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, IL South Florida Folk Fest, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Dunham Theatre, Edwardsville, IL Arts On The Green, Coeur D'Alene, ID Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL Albany Monteith River Park, Albany, OR Moraine Valley, Palos Hills, IL The Seattle Zoo, WA Coll of Du Page, Glen Ellyn, IL Coll of Lake County, Grays Lake, IL Broward Center PA, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Freedom Hall, Park Forrest, IL Tampa Bay PAC, Tampa, FL The Coronado, Rockford, IL Weidner Center, Green Bay WI Chandlers Hall, Schaumberg, IL The Madison Civic Center, Madison WI Govenors State, University Park, IL Oshkosh Opera House, Oshkosh, WI Stephens Auditorium, Ames, IA Thrasher’s Opera House, Green Lake, WI Englert Civic Center, Iowa City, IA UW Parkside, Kenosha, WI Pella Opera House, Pella, IA Lake Superior Big Top, Bayfield WI Russell Hall, Cedar Falls, IA Irving Young Auditorium, Whitewater, WI The Arts Center, Council Bluffs, IA The Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN Hawkeye Comm., Waterloo, IA The World Theatre, Minneapolis, MN The Bridgeview Center,Ottumwa, IA Reif Arts Center, Grand Rapids, MN Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines, IA McNair Studio, Bass Hall, Ft. Worth, TX The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI Mucky Duck, Houston, TX Wharton Center Perf. Arts, East Lansing, MI One World Theatre, Austin, TX Sanders Theatre, Cambridge MA Edison Theatre at Wash U, St. Louis, MO Berkely School of Music, Boston, MA Joplin Memorial Hall, Joplin, MO Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA Stadium Theatre, Woonsocket, RI West Hampton Perf Arts, W. Hampton, NY Greenwhich Odeum, Greenwhich, RI IMAC, Long Island, NY Charleston Heights Arts, Las Vegas, NV Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, ME Colonial Theatre, Idaho Falls, ID Unity Center Performing Arts, Unity, ME Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT The Myrna Loy Center, Helena, MT Peery’s Egyptian Theatre, Ogden UT The Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT TLA, Philadelphia, PA Kimo Theatre, Albuquerque, NM Rose Lehrman Perf Arts, Harrisburg, PA Union Colony Civic Center, Greeley, CO Gordon Center, Owings Mills, MD Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO The Rams Head, Annapolis, MD The Boulder Theatre, Boulder, CO Weinberg Center, Frederick, MD Air Force Academy, Denver, CO Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA Vilar Center for the Arts, Beaver Creek, CO Imperial Theatre, Augusta, GA Rich Forum, Stamford, CT Cobb Civic Center, Marietta, GA Quick Center for Perf Arts, Fairfield, CT Chastain Park, Atlanta, GA Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT Kravis Center Perform Arts, Palm Beach, FL Topeka Performing Arts Center, Topeka, KS Civic Center, Ft. Walton Beach, FL Kirkland Perf Arts Center, Kirkland, WA Sarasota Opera House, Sarasota, FL Bishop Center Perf Arts, Aberdeen, WA Mahaffey Theatre, St. Petersburg, FL Backstage, Seattle, WA Sunrise Theatre, Ft. Pierce, FL Washington Center Perf Arts, Olympia, WA Peabody Auditorium, Daytona Beach, FL Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA Everett Performing Arts Center, Everett, WA Ohio Theater, Cleveland, OH Admiral Theatre, Bremerton, WA The Kent Stage, Kent, OH Columbia Theatre, Longview, WA The Southern Theatre, Columbus, OH Stevens Center, Winston Salem, NC Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Carolina Theatre of Durham, NC Lowell Theatre, Knoxville, TN Diana Wortham Theatre, Ashville, NC The Blue Bird Cafe, Nashville, TN Carborro Arts Center, Carrboro, NC The Portsmouth Music Hall, Portsmouth, NH Neighborhood Theater, Charlotte, NC Capitol Center Perform. Arts, Concord, NH Pershing Center, Lincoln, NE Newport Opera House, Newport, NH Cain Park, Cleveland, OH Aladdin Theatre, Portland, OR Congregation Beth Tikvah, Columbus, OH The Sophia Center, Sacramento, CA Jewish Fed of Lee & Charlotte Counties, Ft Myers, FL Levoy Theatre, Millville, NJ Jewish Federation of Collier County, FL Mandell JCC of Greater Palm Beaches, FL Jewish Federation of Toledo, OH JCC of Columbus, OH B’Nai Israel, Rockville, MD James Thurber House, Columbus, OH Jewish Federation of Dayton, OH Flemington JCC, Flemington, NJ
CD Review Samples
“A wrenchingly vivid knack for contemporary ballads.” THE BOSTON GLOBE
“Informed by both folk and pop sensibilities, My Good Company is brimming with good songs well sung. Remarkably consistent is the quality of the songwriting, an unwavering level of craft...” THE WASHINGTON POST
“Sally Fingerett gives ample proof why she won the KERRVILLE award for songwriting...one of the best lyricists on the singer/songwriter circuit.” THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Enclosed is a fine debut album. Take a risk. She’s worth it.” PLAYBOY
“Thank you dear heart, your songs are beautiful. As for (the song) The Redman, I have received many awards in my life time, but I cannot remember anything that has ever touched my emotions with such heartfelt warmth.” RED SKELTON
“Graceful, witting, elegant, charming. All the things you want in a lunch companion, Sally has managed to capture on this (My Good Company) CD!” JANIS IAN
“What is Sally Fingerett about? Intelligent, lyrical songs, nimble fingered guitar and piano stylings and a lilting voice that skips down the path of lovely melodies. Fingerett is surely one artist we’ll be hearing more about in coming years.” PERFORMING SONGWRITER MAG. “Sally Fingerett knows how to touch people. Her voice moves from sweet whispers to deliberate passion. Her thoughtful enriching ballads place her among today’s most important singers” DIRTY LINEN MAGAZINE UK
Sally's Biography for media www.sallyfingere .com Sally Fingerett is a contemporary, award-winning songwriter and performer and a founding member of the musical comedy group, The Four Bitchin’ Babes. She has released 6 solo CDs, 9 Bitchin’ Babe cast recordings, written music for the theatre, television and film, and contributed songs to 15 various philanthropic fundraising compilation recordings.
She taken her talents to more than 800 stages around the country.
As a 1990 Kerrville New Folk Award Winner for songwriting, Sally’s composition “Home Is Where the Heart Is” has been recorded by folk legends, Peter, Paul, and Mary for their 1995 Life Lines CD/PBS special, and published in “Contemporary Cabaret,” a songbook that includes Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Weber. She has appeared in Putamayo’s Songwriter Festival at NY’s Carnegie Hall, and was a featured musical guest on Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know, NPR’s Mountain Stage, and CBS Sunday Morning.
Singing for radio and TV, Sally has been the voice for Butterfinger, Hallmark, Sears, and A Star for Jeremy NBC. As an actress, she’s performed with the National Touring Company of the Vagina Monologues.
Recording as a solo singer/songwriter, Sally has released six CDs, Enclosed (1982), Unraveled (1990), Ghost Town Girl (1993), My Good Company (1998), and A Woman’s Gotta Do Her Thing (2004), and now releases her BRAND NEW anthology “best of” double disc CD The Mental Yentl, Songs from a Lifelong Student of Crazy. Besides the stellar Nashville musicians, these projects include duets Sally performed with good friends Janis Ian (Little Girl Please Wait) and Jonathan Edwards (Ten Pound Bass), as well as the song co- written with folk-hero Tom Paxton (Private Plenty).
After sending her song “The Red Man” to her childhood hero, Red Skelton, he wrote: “Thank you dear heart, your songs are beautiful. As for (the song) The Redman, I have received many awards in my life time, but I cannot remember anything that has ever touched my emotions with such heartfelt warmth.” Red Skelton
As a founding member of the musical theatre company THE FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES, Sally appears on their nine cast recordings, full length concert DVD, and tours the US with four different musical revues. “Hormonal Imbalance,” “Diva Nation,” “Mid Life Vices,” and their latest holiday show “Jingle Babes.” In addition to this hectic work schedule, Sally has been proud to contribute music to compilation recording projects of friends, radio stations and philanthropic organizations.
Amidst all this, in 1994, Sally’s career took a temporary detour when she suffered viral induced paralyzed vocal cords. For the one year that followed, she discovered new ways to create words and music for new mediums. She began composing for original stage works, and writing short stories and essays for print publications. Twelve harrowing months later, her voice returned. After completing vocal rehab at the famed Vanderbilt Voice Clinic, Sally jumped right back into the creative fray. She was commissioned to compose for Hersteria, A Musical Noir for the Winnipeg Studio Theatre. Her prose has been published in Random House’s Life’s a Stitch (with Molly Ivins, Erma Bombeck and Gloria Steinem) and Publishing Syndicates’ Not Your Mother’s Book – On Home Improvement (with Chicken Soup for the Soul writers).
Realizing her authentic self as a performer who is Jewish, Sally’s one-woman show The Mental Yentl Revue, debuted at “Oy!Hoo,” The New York Jewish and Music Heritage Festival. She then produced the Mental Yentl Radio Hour, for XM/Sirius’ Radio Hanukah. She has just released her long awaited book The Mental Yentl, Stories from a Lifelong Student of Crazy. This loving and humorous collection of personal narratives is available at www.sallyfingerett.com, Amazon, Barnes and Noble. Sally proudly tours Jewish institutions as Jewish Book Council Network Author and in her One Woman Musical Revue, “The Mental Yentl, Songs and Stories from a Lifelong Student of Crazy”
Sally and husband Michael live in Columbus, Ohio, where they have successfully launched their three kids, Elizabeth, Max and Aaron
Sally's Biography for playbills www.sallyfingere .com
Playing, piano, guitar, and bass, Sally is one of the founding “Mothers” of The Four Bitchin’ Babes, releasing 6 solo CDs, and has participated in all 9 Bitchin’ Babes CDs and over 20 compilation recordings! Sally’s song of compassion and equal rights, “Home Is Where The Heart Is” has been recorded by Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, and folk legends, Peter, Paul, and Mary for their CD and PBS special “Lifelines,” and can be found in “Contemporary Cabaret” a song book celebrating composers Stephen Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, and Andrew Lloyd Weber. Wearing many “showbiz hats,” Sally has sung Radio/TV Jingles for Butterfinger, Hallmark, and Sears, performed with the National Touring Company of the Vagina Monologues, showcased in Putamayo’s Songwriter Festival at NY’s Carnegie Hall, was the musical guest on Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know, NPR’s Mountain Stage, CNN’s Sonya Live, PBS Lifelines, and CBS Sunday Morning. Her comical essays and poetry have been published in Random House’s Life’s A Stitch, a collection of contemporary women’s humor with Erma Bombeck, Gloria Steinem, Joan Rivers and more. With her heart in musical theatre, Sally was commissioned to compose 12 songs for “Hersteria..A Musical Noir” (book by Sharon Bajer) for the Winnipeg Studio Theatre. She has recorded duets with Janis Ian, Jonathan Edwards as well as co-writing songs with Tom Paxton. Her latest solo project is her newly published collection of short stories and essays in memoir form titled, “The Mental Yentl, STORIES from a Lifelong Student of Crazy.” which is accompanied by a double disc CD, “The Mental Yentl, SONGS from a Lifelong Student of Crazy.” Sally and husband Michael live in Columbus, Ohio having launched 3 kids; Elizabeth, Max and Aaron, scattered throughout the US.