Singer-songwriter, music healer Sandi Kimmel is a modern day minstrel who uses her guitar and her voice to create positive music that uplifts and inspires, and serves as a touchstone in changing times.

A songwriter and guitarist since childhood, Sandi developed her own unique sound that combines influences in pop, gospel, musical theater, jazz and folk, and honed her craft at the Songwriters Guild, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the prestigious BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Sandi writes songs people sing, and her positive uplifting messages are coupled with infectious melodies. Her first two CDs (Transitions, and Music In My Soul), are quickly becoming the songs of the emerging spiritual movement.

“People tell me these songs help them define what they believe in," says Sandi. “They come from the truth of my journey and what I’ve come to believe about the nature of the Universe and the power of love. These songs open the heart and touch a deep place of knowing inside.”

Sandi’s first CD, Transitions, is based on the healing power of positive music, and was intended to help the world heal, a song at a time, through all of life’s transitions - the loss of a loved one, the birth of a child, the triumphs and challenges of the human experience.

Transitions has sold thousands of copies around the world since its release in 2000, and is recognized and valued in many healthcare settings for its healing properties.

A natural “uplifter,” Sandi is an inspirational speaker who brings her positive non-denominational keynote programs to audiences of all ages in concert halls, churches, synagogues and other spiritual centers, hospitals, conferences, recovery centers, schools, spas and retreat centers, nursing homes and senior residences. She also shares her music and her heart as a hospice volunteer, to support patients at the end of their lives.

Sandi left her corporate career as a public relations executive with Fortune 500 companies including Texaco and Prodigy in 1993, determined to live an authentic life, wherever that would lead her. She has written about her journey of self-discovery, which has included being both a student and teacher of meditation and yoga, in numerous articles that appeared in national publications including Family Circle Magazine. She is dedicated to making positive change in the world.

Tami Briggs, therapeutic harpist, is the founding principal of Musical Reflections, a company which provides therapeutic-music to facilitate healing, transformational growth, and well-being for those experiencing life transitions.

To date, Tami has recorded 11 CDs, four of which are featured on this site.

As a certified harp practitioner, she has played at the bedside of hundreds of hospital and hospice patients. Tami uses her musical experience and her clinical training to address the immediate needs of the patient, the patient’s loved ones, and the professional staff. She recently completed a scientific research study measuring the benefits of live harp music on oncology patients.

Tami is a dynamic facilitator and keynote speaker who has presented breakout workshops at numerous health care conferences. She offers ideas on how the harp and therapeutic music can change the medical environment, especially how we experience illness and death. In her experiential presentations, she weaves together practical tips, powerful stories and musical examples, demonstrating music’s role in the healing process. As she works with health care professionals educating and encouraging them to use music as a healing modality, she watches her personal vision of a “boom box by every hospital, hospice, and nursing home bed by 2010” become a reality.

Guitarist John Guth has toured and/or recorded with many famous singers including Judy Collins, Bob Gibson, Tom Paxton, Mimi Farina, and Suzanne Vega. His versatility has been displayed in extensive traveling and recording with cabaret artist Peter Allen (It’s Time for Peter Allen)and with the jazz/New Age group, the Paul Winter Consort (Common Ground) with whom he wrote lyrics for two songs on the CD Common Ground. And, he was the onstage guitarist for the entire run of Big River on Broadway (music by Roger Miller).

He is also a singer and songwriter himself and has appeared in solo concerts, clubs and coffeehouses. His electric and acoustic guitar work can be heard on many commercials and recordings.

John's current activities revolve around his recording studio in Valley Cottage, NY. There, he has created numerous audio scores for children's cassettes and videos for Random House, McGraw-Hill, Listening Library, American School Publishers, and other companies. Tuesday and The Maestro Plays were ALA Notable children’s videos with John’s original music praised highly. Three of his productions of Jack Prelutsky’s musical renditions of his children’s poetry-Something Big Has Been Here, The Dragons Are Singing Tonight and Monday’s Troll, have won ALA notable awards, and the latest, A Pizza the Size of the Sun was released by Random House in 1999. His music is on the Grammy winning audio book production of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as well as the other Harry Potter audio books.

He is also recording the Hudson River Sloop Singers album featuring Pete Seeger, and songs by John Forster for Olsen Twins videos, as well as Forster’s current solo album, Helium on Rounder Records. John also works regularly with Galt MacDermot (composer of Hair) engineering his CDs, Thomas Hardy Songs, Portrait of Purdie (with Bernard Purdie) Joan of Arc and many others. He mixed Buster Poindexter’s new CD, Buster’s Spanish Rocketship on Island Records and Rudess/Morgenstein Project on Domo Records, Jordan Rudess’ solo CD Feed the Wheel for Magna Carta, and a soon to be released CD by Michael Wolff.

Three albums by Red Grammer: Red Grammer’s Favorite Singalong Songs, Free Fallin’, and Hello World and Soul Man in a Techno World were all engineered and co-produced by John, in addition to featuring his guitar playing. He has also recorded audio versions of 16 of Marc Brown’s Arthur series books for Little, Brown & Co. and did additional recording for Tom Chapin’s last four CDs. And of course, John played on, co-produced and recorded Sandi Kimmel's first two CDs, Transitions, and Music In My Soul!

Beddy Sinkoff, brings her musical expertise to both of Sandi's CDs. As a vocalist, Beddy has been compared to Carly Simon, and as a songwriter, she combines her classical training with her love of rock and roll.

Raised on The Beatles, she began playing the piano around the same time she started reading and writing, so it seemed natural that she became a songwriter. Beddy writes in all styles, although rock and roll will always be her first love. Her song, Santa Samba, was published by Christmas and Holiday Music Publishing. Beddy was the recipient of Best Unsigned Artist at the New York Music Awards, and Best Song at the NYU First Annual Songwriting Awards.

One of her favorite music projects is Beddy-Bye Music, a business she began in 1995 writing personalized children’s songs. Each child receives a recorded song written just for him or her with the names of their friends, family, pets, favorite games, whatever!, included in the lyrics. Because of the wonderrful feedback from parents, children, and grandparents, she is expanding her studio to the newest digital format, which will enable her to produce more intricate customizations.

Lisa Lipkin Werbin has been writing songs and singing them since age 17. Her Compositions and arrangements have been performed by New Hampshire chorus "Women Spirit Song", New York based quartet  "With Spirit Sing!" and "The Voices of Light" choir with Swedish Soprano Dominique Hellsten.  

Lisa has recorded and arranged for many well known artists including Sandi Kimmel, Christine Pepe, and Dominique  Hellsten with The Voices of Light." Last year, her composition won first prize in New York State's "IMA GREEN NATION" Contest for environmental awareness.  

Lisa has just released her first solo CD entitled  "Raise the Honey".

WITH SPIRIT SING! Celebrating Life in Four-Part Harmony
With Spirit Sing! features the singing talents of Laurie Brown, Lisa Lipkin, Christine Pepe, and Rachel Seliber. With light hearts and blended voices they bring original acapella music into theatres, coffee houses, synagogues, churches, and senior residences throughout New York and beyond. Engaging audiences with a show that has been described as "uplifiting"," inspiring", and "transformational", they artfully range from lush four-part harmonies to sing-alongs, rounds, and interactive audience participation. Included in their repertoire are compositions by founder/director Lisa Lipkin, member Christine Pepe, and singer-songwriter Sandi Kimmel. With Spirit Sing! can be heard on Sandi Kimmel's newest cd, Music In My Soul, and are soon to begin recording their own cd release due out in 2004.

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