Acoustic Night: Tom Mank & Sera Smolen (USA)

Tom Mank (guitar, vocal) and Sera Smolen (cello) with Kimberly Claeys (vocal) and Rich DePaolo (guitar, vocal).

Tom Mank and Sera Smolen have been performing and writing music together since 1994. Mank, a self-taught singer-songwriter, and Smolen, a conservatory trained cellist, blend their musical languages into an eclectic style. Guitar, voice, and cello have many ways of blending, with the cello as bass, and doubling with guitar or soloing. Mank’s eloquent writing of instrumentals is contrasted well with his poetic lyrics. In 2021, they finished a new album of original music – called “Like a Raindrop on a Feather” – recorded in Ithaca, NY. The album was officially released in February 2021 and was featured in a February European tour of the Netherlands and Germany (their 12th time!).

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