THE SECRET SAUCE
With Janet Feld, Esther Friedman & Jackie Damsky
MEET THE BAND
Janet Feld, Esther Friedman and Jackie Damsky have joined forces as The Secret Sauce, performing tasty originals and choice covers, with lots of sweet 3-part harmony, plus guitar, mando and violin.
The band evolved from time spent playing music together. Performing with people whose music you love, and are a blast to hang out with is how they roll.
Janet Feld is an award-winning performing songwriter, appearing at folk festivals and coffeehouses from coast to coast throughout a nearly four-decade career. She's been teaching general music classes and private lessons to people of all ages since the 1980s. Since 2000, she's been teaching guitar and songwriting at The Passim School of Music and is the founder and Chief Music Officer at Janet’s Planet: Music Lessons for Humanoids, Inc. She has recorded 5 CDs and published her first book in 2023 for music teachers, Practicing Safe Music - Create an emotionally and magical experience for your music students, while rocking your self care.
Esther Friedman is a Boston-based acoustic singer & songwriter. She started writing songs in the mid-nineties after moving to the area from Cleveland, for Lesley University’s Expressive Art Therapy, Master’s Degree program. Inspired by buskers who braved street corners and t-stops she started writing and performing. Today, she provides therapy in a private practice, counseling those in recovery from trauma, while performing and song writing as much as humanly possible.
Jackie Damsky was originally trained as a classical violinist, and has developed a unique improvisational style over a range of genres including jazz, folk, blues, acoustic rock, and popular music. From halls and clubs to the recording studio, Jackie’s warm and sweet, passionate and evocative violin playing leaves listeners profoundly affected and deeply moved. Jackie weaves a harmonic tapestry with her fellow musicians, adding depth, color, richness… and a little magic.
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RECENT EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
11 JUNE 2024
7:00-10:00 PM EST
LOMA
(Lincoln Open Mic Acoustic)
Lincoln Library's Tarbell Room
3 Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA
(near 5-corner intersection with Trapelo Rd)
The Secret Sauce features
(approx 8:30 pm)
Admission is FREE.
15 JUNE 2024
8:00 PM EST
Songwriter Showcase to Benefit
One Broadway Collaborative
468 Essex Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
With: Chris Lavancher, The Secret Sauce
(with Janet Feld, Esther Friedman
& Jackie Damsky), Mark Stepakoff, The Lied To's
(with Doug Kwartler & Susan Levine), Erin Ash Sullivan, Rob Laurens, Tom Smith
RSVP to (978) 258-2009
director@onebroadway.org
18 AUGUST 2024
1:00-4:00 PM EST
Sugar Hill Folk Festival
Sugar Hill Assisted Living
45 Main Street, Dalton, Mass
27 OCTOBER 2024
1:00 PM Potluck | 2:00 PM Music
Lakeview Houseconcerts,
Sharon, MA
With the Secret Sauce
RSVP to info@lakeviewhouseconcerts.org.
01 DECEMBER 2024
7:00 PM
CLUB PASSIM
47 Palmer Street
Cambridge, MA
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