the scoldees

“Take four best friends, give them voices capable of bloodline-like four-part harmonies, the talent to write catchy hooks and melodies, and the will to take their music to the public on their own terms (adding a rather bent view of life and a propensity to laughter), and the result will be a band like The Scoldees "
Paul Andersen, Entertainment Today, LA

Ingredients: Nancy Sirianni (lead vocal/guitar), Jack Hoffmann (lead vocal/guitar), John Collis (percussion/vocals) and Ted Rydzewski (bass/vocals). Producer John Michel often joins the band on drums and percussion. Their debut album, My Pathetic Life, received terrific reviews both in the press and on the web, accumulated over 15,000 downloads on various music websites, and six cuts from the CD received airplay across the country on Top 40, AAA and Adult Contemorary radio. Nightcap World is their latest CD, and it is currently getting airplay on over 270 stations nationwide, with "adds" in more than 225 radio markets. Their sound has been described as an organic fusion of rich harmonies, chunky guitars, fluid bass, with old (and some new) world percussion; an eclectic acoustic style that has been called everything from progressive to pop.

" The Scoldees " credits include THE MOUNTAIN STAGE NEWSONG FESTIVAL 2003, THE KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL 2002 & 2003, BETHLEHEM MUSIKFEST 2000 & 2001, WOODSTOCK ‘99 (The Emerging Artist Stage), Reunion concerts in 1999 & 2000 at Yasgur‘s Farm, Bethel, NY, THE WHISKY A-GO-GO, Hollywood, CA, THE BOTTOM LINE, NYC, opening spots in front of Nancy Wilson, John Sebastian, and Dan Hicks. The scoldees were once booked to open for Missing Persons, but Missing Persons didn't show. How funny is that. They also had a well received, albeit politically incorrect (Gary The Retard's Birthday Parody), performance on The Howard Stern Show on syndicated radio and on national television.