Open Book
Performances: 1:00 PM, Big Blue; 5:00 PM, Upstream Gallery
Original music featuring melody invention, vocal harmonies and interweaving guitars
Michele Gedney, vocals, guitar; Rick Gedney, vocals, guitar
Rick and Michele Gedney, known as the duo, Open Book, have been writing, recording, and performing together since 2000. Their original music features melody invention and vocal harmonies backed by a tapestry of interweaving guitars.
Open Book has released three albums which have received national airplay and critical acclaim. They are currently recording a fourth album.
In addition to performing concerts, writing and recording, Rick and Michele have been honored to work as part of the facilitating team at Dar Williams’ retreat called Writing a Song That Matters. The retreat, which occurs twice a year, just completed it’s sixth year at The Garrison Institute in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Open Book are the winners of the 2017 Connecticut Folk Festival ‘Grassy Hill Songwriting Competition’.
Chronogram Magazine, September 1, 2015 – By Robert Burke Warren
“In pop music, stealth and restraint often go unheralded, yet these qualities are every bit as important as flash and dazzle; subtlety, in the right hands, can pack as much punch as obviousness. Husband-and-wife duo Michele and Rick Gedney, aka Open Book, know all of this, and their third CD, Grateful, exemplifies the low-key power of haunting melody buttressed with expansive harmony, the satisfaction of adroit wordplay entwined with skillfully understated musicianship. Grateful will remind you.”
Performances (YouTube playlist)
First performance (1:00 PM, Big Blue)
Second performance (5:00 PM, Upstream Gallery)