About The Art Mob
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Founded in 1979 in NYC and named after a song by
artist/songwriter Terry
Allen called "The Art Mob's Out Tonight," this group
of lovelorn, hapless singers banded together to complain about their
cruel treatment at the hands of unappreciative and inappropriate
partners while simultaneously singing, eating chocolate and telling
dirty jokes.
The dozen or so nonprofessional singers and punsters of The Art
Mob have been entertaining friends, family and first offenders for
many years with outdated and unfashionable songs from a variety
of ever-to-be-forgotten sources.
The group includes (in addition to a few artists, poor souls) people
who work in such peculiar fields as acting, writing, city government,
teaching, editing, medicine, law, and research.
Bravely singing in the a cappella style, The Art Mob pounces
on obscure songs found in musty old hymnals and tattered choral
books, boldly giving listeners a taste of what life may have been
like back then, when group singing was a popular form of entertainment
enjoyed by a wide spectrum of the living, including ax murderers
and oil barons. Go figure.
The Art Mob is:
Brent Frederick (music director),
Connie Beckley, Hannah Campbell, Aldo Ceresa (on leave), Gaynor Coté, Martin Donach, Frank Donno, Jamey Grisham, Ruby McNeil, Cheryl Morrison, Dean Rainey, Dan Rosenbaum,
Nancy Moore Simpson, Jared Stamm, Kirsten Skrinde,
Confidence Stimpson, and Vicki Watson.
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