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
internet jokes.
The dozen or so nonprofessional singers and punsters of The Art Mob have been entertaining friends, family and first offenders for nearly twenty years with outdated and unfashionable songs from a variety of ever-to-be-forgotten sources.
The group includes (in addition to several artists, poor souls) people who work in such peculiar fields as acting, writing, city government, teaching, editing, medicine, law, research, web technologies, and construction.
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.
Members:
Connie Beckley, Acting Music Director
Soprano: Connie
Beckley, Barbara Niblock, Nancy Moore Simpson
and Kirsten Skrinde
Alto: Gaynor Coté, Martha Giardina, and Betty Harris
Tenor: Frank Donno and Mark Wolff
Bass: Aldo Ceresa, Dean Rainey, Dean Jens, and Barry Talesnick
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