ost versions of “Your Trip around the Sun” featured on this website are performed by The Local Girls vocal trio from Athens, Ohio.
In three-part harmony, The Local Girls repertoire covers 100 years of popular music in one evening. They have worked with David Bromberg, The Platters, and entertained troops gathered around Air Force One and performed in Austria. The Local Girls were also invited to performed live on “A Prairie Home Companion” and performed annually for several years at The Greenbrier Resort Hotel in West Virginia.
ccompanied by the Ohio University String Quartet (who stepped in to substitute for The Lark Quartet who were performing in Europe,) the vocal trio performed the New Birthday Song for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 50th Birthday celebration in Washington. The next year they were invited to perform at the White House.
The trio has been funded by the Ohio Arts Council. In addition to fund-raising for AIDS, the arts, and various women’s shelters and groups, The Local Girls have helped publicize and support the Women of the West Museum in Boulder, Colorado.
The Local Girls on Tour in Austria
Mimi Hart, Brenda Catania, and Gay Dalzell
Gay Dalzell, accompanied on guitar
by her husband, Bruce Dalzell,
performs the solo ballad versions of the birthday song.
The Local Girls
Guitarist Mike McGannon,
Gay Dalzell, Brenda Catania and Mimi Hart
with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Athens, Ohio.
he Lark Quartet has performed at Lincoln Center, The National Gallery, Kennedy Center, and St. Paul’s Ordway Theater. Tours abroad have taken the Quartet to China, Australia, Russia, Mexico, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and Great Britain.
The Lark Quartet
Astrid Schween (cello), Danielle Farine (viola),
Jennifer Orchard (violin) and Diane Pascal (violin)
At the time of the recording of the song, the Lark Quartet was in residence at Ohio University and the string quartet consisted of Diane Pascal, violin; Jennifer Orchard, violin; Anna Kruger, viola; Astrid Schween, cello.
Since the recording, one by one, each of the members have been replaced. Finally, after 20 years, Astrid Schween, the only remaining founding member of The Lark Quartet, retired from the group in 2009.
The Lark Quartet
Astrid Schween, Diane Pascal,
Jennifer Orchard, and Danielle Farine with
Hillary Rodham Clinton in Athens, Ohio.
