Anne Marie Menta plays Best Video Film & Cultural Center on Sat., Apr. 29, starting at 7 PM. She will be joined by Richard Neal on guitar and mandolin, and Cadence Carroll on harmony vocals and percussion. The cover is $10. Anne Marie Menta hails from New Haven, CT., where she has been a long-time favorite singer/songwriter. She comes from a family of three brothers, where playing and listening to music was their great passion. Her musical credits include fronting various rock & roll, folk, and country bands as a singer/guitarist, including The Wanderers, Sugar Moon, Sky Riders, and Rodeo Radio.
In the mid 90s, she decided to concentrate on her own original music, and those tunes of hers that she “snuck” into her cover band repertoire now became her main focus. But, the country, folk, and pop music that she loved continued to be an influence in her writing. Her most recent CD, “Sky Tonight,” came out in the fall of 2019.
Richard Neal is a student of music, songwriting, record production, and live performance. A multi-instrumentalist (guitar, 5-string banjo, mandolin, dobro, slide), he has been privileged to make a living as a musician and to work in a wide variety of musical settings and styles.
Today, during the school year, Cadence Carroll can be found blissfully teaching art to kids in grades 3-5 but on the weekends, the beat goes on as she performs her own music and provides support as a backup percussionist and vocalist.