The Christine Spero Group Headlines the 2006 Greater Hartford Festival
of Jazz July 15th

Christine Spero is the Winner of the 2004 USA Songwriting Competition
Jazz Category!
USA Today, Billboard, Jazz Times, Keyboard Magazine

"One of the most artistically pleasing, culturally enriching and
musically stimulating experiences" Hartwick College Review

"Leading the next wave of Latin-Jazz in the Hudson Valley region of
New York" Chronogram- July 2004

(Hartford, CT.) - The Christine Spero Group will join Ray Vega,
Bobby Mattos, Kim Waters , Walter Beasley and Steve Davis on July 15th
at The Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz www.Hartfordjazz.com .
Christine Spero, a Jazz singer-songwriter from East Jewett, NY won the
first prize in the Jazz category of the 2004 USA Songwriting
Competition with her song, "He Wasn't Always That Way" . This is the
world's leading international songwriting event. It was released on a
compilation CD of all the winning songs in 2005. Her song "Caribbean
Nights" was a finalist in the 2002 competition. Her debut CD, "We Call
It Music" has been featured on XM Radio and numerous stations
worldwide. To order "We Call It Music", please go to
www.christinesperogroup.com and
www.sonicbids.com/thechristinesperogroup .

Her piece, "Therapy " has been published by Wild Whirled Music, a
leading provider of music for film and television whose clients
include; Paramount, Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and SONY and has
been released on a compilation CD of Jazz throughout the 20th century.
Look for the release of Christine's new CD late this summer.

The Christine Spero group is based in New York and is: Christine
Spero/ piano,vocals; Elliot Spero/ saxophones,percussion;Mike
Woinoski/ bass and Jody Sumber/ drums.They perform the
singer/pianist's vibrant, multifaceted vocal and instrumental material
that fuses the styles and rhythms of Brazilian/Latin with pop and
jazz. It is energetic, soulful and spicy! Having a rich variety of
influences, Christine is a pianist, singer and first rate songwriter
whose work is passionate, unique and diverse.The real essence of
Christine is best experienced in her live performances. Her
well-crafted songs are mature and complex and leave a lot of room for
other musicians to express themselves. The group has been featured on
Time Warner Cable's, "Poughkeepsie LIVE!" Check out their website
at: www.christinesperogroup.com and look for a feature article in
Recording Magazine soon.

Christine is the granddaughter of a well known classical pianist and
comes from a musical family. She was in the church choir and also
accompanist and soloist on piano and organ. After recording her first
songs on RCA as a teen, Christine moved to the West Coast to attend
college for music and botany. She worked with many jazz and classical
musicians who influenced her eclectic and personal style of composing.
Back in her native New York, she founded a six-piece group, including
saxophone and trumpet which toured the East Coast. Christine settled
in the Catskills to raise her three children while continuing to play,
sing and record. She has been musical director and player in many
drama productions in her community and the Tri-State Area.

Comparing Christine Spero's achievement to "American Idol" would
denigrate what the East Jewett singer-songwriter has done. While "Idol"
dilutes and sanitizes pop music, Spero heightens it. Congratulations to
Christine Spero. She quietly brought honor to Greene County and proves
music that flies under the radar can have its own integrity (The Daily

Mail/Hudson Valley Newspapers)

Saxophonist, percussionist, producer, Elliot Spero, originally from
Forest Hills, N.Y. founded his own ensembles in San Francisco and
worked with many well-known Bay Area musicians after attending S.F.
State College for music. A multi-instrumentalist, he also plays
keyboards, flutes and an Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI). He
engineered and produced "We Call It Music" and owns a recording studio
in New York.

Other members of the rhythm section include: drummer Curtis Watts,
who played with such luminaries as Pharaoh Sanders, Sonny Fortune,
Jaco Pastorius, Roy Ayers and guitarist, Vernon Reid. Percussionist,
Brian Albano worked with the Gil Evans trio and Andy Bey. Also,
bassist Steve Rust who has toured with Hubert Laws, Paul Simon and
recorded with James Galway and drummer, Harvey Sorgen of Hot Tuna also
has worked with Paul Simon, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Frisell and Roswell
Rudd.

Winning songs of the 2004 USA Songwriting Competition receive airplay
on a nationally syndicated radio program "Acoustic Café" as well as XM
Satellite Radio. Many USA Songwriting Competition winners in the past
have received recording and publishing contracts, as well as having
their songs placed on film and television. Judges include record
labels such as Warner and SONY Music.

The USA Songwriting Competition is sponsored by Sony, Rolling Stone
magazine, New Music Weekly, Steinberg, Audio-Technica, Ibanez Guitars,
D'Addario Strings, Sam Ash Music Stores, East WestSounds,
MixDownMedia.com, Indie Bible, AcousticCafe, Loggins Promotion,
Singer magazine, ElectronicMusician magazine, Sonicbids.com and XM
Radio. For more information, visit the website at:
http://www.songwriting.net

The group will be performing June 24th at the Olana Aglow Summer
Fundraiser www.olanasummer.org and at The 10th Annual Hudson Valley
Summer Music Festival www.hcc-arts.org on July 8th In New Paltz N.Y
7-9 PM. They are regulars at Ashford and Simpson's Sugar Bar in N.Y.C
www.sugarbarnyc.com . and will play there July 18th 8PM. The group has
played at SOB's,The Cutting Room, The Knitting Factory and Nell's in
Manhattan. Christine has been written about in USA Today, Jazz Times,
Billboard and Keyboard magazines and a soon to be released profile in
Recording Magazine. They have opened for such notables as: pop icon,
Melanie, T.K Blue and Andrea Brachfield. Catch them at The New Britain
Museum of American Art in their First Friday Series www.nbmaa.org on
August 4th (5:30-8:30) and The Upper Room with Joe Kelley Monday,
July,10th at 4PM-8PM (WVOF-88.5 FM in Fairfield CT www.wvof.org and
www.upperroomwithjoekelley.com) . They will be touring in the
Tahoe/Reno/S.F.area this summer promoting the 2007 Bike ride, Alaska
To Argentina 16,000 miles....for www.bikingforabetterworld.org to
build a school in Nicaragua.