Biography
Margo Hennebach pairs sensitive lyrics with melodic arrangements built around piano. Long active in New York’s folk and acoustic circles, she has drawn steady listeners both as a solo performer and through her role in the folk-pop trio Madwoman in the Attic since the early 1990s. She reached the finals of the New Folk contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 1991 and the Telluride Troubadour Songwriter Competition in 1998 while blending world, folk, pop, rock, and Celtic influences into a distinctive style.
Born in New York, Hennebach was adopted as an infant and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. After classical piano training, she captured numerous statewide contests in the Garden State during her youth. She refined her technique at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, completing a bachelor’s degree in music. She later studied at Guildhall of Music and Drama in London, England, where she concentrated on music therapy and obtained a master’s degree. Returning to New York, she has maintained her performing career while serving as a music therapist for children facing cancer diagnoses, experiences that have shaped many of her compositions.
By the late 1980s Hennebach joined the Fast Folk Musical Magazine and the Songwriters’ Cooperative. She provided accompaniment for John Gorka, Suzanne Vega, Cliff Eberhardt, Shawn Colvin, and Jack Hardy at Fast Folk events held at the Bottom Line in New York, and she toured or recorded with Richard Shindell, Rod MacDonald, and Paul Winter. Alongside Adrienne Jones and Diane Chodkowski she spent three years in Madwoman in the Attic, an ensemble the Hartford Advocate honored as Best Acoustic Act in both 1995 and 1996.
More recently Hennebach has appeared in a duo with her husband, Mark Saunders, who holds a degree from the Hartford Conservatory in classical guitar; the pair released Big Love in 1998.
Born in New York, Hennebach was adopted as an infant and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. After classical piano training, she captured numerous statewide contests in the Garden State during her youth. She refined her technique at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, completing a bachelor’s degree in music. She later studied at Guildhall of Music and Drama in London, England, where she concentrated on music therapy and obtained a master’s degree. Returning to New York, she has maintained her performing career while serving as a music therapist for children facing cancer diagnoses, experiences that have shaped many of her compositions.
By the late 1980s Hennebach joined the Fast Folk Musical Magazine and the Songwriters’ Cooperative. She provided accompaniment for John Gorka, Suzanne Vega, Cliff Eberhardt, Shawn Colvin, and Jack Hardy at Fast Folk events held at the Bottom Line in New York, and she toured or recorded with Richard Shindell, Rod MacDonald, and Paul Winter. Alongside Adrienne Jones and Diane Chodkowski she spent three years in Madwoman in the Attic, an ensemble the Hartford Advocate honored as Best Acoustic Act in both 1995 and 1996.
More recently Hennebach has appeared in a duo with her husband, Mark Saunders, who holds a degree from the Hartford Conservatory in classical guitar; the pair released Big Love in 1998.
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