New Mown Hay, featuring Georgia Rose and Suzannah

© by Bill Burnett

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I've always felt that siblings who sing together have an amazing, other-worldly quality, as if their very DNA is somehow harmonizing.  Take the Everly Brothers, the Boswell Sisters, the Roches, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle (who are featured this week in the SongTalk section.)  

Georgia Rose and Suzannah Armstrong Park have that sibling thing. (Note, when I get a link for Rosie I'll share it with y'all.) When these young women open their mouths and sing together, wherever they are lifts off and is transported.  They come from a long lineage of world class folk performers (their mom is the multi-talented instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and storyteller  Jennifer Armstrong, their father the irrepressible Fred Park, and their grandparents the legendary George and Gerry Armstrong.

Rosie and Zannie have been singing as a team and separately since they were tiny. When they were 16 and 15 years old, repectively,  I had the idea of writing some songs specifically for them and recording a little EP. So we did it in my home studio in the Hollywood Hills.  This first song "New Mown Hay" was meant to kind of swing off on the type of folk tunes they'd been doing all their lives.  You can feel the fun in the air on the tracks. (Or at least I can.)  I wish I had video to show you, but the still photos are pretty mesmerizing on their own.  Please, enjoy...

(PS...Suzannah is currently on tour in the Northwest with her significant other Nathan.  You can find out where they are and when they'll be in a town near you by clicking on here.)