Live Music By Phyllis and Friends:
     About Our Musicians

PHYLLIS LYNCH Talents: Piano, Keyboard-Synthesizer, Classical Guitar, Organ   Phyllis has been playing for weddings, receptions, and many other occasions and locations for many years. She is a former artist for the Indianapolis Baldwin outlet and plays most styles of music from Jazz, Classical, Oldies, Pop, Rock, Country, Blues, Contemporary, Christian, etc.   Phyllis has been a Church Music Director and Organist for many years.   Phyllis plays solo on Piano/Keyboard/Synthesizer; and Classical Guitar and Church Organ. She plays Duo with Violin or Trumpet or Bass-Guitar-Percussion. She plays in the Jazz Plus Duo. She plays in the Jazz Plus Trio and in Phyllis and Friends Live Band.   Listen to audio samples by Phyllis. She also has CD's available for purchase as well as downloads of single songs. Listen to samples from her CD's.

 

DON JOHNSTON Talents: Vocalist, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Percussion   Don has a really smooth tenor voice and like to sing and play Jazz, Oldies, Standards, and everything from the 1920's to current hits. He is a member of the Jazz Plus Duo and Jazz Plus Trio and Phyllis and Friends Live Band.

 

GARNET RIVERA Talents: Vocalist, Bass Guitar, Percussion   Vocals include songs of Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Nora Jones, Whitney Houston. Garnet is a member of Phyllis & Friends Jazz Plus Trio.

 

JAZZ PLUS DUO The Jazz Plus Duo plays a wide variety of music including Jazz, Standards, Oldies, Swing, Dance, Pop, Rock, Country, and Contemporary.   Listen to samples of the Jazz Plus Duo music.   View video sampler

 

JAZZ PLUS TRIO Talents: Bass, guitar, piano, keyboard, percussion, and vocals   The Jazz Plus Trio plays a wide variety of music including Jazz, Standards, Oldies, Swing, Dance, Pop, Rock, Country, and Comtemporary.   Listen to samples of the Jazz Plus Trio music.   View video sampler

 

STAR NELSON (LEFT), SARAH NELSON (RIGHT) Talents: Violin   Star plays in the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra. She is a former member of the Indianapolis New World Youth Symphony and participated in the Side by Side program with the Indianapolis Symphony. She also attended the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina.   Sarah Nelson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northern Illinois University. As a professional musician and teacher in the southern Indiana region since 1986, she has performed with the Bloomington Symphone, Bloomington Pops Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony and the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic.   Sarah is currently a member of the Danville Illinois Symphony, the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra and has enjoyed performing the orchestra and choral works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven at the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria each summer for the past three years. She is the founder and leader of the Aurora Alley Strings Quartet, friends of Phyllis.

 

THE NOTEABLES Talents: Dance Band   The Noteables is a 7-piece Dance Band comprised of: two saxes, trumpet, trombone, string bass, keyboard, and drums. This group keeps people on the dance floor by playing music of various styles from much of the 20th century, tho' specializing in the swing and jazz of the Big Bands of the 20's - 50's. Listen to audio samples of their music.

 

SABRINA FALLS Talent: Harp   Sabrina Falls has been playing her Celtic harp since 1985. She plays wedding ceremonies, receptions, dinners, coffee houses, memorials, church worship and other religious functions. She also plays live therapeutic music at the bedside in hospitals, hospice, or home for those who are sick and in transition from life to death. She is a Certified Music Practitioner.   Sabrina plays traditional Celtic music as well as a wide variety of spiritual, folk and popular music. Listen to audio samples by Sabrina.

 

ELIZABETH AHLGRIM Talent: Harp (Full size, Pedal, Orchestral)   Elizabeth has been playing harp for many years as a soloist as well as in a Duo with Flute and a Trio with Harp-Flute-Cello. She plays Classical as well as show & movies themes and contemporary music. She plays at any event that needs live music.   Listen to samples of Elizabeth's music.

 

KATHRYN SCHILLING Talent: Violinist   Kathryn Schilling received her MS in Violin from Butler University, where she studied with Larry Shapiro and Davis Brooks.  Since then she has enjoyed a full schedule of playing and teaching.  Kathryn serves as the concertmaster for the chamber orchestra Orkestra Projekt, as well as the Kokomo Symphony.  She plays in several other orchestras, and as well as providing live music for any occasion such as weddings, receptions, corporate functions, etc. for Phyllis and Friends Live Music.   She maintains a home teaching studio, and also works with students at Park Tudor School.