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Bio:: Rachel Elise Sanders grew up on folky singer/songwriters with her hippie parents in Portland, Oregon. After a stellar musical debut on the summer camp music scene in her early teenage years where she wowed every 10 year old in earshot, she went on to earn a BA in music from Bard College in New York. At Bard she studied jazz and electronic music, and had the opportunity to work with some of the most excellent jazz musicians in the New York area. During her school years she studied and traveled abroad in Central America, becoming fluent in Spanish and being influenced by the rich musical traditions of Latin America. Depending on how you’re counting, ‘Water: a Travelogue’ could be considered her second album (unless you want to count the two she made in middle school and high school, but we’ll save that for the die hard fans who can forgive adolescent musical immaturity). Her first album, ‘Tell Me Your Story’ came out in 2006. Rachel has played with or opened for some of today’s top folk musicians including: Tracy Grammer, Anais Mitchell, Billy Jonas, Raina Rose, Al Pettaway and Amy White, Erik Peterson and Fruit.