We waited for this show for years! When we asked other House Concert hosts around the country "which musicians put on your favorite House Concert?", the name of GrooveLily kept popping up in many Top 5 lists. Everybody on the east coast has been raving about them... but they don't make it to California very often, so we waited patiently for our turn. When we finally had a chance to see them, we were able to confirm what we've been hearing. GrooveLily Duo are a couple of exceptionally talented musicians who create their own original music with passion, charm, and intelligence. They also put on one of the best House Concerts we've ever hosted!

GrooveLily's music addresses both brain and body with clever lyrics and music you can move to. Heady fun.
-- MT, Sing Out! Magazine

GROOVELILLY inhabits that contemporary space where creative musicians ignore the boundaries laid down by words like rock, folk, jazz, and pop. Intelligent original songs with no shortage of wit connect lush musical textures with the vocals and blazing electric violin of founding member Valerie Vigoda. With backgrounds in classical music, musical theater, jazz, and rock, the members of GrooveLily are making a new music that's all their own.

Why GrooveLily was still without a label deal when they recorded this excellent album in 2003 is anyone's guess; their '90s and early 2000s releases are among the best in the adult alternative field.
-- Alex Henderson, All Music Guide

VALERIE VIGODA, electric violinist and singer, is the founding member of GrooveLily. Originally from McLean, VA, Valerie is a classically-trained musician and an honors graduate of Princeton University. She has toured the world with Cyndi Lauper (opening for Tina Turner and Cher), Joe Jackson and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. A former Army lieutenant, Valerie stars with her bandmates in print and on TV in the ongoing "Perseverance" ads for "Today's Military." She founded GrooveLily (originally "The Valerie Vigoda Band") in 1994, with a critically acclaimed CD called "Inhabit My Heart." Dirty Linen Magazine wrote: "to call Valerie Vigoda talented barely seems to do her justice. She has a great voice, is an intelligent lyricist... and an ace violinist. Methinks we'll hear more of her."

Spritely and sweet-natured, richly tuneful, lyrically playful and comforting. That's the like-no-other, adult-rock trio Groovelily in a nutshell, on the charming indie release "Are We There Yet?"
-- Jonathan Takiff, The Philadelphia Daily News

BRENDAN MILBURN plays keyboards and sings. Before joining GrooveLily, he graduated from Pomona College and NYU's MFA program in Musical Theatre Writing. He does a lot of arranging for GrooveLily, and he's an accomplished record producer as well. He often yearns for his native San Francisco. Music critic Seth Rogovoy writes: "...Milburn is a deft pianist, his nimble fingerwork doing double-duty as the band's bassist and provider of its harmonic foundation, delivered with the jazzy sophistication of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and the rock and roll theatrics of Billy Joel."

Look, up on the stage. It's a jazz band. It's a power pop trio. It's a performance art ensemble. No, it's Groovelily, which is all those things and a whole lot more.
-- Michael Miller, The State (Columbia, SC)

Be sure to visit GrooveLily's website at: www.groovelily.com