article_title name occupation nationality
sandy bashaw
 sandy bashaw musician american
sandy bashaw

sandy bashaw is a multi-instrumentalist composer .
bashaw started her professional musical career at the age of 18 , recording an album for vanguard records in new york city .
-lrb- the vanguard album , entitled `` third & main '' was re-released on cd in january 2007 by ace records in england .
a few years later she recorded for atlantic records in los angeles , ca , with executive producer don everly .
with acoustic guitar as her main instrument , she has developed a driving , percussive guitar technique as well as a distinctive finger style .
she has had the privilege of sharing the stage with artists such as : odetta , ramblin ' jack elliot , eric anderson , maria muldaur , john renbourn , tom paxton , dougie maclean , riders in the sky , solas , and peggy seeger & ewan maccoll .
during the late 1970s she played piano and sang with the legendary country-western/western swing band , the last mile ramblers in new mexico and colorado .
sandy is a published writer and bmi member , composing songs as well as instrumental music .
she also makes original , experimental , and improvisational music -lrb- which is performed with michael bashaw 's sound sculpture concert ensemble -rrb- playing guitar , giant kalimbas , monzithor , percussion , melodica and other exotic instruments .
with her husband/collaborator michael bashaw , she created and recorded an improvised musical work , china memory for michael lyons , former vice president of the royal society of british sculptors .
in spring , 1998 , the music was played as part of lyons ' twenty-year retrospective at the yorkshire sculpture park in wakefield , england .
bashaw hosted a reception for and created a performance with principal members of the sarajevo circle theater company at the first anniversary of the signing of the dayton peace accords in dayton , ohio , november 1996 .
held in bashaw 's studio loft and attended by international heads of state , diplomats , peace keeping groups and international press , this powerful , emotional performance moved many in the audience to tears .
then , in june 1999 , michael and sandy bashaw visited the city of sarajevo , bosnia i herzegovina with the sister cities delegation from dayton , ohio .
while in bosnia , they played for children in a clinic , and for local and national dignitaries at a reception given by u.s. ambassador kauzlarich .
in november 1999 , they performed with the sarajevo philharmonic during the dayton peace accords anniversary celebration in dayton .
they went back in the balkans , where they performed an original composition with the sarajevo philharmonic orchestra at the bosnian national theatre in oct. 2004 , as well as a concert in split , croatia .
in november , 2005 they once again helped celebrate , this time the 10th anniversary of the signing of the dayton peace accords , at the schuster center in dayton , ohio .
sandy is a native daytonian , with long-time family ties to dayton .
her great grandfather , and great-great grandfather -lrb- frank joyce and jacob joyce , respectively -rrb- were inventors who founded the joyce-cridland company -lrb- later , joyce-dayton -rrb- .
her grandfather , casten roepken was an early aviator who built his own airplanes in the mid-1920s .
sandy and michael recently released a soundtrack cd entitled `` music from the documentary dayton codebreakers . ''
