Maria Sangiolo is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist with eight solo albums to her credit. Her most recent CD, Maria and Friends – Planting Seeds was chosen for the 2011 Parents Choice Gold Award on the Raging River Records label. She’s been singing since she heard the angel of music riding in the backseat of her parent’s Chevy wagon. Sangiolo has a grass roots following both nationally and regionally in her home of New England. Her music show-cases her range of writing styles from heartfelt, melancholic ballads to rich narratives in the traditional and contemporary folk form. Sangiolo has shared the stage with Steve Stills, Patty Larkin, Cheryl Wheeler, Chris Smither, John Gorka, Livingston Taylor, David Wilcox, Tracy Grammer, Lori McKenna and Mark Erelli, Jim Henry and Don White, to name a few. Her voice, described by The Boston Globe is 'angelic and pure...a born singer.' Her "stage presence is like a veteran," says Livingston Taylor. She delivers her songs "touching lyrics and understated melodies with depth, poise, and grace," noted the San Diego Union Tribune. In August of 2017, she was awarded the Edwin Way Teale Artist in Residency and spent a week at the Edwin Way Teale Memorial Sanctuary, a 157-acre estate managed by CT Audubon in Hampton, CT. This experience produced a collection of new songs which will be released digitally on her website in the fall of 2017.