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Flutist Anne Barnhart’s musical experiences with Ivory&Gold® have taken her around the world. Her performances have been enjoyed from coast to coast in the US and abroad in places such as England, Scotland, Ireland, Russia, French Polynesia, South America, Canada, and France just to name a few. Audiences are dazzled by her technique, awed by her tone and enthralled with her timing when bantering with pianist Jeff Barnhart and drummer Danny Coots.
Anne is a magna cum laude graduate of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and holds both bachelor and masters degrees in music. As a result of extensive master-class experience performing for such world famous artists as Jeffrey Khaner and Goran Marcusson, Anne was invited to participate in the Acadmie International dete de Nice held in Nice, France. Anne is a member of the International Who’s Who in Music and Musicians in the Classical and Light-Classical Fields. Anne’s teachers include Vanita Hall-Jones, John Wion and Ransom Wilson.
Anne makes her home in Mystic, CT, where she and her husband Jeffrey own and operate the Mystic Music Studio and Agency, managing Ivory&Gold, JAS’M, The Titan Hot 7 and many other musical groups.
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Pianist and vocalist Jeff Barnhart met Anne, married her in 2000 and formed Ivory&Gold with her in 2001. While he is in constant demand by top Traditional Jazz or Swing groups and events throughout the world as a jazz and ragtime soloist and band pianist, he finds his work with Ivory&Gold to be most rewarding and exciting. During the group’s concerts and shows, Anne challenges him to new musical and comedic heights as they and their friend Danny Coots explore America’s timeless hits throughout the ages.
Jeff put himself through college playing piano, singing and entertaining throughout New England as a soloist and with jazz ensembles while earning a double bachelor’s degree in Music and English (Summa Cum Laude) from Connecticut College. He earned his Master’s in Education from the same school, but found that teaching English got in the way of his real love: performing music! Now he is on the road performing over 300 shows a year, many of them featuring Ivory&Gold®. To learn more about Jeff Barnhart, please visit www.jeffbarnhart.com.
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Danny Coots started playing drums in 1963 at the age of 6 in northern New York. From that time he studied with Nick Baffaro, Rich Holly, Alan Koffman and Jim Peteresak in percussion. He continued his education at Crane School of Music and St. Lawrence University. Danny became adjunct faculty at St. Lawrence University, Clarkson University and Potsdam State University from the mid-1970s into the 1990s, while traveling and performing with such jazz greats as, Herb Ellis, Will Alger, Jack Mayhew, Speigle Wilcox, Mimi Hines, Phil Ford, Bob Darch, Terry Waldo and Pearl Kaufman.
In 1995, Danny moved to make his home in Nashville, Tennessee. There he joined the Jack Daniels Silver Cornet Band for 5 years, and helped to found the Titan Hot Seven while playing and recording with Dave Hungate, Bill Allred, Randy Reinhart, John Cocuzzi, John Sheridan, Dan Barrett, Allen Vache, Vince Giordano and Rebecca Kilgore, and, of course, Ivory&Gold®. Danny has recorded extensively in Nashville, New York, Phoenix and Los Angeles on over 40 recordings, one of which received a Grammy in 2005. He has performed throughout the world, having appeared in 70 countries.
To learn more about Danny, visit his page at www.myspace.com
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