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Meet our musicians

Liz photoLiz Ficalora

“One of those rare percussionists who approaches the drum kit as an instrument.  Liz is the drummer your band always dreamed about but never thought existed.”


— C.J. Watson, Editor and Chief,
The Nashville Rant

     

The owner, Liz Ficalora, will be producing, engineering, and arranging your songs. Liz has years of musical experience as a Nashville drummer and producer. She has a great talent of knowing just what you song needs to make it stand out from the rest. In 2007 alone, she has produced The Paint Sisters with John Carter Cash,and produced and engineered 35 songs with 20 songwriters.

She has developed a method and authored the manual How to Write a Fast and Easy Drum Chart, which is getting attention from Modern Drummer Magazine. She is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music. She has earned a National Award for her jingle composition for Maxwell House Coffee. Her underscoring and composition work has appeared in the documentary Preservation Works, produced by the Massachusetts Historical Society and in the movie, Richard II, directed by John Farrell.

As a drummer, her extensive travel includes touring with Stella Parton and seeing the world as a drummer and arranger for the Carnival Cruise Line. Upon returning from the seas, Liz became the choral director for T. W. Hunter Middle School.

In 2004, Liz opened Ficalora Music Productions, a new digital recording studio to pursue a career as producer, engineer, and session drummer. Her vision for the future focuses on producing, writing, and engineering album and song productions for artists and songwriters. Her company has expanded globally through the internet , hoping to reach all professional and aspiring artists, songwriters, and musicians.

 

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Jill photoJill Sissel

Vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, keyboards, flute, harmonica


Originally from Utah, is an extraordinary singer/songwriter and musician producing insightful Americana flavored music. She has achieved Just Plain Folks Songwriting Contest nominations for 2001 Best Americana Song with, Love Knows No Distance, and Best Americana Album with Love Knows No Distance; and 1999 Best Americana Album with The Builder, and an honorable mention with NSAI's songwriting competition with the duet, Safe Inside written with Paul Jackson in 2001. She produced the theme for an independent film entitled Murphy’s Law and she wrote another composition for the score. Jill has opened for major league acts including Dan Seals, Tracy Lawrence, Jo Dee Messina and Ty England.

 

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