A true city girl, Amanda was raised in Manhattan and can't understand why no one outside of New York likes the Yankees. After studying Latin in the woods of New Hampshire, Amanda drove out to San Francisco to give California a try. After a brief and dark period spent in consulting, Amanda has found her true calling as a merchandising mogul. When she's not debating the merits of Yves Klein blue and healthcare reform, Amanda can be found at her local farmers market or karaoke bar. She enjoys parallel parking, the Sunday Times, correct grammar and spelling as well as gin martinis with extra olives. Growing up, Amanda loved few things more than Michael Dukakis, pottery class and her jean skirt. Other interests now include opera, recipe-writing, The McLaughlin Group and armchair psychoanalysis. A former resident of Chinatown, Amanda recently moved to Pacific Heights due to its proximity to Whole Foods and surfeit of parking spots. go back to the top
Carey is originally from Buffalo, NY where she graduated with a degree in Music Business. Music has always been an important part of her life. She is amazed at music's healing power and ability to bring people together. Carey has been singing with the Loose Interpretations for the past three years. In addition to A Cappella, she also studies voice and piano. Carey loves performing and feels very fortunate to sing with such a fun group of women!
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Dianne has been singing with the Loose Interpretations since she moved to San Francisco in the fall of 2006. Originally from Pennsylvania, Dianne grew up singing in school choruses and performing in a variety of musical theater productions. In 2005, she graduated from Brandeis University, where she majored in English and Spanish and sang with Proscenium, a co-ed campus a cappella group. She has also performed with the Coro de la Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When she's not singing with the Loosies, Dianne enjoys cooking, taking photos, drinking coffee in bookshops, volunteering at the local farmer's market and getting to know her new city inside out.
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Frances is a Bay Area native, born in San Francisco. She works as a creative arts therapist with seniors, and does occasional stints in nursing, teaching, and music. Her interests: singing with The Loose Interpretations, eating out, traveling, animals, dancing, nature, artsy craftsy stuff, writing and performing her music on guitar and piano. She's looking forward to her upcoming CD, and also to her upcoming wedding in September!
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Kristy is the founder and sort-of musical director of The Loose Interpretations.
Tired of being a grown-up (how'd that happen?) and living without music in her post-collegiate life, Kristy posted an ad on Craigslist in the winter of 2004...and The Loose Interpretations was born. After a few stops and starts, the group has grown to its current fabulousness: a collection of talented, interesting, and really fun women who enjoy each other's company almost as much as the wine that inevitably shows up at rehearsals.
Kristy is originally from Connecticut, but loves living among the more liberal (read: "crazy") folks in San Francisco. She is an avid blogger, and writes a lot of embarrassing stuff at She Just Walks Around With It. Professionally, she is a marketing and events diva, and currently works full time for BlogHer, managing their conferences.
Kristy's musical background includes several years of classical vocal training, almost a decade of piano lessons, and the haunting memory of having been in the high school marching band. In fact, she was the drum major in her senior year and even took special classes on conducting techniques, none of which she currently uses. Yes, she did go to band camp. No, she didn't play the flute. go back to the top
Laurel, is a Bay Area native recently returned from Atlanta, where she attended Agnes Scott College. She was an extracurriculars major with occasional focus in psychology and music. While at Agnes Scott, she led the college's only a cappella group, Luchsingers A Cappella, who did not interpret many things loosely.
Loosies is a welcome change in pace from the fast and furious world of college a cappella. She began studying classical voice at 14, and fortunately discovered a cappella at 18 and saved herself from a lifetime of arpeggios and diction classes. She is the daughter of two professional classical musicians, and while she appreciates the high caliber of the music she grew up around, truly believes the happiest musicians are amateurs.
She spends her free time doing a smattering of things, including arranging, reading, sewing, dancing, and doing advocacy work for survivors of sexual assault. She is currently the Events and Development Coordinator at The Volunteer Center Serving San Francisco and San Mateo.
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Lindsay has been singing since she could open her mouth. Raised by two music majors from Loyola University in New Orleans, music was a staple of her household. As a young girl, she performed in nursing homes in Mississippi with her sister. Their favorite routine was from Annie — "Hey Hobo Man" and if the old people clapped hard enough, they'd dance to Michael Jackson for them. In her high school and college years, she sang in a quartet, choirs, weddings, and a rock band. Her favorite vocal experience though was the Women's Choir at the University of Mississippi under the direction of Dr. Jean Jorden. They sang many liturgical pieces and even performed mass in latin at Notre Dame on a European tour. The Loose Interpretations is Lindsay's new musical enjoyment and first a cappella choir to participate in.
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Lisa is from New York City and moved to San Francisco three years ago. She graduated from the University of Vermont, and it was there that her love for a cappella began. She finally got up the nerve to audition for the UVM Cat's Meow her senior year of college. After that, there was no looking back. Lisa sang in Treble, an all female group in New York, and was thrilled to find the Loose Interpretations in San Francisco. When not making a cappella magic with the rest of the Loosies, she works for an online ad agency and sings in a 70s and 80s cover band called Total Eclipse (www.totaleclipseband.com).
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Sandra was a Barbershop Baby. Born in Sweden, her parents were very active in the Barbershop community there, forming and directing choruses as well as singing in and coaching quartets. After moving to Los Angeles at age 5, her mother continued working with Sweet Adelines and her step-father was part of a well-known quartet that appeared on Cheers and Ferris Bueller among other things back in the day (he later formed a new quartet which won the International competition in 2004).
Though Sandra occasionally dabbled in singing, she was more focused on instrumental music, sports, etc during her school days. After graduating from UCLA, she moved to the Bay Area, and stumbled upon The Loose Interpretations, who are now a constant source of awesomeness in her life.
Sandra is the Director of Marketing for a startup called MixMatchMusic and writes for their blog, Evolving Music. Always the chameleon, her current alter-egos include bartender (though she strongly prefers the title "beer wench") and go-go dancer. In addition to singing, Sandra enjoys adding pins to her map of world travels, speaking different languages, dancing of any kind (though favorites include lindy-hop, tango, salsa and blues), wake/snowboarding, and entertaining people with her inherent clumsiness.
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Originally from San Luis Obispo, Sara grew up singing in junior high through college and participated in competitive vocal jazz choirs (sans sequins, gloves, or dance routines) in high school and college. After a long hiatus while working and attending graduate school, Sara joined the Loosies, and routinely and enthusiastically claims rehearsals to be "the best part of the week!" You can catch her singing full tilt in the car across the Bay Bridge where she works as a pediatric intensive care nurse. In her abundance of free time, Sara enjoys sewing, crafting, cooking, trying to be green, denying she watches crap reality television, and generally acting like an old lady (has anyone seen my Aspercreme?).
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Susan is a California native who enjoys making fun of San Francisco hippies while enjoying the leftyness of her chosen home here in San Francisco. A choir nerd all her life, she gave up a chance to be a cheerleader in high school for the allure of a madrigral style choir, where she got to dance with boys in pantaloons and tights and had a cracker-jack sailor costume custom made for her by a local theater costume shop. She went on to found the TriTones, UC San Diego's first university-affiliated a cappella group, and produced the 'Tones first album, Size 12. Susan turned in her flip-flops and beat-up Volvo of the UCSD years for a career in web-based & enterprise search software development and product management in the Bay Area. She found both The Loose Interpretations and her fiance on Craigslist and looks forward to a brilliant future with both.
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