PATRICIA DALTON
Patricia Dalton is a jazz singer who performs regularly in the Albany area, along with Peg Delaney on piano, Bill Delaney on bass, and Steve Raleigh on guitar. Her repertoire is comprised of American Popular Songbook standards, including Berlin, Gershwin and Porter. She has also had the honor of performing with noted jazz singer Giacomo Gates and legendary composer, conductor, and musician David Amram. She was also mentioned in Roll Magazine in December 2008, describing her frequent collaborations with popular jazz pianist John Esposito.

Whether working in the finest bistros in the Northeast, or preparing exquisite food for friends and family in her own kitchen, Patricia Dalton embraces the pleasures of excellent food.

Her first instructor was her grandmother, Nora Theresa Foley Moriarty, who immigrated to the United States where she cooked in some of the finest homes in early 20th century New England. Later, when Patricia was a child living on the Rockefeller estate, she was allowed to work alongside the chefs, training in how to properly mint a julep and how to prepare salads and entrées tableside.

As an adult, she worked in a variety of upstate New York establishments, including the Gideon Putnam Hotel and The Golden Fox. At the jazz bistro One Caroline Street in Saratoga Springs, she began blending her twin loves of jazz and fine cookery. Frim Fram Sauce, her CD recording, proclaims this affinity to the world. It's a combination of American songbook standards and the original Frim Fram recipes that she and Chef Michael Cunningham of Provence restaurant concocted together.

PEG DELANEY
Peg Delaney plays sophisticated piano jazz, drawing from American, Latin and Brazilian idioms. She has released three CDs: Hotline, If I Had You, and The Island Suite. She plays in solo and duo contexts, with larger combos, multiple singers, various horns and guitar. Peg has been a two-time recipient of the New York State Council for The Arts: Meet the Composer Grant, was semifinalist in the Musician Magazine Best Unsigned Band Competition, and was awarded the Swingtime Lifetime Achievement Award as pianist and educator. Her transcription book of Nick Brignola Solos is sold internationally by Jamey Aebersold and has appeared in the Saxophone Journal. It is on the New York State Music Teachers Association adjudication list, and is recognized by the National Jazz Educators Association.

STEVE RALEIGH
Steve Raleigh, guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator, teaches music as an adjunct music professor at Orange County Community College, is on staff at the National Guitar Workshop, Rock Camp, and as senior music instructor at Imperial Guitar & Soundworks in Newburgh, NY. He is also owner and operator of LWR Productions Recording Studio. Throughout his career he has worked and toured with many groups including the Steve Raleigh trio, his quintet Inner Door, Judi Silvano, October Project, Evelyn Blakey, Nick Brignola, Darmond Meader (New York Voices), Clint Holmes, and Tony Martin, as well as opening for Chuck Mangione and Tommy James to name a few. Steve has been credited as assistant producer on two CD releases on the Evidence record label. and produced numerous records including 2 Charles Lyonhart CD's on his own LWR Productions label. Steve has also had one of his solo guitar arrangements published in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine (Feb 2001), released his third solo CD Collage in 2001, released his 4th with his Jazz Quartet "inner Door," a collection of 7 original compositions, and is current working on a live CD with his current band, The Llama Dollies.

CHEF MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
Chef Michael Cunningham of Provence Restaurant is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where he received training in advanced food preparation, flavor development and balance, sauce work, fish preparation, and meat fabrication. He has worked with many notable chefs in his career, including his journeyman experience with Chef Rene Fachette, with whom he was classically trained in the European tradition.  Chef Cunningham developed his culinary approach as he travelled and established restaurants throughout the United States including two of his own highly reviewed bistros in Florida. He is a member of American Culinary Federation and the Chaine Rotisserie Society of New York and was named one of the top five chefs in upstate New York. He has received numerous four-star reviews and Provence was recently named the best French restaurant in the region by Metroland magazine.

Thank you to everyone who brought me to the music. Starting more or less from the beginning: Dorothy, Nora, Miss Jane Byington, Lestor Taylor, Sr. Jane Murphy, John Esposito, Sheila Jordan, Tommy Charlap, Pete Sweeney, Jeff Hess, Giacomo Gates. And thank you to my new friends at Provence: Michael, Jason, all of the gracious staff , owners Susanne and Daniel, and of course Addison. A special thank you to my creative comrade, Chef Michael Cunningham. And a special thank you to my mentors and coconspirators, Peg and Bill Delaney… you make it possible.

This is a promise kept.

Peg Delaney: Piano
Bill Delaney: Bass
Steve Raleigh: Guitar
Chef Michael Cunningham: Hot Stove
Patricia Dalton Fennell: Vocals