sarah pedinotti

Sarah Pedinotti was raised in the countryside of upstate New York, one of seven in a family of artists.  She was inspired at an early age to write music on her parents’ out-of-tune upright piano.  Her father played songs on guitar and banjo and taught Sarah songs he learned from the blues revival of the nineteen-sixties.  Sarah loved listening to his old records.  Some of her favorite artists were Woody Guthrie, Buddy Holly, Billie Holiday and The Beatles.  Soon she started a record collection of her own.  Among her beloved artists are Lou Reed, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Sarah Vaughan, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.

In 1996, her parents started a jazz bistro in downtown Saratoga Springs called One Caroline Street.  Sarah claims the bistro is "like a third parent.”  On summer nights, as a kid, she would stay up late, bus tables and listen to the live music.  She was 12 years old when she first started to sit in with the jazz bands that performed there nightly.  Over the years she has sung with many local and famous musicians over the years, including Wynton Marsalis Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra members Marcus Printup, Eric Lewis and Ali Jackson. 

Sarah has since recorded two albums and is releasing her third album, “City Bird” this June.  In 2005, her latest album, One Mirror, was listed by Billboard Magazine editor Thom Duffy as one of the ten best new albums of the year.  He describes Pedinotti as, “a talented young singer/songwriter on the rise.”  In 2003, Duffy listed her first album, “You Go to My Head,” in this category as well.

This past summer, The Sarah Band played The Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival along with Branford Marsalis, Diane Schuur, and Mose Allison.  And kicked off this past summer’s Freihofer's Jazz Fest at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center opening for Etta James, Smokey Robinson, and Dave Brubeck, among others.

you can email sarah at sarah@sarahpedinotti.com