When Sally Potter isn’t directing the Mid-Winter Singing Festival, leading the Fiddle’s Annual Holiday Sing, leading the Monthly Community Sings, singing with Sistrum, or providing special music at The Mayflower Church, she is tutoring Economics students at the Learning Commons at Lansing Community College.
Sally’s grandmother, Lillian Paulson Potter was an opera singer, and later, a church choir director, producing countless community events over a fifty-year span. Her uncle, Brian Shanley, played jazz clarinet with Bob Scoby’s band in Chicago in the 50’s. Yet it was when her brother Tom taught her Old-Time tunes on his back-up banjo that Sally settled into the folk music world.
A mainstay in the Mid-Michigan folk music community since 1984, Sally was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from FARM, Folk Alliance Region Mid-West. From 1989 – 2001, Sally, Betsy Clinton and Pat Madden were members of the very popular folk trio, Second Opinion. In 2005, Sally released her fifth CD, this one together with Madden, entitled, “it’s about time.” This past year, Sally released her first solo CD, “Summer’s Child.”
In 2003, Sally organized the first Mid-Winter Singing Festival, now an annual event where hundreds of people get together on the first weekend in February – just to sing. Since then, she has continued to perform, song lead, and help produce numerous music events, including this annual Holiday Sing. She is also the volunteer concert booking manager for the 50 year-old Ten Pound Fiddle Concert and Dance Series.
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