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Music in the Park
August 13, 5-7pm
Ruth Gerson
Free outdoor concert on the Civic Center Lawn.
Hailed as “an underground songwriting master” (David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle) acclaimed singer/songwriter and vocal coach Ruth Gerson has appeared on the “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, “Extra”, PBS, Showtime, HBO and Lifetime television.
Ruth has recorded with Grammy winning artists and released seven independent albums. Gerson’s voice and songwriting students have appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan, Letterman, Disney, VH-1, MTV and American Idol. She has also helped many students prepare and gain acceptance to USC (Thornton), NYU (Steinhardt and Tisch), Berklee, Univ. of Miami (Frost), Carnegie Mellon, CalArts and many others college programs.
A native New Yorker, whose song “Maybe It’s You” hit top ten charts in Europe in the mid-90s, she now lives in the Bay Area. Along with performing and vocal coaching, Gerson arranges and produces.