Monica-Lisa Mills & Matt Borgmeyer

Teaches at The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

Monica-Lisa Mills has spent the past ten years studying traditional unaccompanied singing with an emphasis on Irish/Gaelic (sean nós) songs and, more recently, Appalachian ballads. She has an extensive background in vocal training and performance, from early music, classical and choral singing, to musicals and experimental harmony singing. She trained as an actor at North Carolina School of the Arts with a focus on voice and music. Matt Borgmeyer brings a mixture of musical experience to Jalopy. He has performed for the past twelve years as part of the Manhattan Choral Ensemble with a firm grounding in the western choral canon. Many moons ago he was the musical director of Yale’s folk-singing group Tangled Up in Blue. He has continued his studies of traditional music at Jalopy with classes in banjo, guitar, ensemble work and vocal harmony.