Music has always asked, “Please don’t create me, for in this life I can just be allowed…”

Rising from the crystalline shores of Sarasota, Florida, CHIME releases a transcendent world fusion experience that is at once modern yet steeped in tradition. Their co-creative journey combines a synchronistic mélange of gypsy, folk, and rock elements delivered with improvisational expressions of formless unity. The collective intent of CHIME is to share the purity and infinity of music and connectivity with all kindred spirits. Exploring the process of experimentation over product, five musicians as one summon a diverse palette of influences to reveal an organic soul-stirring environment of sonic revolution.

MUSICIANS

Sage – Lead voices, acoustic guitar, exotic everythings
Jennifer Gehl – Violin, vocals
Lova Michelle– guitar, vocals
Matt Mitchell – Bass guitar
Claire Franklin – Drums and percussion

DISCOGRAPHY

Starrain – Eight song CD recorded in two days (2000 Independent Records)
Between Dreams – Nine song CD recorded in three days. Bonus features include: Live video (2001 Independent Records)

THE JOURNEY

1999

- CHIME is born - Sarasota, Florida

- First live show: ‘Sarasota 2K Festival for the Arts’ (New Years Eve)

2000

- Performance at the “Free Leonard Peltier” benefit concert (February - Atlanta, Georgia)

- Recording and release of first independent CD entitled, Starrain (May)

- Concert benefit for Green Party presidential candidate, Ralph Nader (October - Tampa, Florida)

2001

- Performs for the annual ‘Rainbow Gathering’ fund-raising event in Tampa, Florida (February)

- Tampa’s Earth Day celebration concert (April)

- Organized and produced Mother’s Day concert to benefit ‘Mothers helping Mothers’ charity (May)

- Recording and release of second independent CD, Between Dreams (May)

- Performs with Melissa Ferrick at WMNF sponsored event (August - Tampa, Florida)

2002

- Wins First Place in Chrysler Jeep Bayfest – Battle of the Bands (May - St. Petersburg, Florida / sponsored by TV32)

- Performs with Big Sky at Eckerd College (September - St. Petersburg, Florida)

- Opening performance with Dishwalla (October - St. Petersburg, Florida)

2003

- The evolution of CHIME to be continued…