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The Local Girls | Athens, Ohio

precision, three-part harmony

group photo of the local girls
Photo by Louise Fish
The Local Girls' Mimi Hart is featured in ACRN's Setting the Stage: Reminiscing Athens’ Music from the 1970s and 1980s

The Local Girls' popularity is anything but local.

The Athens, Ohio-based trio’s three-part harmony and engaging delivery has won them fans across the Midwest and even at the White House. The Local Girls have opened for Chubby Checker, accompanied David Bromberg, performed at the White House, and provided music for two award-winning series, one on women’s suffrage aired on NPR and a PBS-TV series on rural communities. In April, 2000 they appeared at Town Hall in New York City as guests of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. In the summer of 2004, The Local Girls performed throughout Germany, Austria and France and busked on the streets of Vienna.

Although much of their material focuses on the hot and vampy swing tunes of the 30s and 40s, like those of The Boswell Sisters and the Jimmie Lunceford Trio, the Local Girls regularly perform their own arrangements of western, bebop, blues and standards. Covering a century of American songwriting, The Local Girls create a warm, rich and varied musical event, bringing good humored and haunting harmonies to songs from the silly to the heartbreaking.

The Local Girls’ swinging backup consists of guitar accompanist, Mike McGannon and upright bass player, Terry Douds, along with many other fine musicians.

The Local Girls band has an engaging delivery in tight three-part harmony.  Along with swinging tunes of the 30’s/40’s, they perform pop, ballads, blues, and cowgirl songs. They have delighted audiences at the White House, on NPR, PBS-TV, Prairie Home Companion, and throughout France, Germany and Austria.

Covering a century of American songwriting, The Local Girls create a warm and varied musical event, bringing good humor and haunting harmonies to songs from the silly to the heartbreaking. Transcending nostalgia, they’ll delight lovers of live--and lively--music.
                                                 

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Want to book the Local Girls for a show?
YOU GIRLS SOUND LIKE ANGELS!"
—BOB EDWARDS, THE BOB EDWARDS SHOW,
XM SATELLITE RADIO (FORMERLY, HOST OF NPR'S MORNING EDITION)
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Mimi, Brenda, and Gay at the Glacier at Mayrhofen, Austria
A soundfest of three-part harmony that is so good it can make you cry with joy."
--Roman Warmke, The Athens News

Videos featuring The Local Girls

Firing Line video by Kim Linder
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea video by Sara Laird
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Photo by Jerry Jay Johnson

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If you're looking for this kind of 3-part harmony, 3 girls act, we're not it! --Brenda, Mimi, & Gay
From Athens, Ohio, to The White House. From A Prairie Home Companion to Europe. The Local Girls—precision, three-part harmony.  
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