debut album
Because He Was a Weasel
Songs for Courage, Comfort, and Fun
An album of original songs by Eleanor Aversa
Sung by…
Jillian Aversa (soloist with the Baltimore, National, and San Diego Symphonies)
Dan Callaway (title role in the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway)
Josephine Kraemer (Pacific Opera Theater)
Shradha Ganesh (2025 Grammy nominee)
Nadia Washington (Jazz at Lincoln Center)
Additional vocals are by Boston-area soloists Anney Barrett, Craig Juricka, and Nmesoma Ogbuani, as well as the Vox Futura studio choir on “Sun in the Moon.”
Instrumentalists are…
pianist Amy Bellamy (Jazz at Lincoln Center)
drummer Lee Fish (Berklee Global Jazz Institute)
guitarist Andres Guerra (scholarship from the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation)
clarinetist Bill Kirkley and cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws (both Boston Musica Viva)
bassist John Lockwood (performances with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz)
percussionist Matt Sharrock (Innova, Navona, New Focus Recordings)
Acoustic arrangements are by Eleanor Aversa (Composition Professor, Berklee College of Music)
Electronic arrangements are by Andrew Aversa (Game Audio Network Guild award winner)
“These are terrific songs. . . The lyrics, beautiful harmonies and instrumentation, and of course, the execution by the musicians and singers, is wonderful.”
-Michael Minard, Songwriter (Disney Channel, PBS, Sesame Street)
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