Lucy Kaplansky

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Drawn to Greenwich Village in the late '70s by the
resurgence of the folk scene, she became a regular at Gerde's Folk City. By 1982, she was
a member of the CooP (later Fast Folk) and was featured on nine of the group's "musical
magazines," along with Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, John Gorka, Richard Shindell, and others.
Well known on the folk scene for her crystalline harmonies, Kaplansky sang harmony vocals on
Nanci Griffith's Lone Star State of Mind and Little Love Affairs albums and performed in New
York clubs as a duo with Colvin while earning her Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. But when she
and Colvin attracted attention from record companies, Kaplansky declined, becoming a staff
psychologist at a New York hospital and establishing a private practice while Colvin recorded her first three albums for Columbia Records.

Lucy's rising popularity has led to appearances on the CBS Morning Show, NPR's Weekend
and Morning Editions, Mountain Stage, West Coast Live, Acoustic Cafe, and Vin Scelsa's Idiot's
Delight. Lucy also contributed her story to a unique new book, SOLO: Women Singer-Songwriters
in Their Own Words, which includes some of the best known women on the music scene today
including Ani DiFranco, Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, Jewel, and Sarah McLachlan. She was also
featured in Lipshtick, a collection of essays by NPR commentator Gwen Macsai.