CREDITS

The Bluestone Sisters

ABOUT THE SONGWRITERS

Eileen Bluestone Sherman is  a playwright, lyricist, young adult novelist, television writer, and theater/music producer .When writing musical theater, she collaborates with her sister and composer, Gail C. Bluestone    From such illustrious New York City stages at LINCOLN CENTER,  CARNEGIE HALL, FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, SYMPHONY SPACE, THE BITTER END, THE CUTTING ROOM, GREEN ROOM 42 and radio airwaves worldwide, the Bluestone Sisters’ music has been performed live and/ or in the recording studio by such Broadway luminaries as Andrea McArdle, Jim Dale, Sutton Foster,Judy Kaye, Lillias White, Mark Jacoby, BJ Crosby, Donna McKechnie, Rachel York,  Karen Ziemba,  Elaine Stritch, Frank Gorshin, John Mahony, Priscilla Lopez, and many more of Broadway’s Best.  The sisters’ newest recording, “We Talk Without Words,” performed by Tony Award Winner, Christian Hoff, with his wife, Melissa, is featured on the new children’s album, Arise Together.   Through the years, the Bluestone Sisters’ work earned numerous honors, including  the Emmy Award  (The Odd Potato) for  best children’s special.   In addition, Eileen received The National Jewish Book Award (Monday in Odessa) and The International Reading Association Teachers’ Choice Award (Independence Avenue).  Gail, an award-winning music educator, was recognized multiple times by the city of Los Angeles as the “Outstanding Teacher of the Year.”  

Eileen, along with producing partner, Grant Maloy Smith, co-founded THE INDIE COLLABORATIVE, an international music organization (numbering 2000+ members)  that fosters unique collaborations, connecting musical genres, cultures, and continents.  In April 2022, THE INDIE COLLABORATIVE returned to Carnegie Hall with another eclectic cast of award winning musicians, “Celebrating Earth Day in Song.”  In Summer 2023, THE INDIE COLLABORATIVE will have its international debut in the UK.  

Currently, Eileen is working on a new play (with music by Gail) called Daughters and Their Mothers.   She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and The Authors Guild. Both sisters are proud members of ASCAP, The Recording  Academy, and serve as  Grammy Award Voters

To learn more about their projects, visit…..

wetalkwithoutwords.com

ebsoriginals.bookmark.com

ebsoriginalstheoddpotato.bookmark.com

indiecollaborative.com

Christian & Melissa Hoff

ABOUT THE RECORDING ARTISTS

The award-winning stage and screen actor Christian Hoff, teamed up with his beautiful leading lady, “on and off the stage,” Melissa Hoff, at OLD MILL ROAD RECORDING in winter of 2022 to create this jazz-waltz duet of “We Talk Without Words.”  While cold and snowy outside at the “NAMM TEC” award-winning East Arlington Vermont recording studio, the sparkle and understanding expressed in their vocals reveal a special warmth, true to the song’s theme.  

Best known for his TONY ® AWARD Winning performance in Broadway’s Jersey Boys and two GRAMMY ® AWARD Winning cast albums (Jersey Boys and The Who’s Tommy), Christian regularly bridges the worlds of jazz, rock & roll, and theater. As a solo performer and founding member of the vocal group The Midtown Men, Christian recently completed his 10th consecutive world tour. His lifelong TV, film, and music career highlights include being the first actor to portray Walt Disney on film in One Man’s Dream, originating “Richie” in Hanna-Barbera’s Richie Rich Cartoon Show, and surpassing the Guinness World Record for number of voices in an audiobook. Most currently, Christian is the radio host of Jazz ‘n TÖST, heard weekly on WEQX 102.7FM or jazzntost.com and host of The Broadway Summer Concert Series at The Southern Vermont Arts Center. 

Melissa Hoff has performed on the stages of The Hollywood Bowl (Nimue in Camelot, opposite Orson Bean, starring Jeremy Irons), The Los Angeles Opera (A Little Night Music with Victor Garber, Judith Ivey, Zoe Caldwell and Kristen Bell) and The La Jolla Playhouse (The Who’s Tommy: Reunion Concert, featuring Pete Townshend) and the Pre-Broadway production of Zhivago. Melissa hosts, entertains, and has produced for organizations such as ESPN’s Mohammed Ali Humanitarian Awards, The V Foundation Wine Celebration, The Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer and The NextGen V Foundations. As a mother of a child fighting cancer, as well as being a breast cancer survivor herself, Melissa passionately supports cancer care and research. She is married to Tony® Award-winning actor Christian Hoff and together they have five beautiful children.

Benjamin J. Arrindell

About Our Engineer

GRAMMY® AWARD-Winning engineer Benjamin J. Arrindell began his career in the late 1980s working in the advertising industry for Look & Co, a top NY jingle house. Within 2 years, he rose from Intern to Staff Engineer.  In 1991, Benjamin went to work for Platinum Island and then Soundtrack, two major NYC studios, before starting his freelance career in 1997.  Since then, Benjamin has gone on to work on dozens of albums which have sold millions of copies worldwide and received the most prestigious awards in the profession.

Benjamin landed his big break by mixing LSG’s “My Body”, which went multi-platinum worldwide. He then went on to mix Gerald Levert’s next album Love and Consequences, with mega-hits “Thinkin' Bout It” and “Taking Everything” going to No. 2 and No. 3 respectively on the Billboard Hot R&B/HipHop Singles charts. This led to opportunities to record / mix for classic R&B icons like Aretha Franklin, the OJs and The Temptations. (Benjamin contributed mixes to Ear-Resistible, which won a GRAMMY® for Best Traditional R&B Album in the year 2000.)

His understanding of a wide range of music would lead him to also mix urban tracks such as “Crazy” for K-Ci & Jo-Jo and the Busta Rhymes/Janet Jackson smash hit “What’s it Gonna Be.” Benjamin has lent his signature sound to diverse artists from Ladysmith Black Mambazo to Slick Rick, The Village People to Mary J. Blige, En Vogue to Kool & the Gang.

Benjamin earned the coveted GRAMMY® AWARD for mixing Yolanda Adams’ Soul Gospel Album The Experience.  He is the in-house Engineer at Old Mill Road Recording, which received the 2020 NAMM TEC® AWARD for Best Studio Design.