Cyndi Meinck  -  Ally Smith  -  Lori Krout

  Ally Smith  is a contemporary folk-pop singer/songwriter who has been compared with musicians like Kate Wolf, Sandy Denny, and Judy Collins. She s been writing & performing her unique music style for nearly 20 years. Ally had classical training on the viola as a child, but is otherwise self-taught on guitar, violin and cello, as well as voice. She is an accomplished studio musician and has recorded with almost a dozen Florida artists. Over the past decade, she has performed on over a dozen live radio shows. Ally released her first solo CD in April 1996 titled "Think I’ll Grab A Train", as well as a cassette titled "Live & Otherwise". She is planning a third release for winter 1999. Ally had her band beginnings in ’88 with White Rainbow (contemporary Christian group), to Myriad (contemporary folk) in ’90, to The Ally Smith Band (original pop) in ’96, to Rosewood Station fall ’97. She currently divides her time between the latest version of "The Ally Smith Band", along with "Rosewood Station" and Desert Rain.  Ally established her own publishing company "Ally's Window Publishing Co./BMI" in 1992.

    Lori Krout  has been singing harmonies since she was a small child. With her early roots in choral music, she began participating in the adult choir of her family’s church at the tender age of ten years. She has been writing songs sporadically for the past two decades, but began to focus on songwriting again in 1994, creating both moving ballads and upbeat songs with a sense of humor. Lori was chosen as one of twenty finalists in the National Songwriting Competition at the 1997 South Florida Folk Festival She was a solo artist for several years in the Ft. Lauderdale area, performing at many venues there. Lori lends her rich vocals, guitar picking, mountain dulcimer playing, and percussion to "Rosewood Station".