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Hollywood Concerts Examiner, interview with Phyllis Pollack

Sara Wasserman talks about her new ‘Solid Ground’ album and her upcoming gig at Hollywood’s Key Club
September 23, 10:44 PMHollywood Concerts ExaminerPhyllis Pollack

SARA WASSERMAN INTERVIEWED ABOUT HER NEW ALBUM “SOLID GROUND”
By Phyllis Pollack
Sara Wasserman will be opening the show at the Key Club in Hollywood for headlining act Living Colour on September 24. Sara’s father [...]

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Weir, Two Wassermans and Friends Scare the Children

Original RatDog members Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman and Jay Lane regrouped this past Saturday as Scaring the Children for a performance at Mill Valley, CA’s 142 Throckmorton Theatre. The show benefited the Blue Bear School of Music and featured an opening set by RatDog’s summer tour companion Jackie Greene.
Scaring the Children, a name Weir and [...]

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SARA WASSERMAN + LIVING COLOUR ON TOUR AND ON SOLID GROUND

SARA WASSERMAN + LIVING COLOUR ON TOUR AND ON SOLID GROUND
Sara Wasserman’s new album SOLID GROUND, released earlier this summer by That Other Label/Pacific Coast Jazz includes a canny cover of Hall & Oats’ classic “Sara Smile.” The song was a natural as it was often sung to little Sara as she was growing up [...]

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Cap Cod Times: “It goes without saying that the execution here is superb.” “…there’s a lot to really like here.”

 

Cape Code TimesCapt. Ken’s Music Musings
By Ken Capobianco
August 22
Record Roundup: Noelle Hampton, Sara Wasserman and Much More
Sara Wasserman is the daughter of the extraordinary bassist Rob Wasserman. On her debut, “Solid Ground” (That Other Label), she shows that having good genes makes a difference in life. So does having food friends. Among the musicians who [...]

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Want to get my attention – put ANY of the Neville Brothers on a cut – and I’ll give it a listen to – and this cut is a keeper! She keeps up with Aaron, and makes the blend, smooth like…well…butter ;-) Mike D’Amore SinCity 247

SARA WASSERMAN Solid Ground
Source: That Other Label / Pacific Coast Jazz
Aug 11, 2009 – 5:15:47 PM
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Want to get my attention – put ANY of the Neville Brothers on a cut – and I’ll give it a listen to – and this cut is a keeper! She keeps up with Aaron, and makes the blend, [...]

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“… intuitive, wide-ranging and personal.” ~Jim Bessman

Singer-songwriter Sara Wasserman, whose new debut album Solid Ground is garnering glowing notice, is giving renowned bassist Rob Wasserman—her father—a job.
She’s employing him for two of the biggest gigs of her budding solo career—tomorrow night’s show in her native Bay Area at Yoshi’s San Francisco and again at New York’s showcase club Joe’s Pub on [...]

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“..a sweet arsenal of songs with plenty of charm to win you over time and again.” GlideMagazine.com

Solid Ground
By Jason Gonulsen, GLIDEMagazine.com
July 24, 2009
Singer-songwriter Sara Wasserman knows a little something about patience. Her debut album, Solid Ground, took seven years to finish, and the carefully crafted project is as promising as it is polished. Possessing a voice that echoes Over the Rhine’s Karin Bergquist, Wasserman delivers the goods on tunes like “Solid [...]

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“Sara Wasserman clearly was in charge during the making of her debut album, Solid Ground…” ~Medleyville

Medleyville, Music coverage for eclectic tastes
WORKING FROM THE GROUND UP
Sara Wasserman releases her debut album
Although she was helped out by a variety of music industry veterans – including her father, the acclaimed bassist Rob Wasserman — singer Sara Wasserman clearly was in charge during the making of her debut album, Solid Ground (That Other Label).
She [...]

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Magic 99, Alberta, Canada – 4 Mics!

Solid Ground – Sara Wasserman
Posted July 21st, 2009 by ashley kubbinga
The entertainment world is filled with examples of kids who did not exactly follow in the successful footsteps of their more famous mothers or fathers.
Sara Wasserman is the exception to the “Julian Lennon” rule.
Sara is Rob Wasserman’s kid.  Rob is a GRAMMY winning bassist, who [...]

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Bay Area music royalty, kicks off her own career By Jim Harrington

Jim Harrington: Sara Wasserman, daughter of Bay Area music royalty, kicks off her own career
By Jim Harrington
Oakland Tribune
Sara Wasserman, the daughter of bassist Rob Wasserman, will perform at a CD release party at…
SARA WASSERMAN can claim something that few others can: her first concert performance was witnessed by thousands.
The year was 1997 and the setting [...]

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