The title of this program is also the name of these three wonderful musician’s latest CD.

Strings Magazine describes The Voices That Are Gone as a ..."a heartfelt and imaginative interpretation of 19th-century pop songs that were familiar at a time when America was torn asunder by racial divide and political turmoil".

Matt Turner, who conceived the project, is the pre-eminent jazz cellist on this continent or any other.

Pianist Bill Carrothers uses jazz as a starting point to launch profound musical statements that incorporate sometimes disparate elements of classical, folk, avant guard and jazz themes.

The Minneapolis Tribune describes vocalist Peg Carrothers as: ...”making each tune fresh and revelatory -- not comfy. Her voice is clear and warm, flowing and trumpet-like, light but never wispy”.

When so many of us regard retro as meaning something as far back as the 1950s here is a trio that not only draws from a composer who died before the outcome of the civil war, but infuses Stephen Foster’s American folk sentiments with all the momentous musical architecture of the last 150 years. Turner, Carrothers & Carrothers interpret this great American composer with wit, charm, melancholy and artistic sensitivity.

Without irony, The Voices That Are Gone is fresh and original.