Five Firsts: Martha Cluver of Roomful of Teeth

NAME: Martha Cluver
BAND AFFILIATION: Roomful of Teeth
INSTRUMENT: soprano and whistler

1. THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS … Vanilla Ice’s single “Ice Ice Baby” on cassette. Wow…

2. THE FIRST CONCERT THAT I EVER SAW WAS … first rock concert? Elton John at Radio City Music Hall in 2005! Saw oodles of musicals and orchestra concerts since a very young age.

3. THE FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT I EVER OWNED OR PLAYED WAS … violin

4. THE FIRST SONG THAT I EVER PERFORMED IN PUBLIC WAS … well, I got to sing “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” over my elementary school’s PA system. I think I was nine years old. That was weird…

5. THE FIRST BAND I WAS EVER IN WAS … I was in a great band called Beyondo when I moved to NYC. I sang back-up vocals. That was 2004-2006.

Vocalist Martha Cluver joins her fellow singers in the Grammy Award-winning adventurous a cappella ensemble Roomful of Teeth for a concert at Proctors’ GE Theatre in Schenectady at 7:30pm on Wednesday (February 11). Tickets are $35.

BUT WAIT… We’re giving away a pair of FREE TICKETS to the show. To enter, just post a comment below. Please leave your email address, too. We won’t publish it, but we’ll use it to contact you if you win. The deadline to enter is 12noon on Tuesday (February 10), and the winner will be selected at random and notified on Tuesday afternoon. Don’t delay, enter today! And good luck!