Women in Music

Jennifer Maidman is a world renowned musician who plays bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, ukulele, cuatro and Chapman Stick. Constantly in demand as a studio player, her work can be heard on hundreds of recordings including many international hits. She is also a singer and songwriter, performing live in the UK and the US. Jennifer’s solo album, Dreamland, features a stellar line up including Annie Whitehead, David Torn and Jerry Marotta. She has toured all over the world with Joan Armatrading, David Sylvian, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Murray Head, and Boy George among others.

Marianne Osiel is a performing singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and arranger. Her music is rooted in classical, blues, folk, and jazz. A sought-after “sideman” starting with her years in Nashville, she’s played, sung, and recorded on slide guitar, oboe, flute, and voice with such artists as John Hall, Nanci Griffith, Rachel Sage, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, David Olney, and Gary Nicholson. Marianne played oboe for a decade with the Nashville Symphony, soloing with them during some of the Pops concerts as a guest vocalist. Marianne’s latest ventures are becoming part of the Creative Improvisers Orchestra founded by Karl Berger and playing English horn in a quartet lead by bassist/composer Michael Bisio.

The series will be curated and hosted by Elly Wininger who performed in one of Judy’s “Women in Music” concerts. Elly is a an acoustic and slide guitarist, and songwriter known for her roots in the Greenwich Village Folk and Blues scene. She was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame in 2014, and her album The Blues Never End (2021) spent over four months in the top six albums on the Roots Music Report’s Acoustic Blues chart, with several weeks at Number One. Beyond performing, Wininger has produced award-winning music documentaries for public radio and hosted numerous radio shows. Like Judy, she conducts workshops which empower people of all ages and abilities to write their own songs.
www.ellywininger.com

Judy Whitfield was a beloved singer-songwriter who performed her own songs and organized concerts and multi-arts gatherings in the Hudson Valley. The Woodstock Times awarded her “Women in Music” series the region’s “Best Ongoing Music Series,” with Judy being named “Ms. Entertainment. Although she passed away from complications of MS in 2025, her spirit remains strong. Judy’s talent, curiosity, generosity, wit and humor will be celebrated in the continuation of “Women in Music” at Colony Woodstock.

Judy Whitfield’s Women in Music Series:
`* Every Last Thursday *
April 30: Marianne Osiel / Jennifer Maidman
May 28 : Michele Gedney & Jen Clapp / KJ Denhert & the Evening News
June 25 : Sylvia Bulllett / Nancy Donnelly

Thursday April 30, 2026
Doors 6pm | Show 7pm