Sarah D Biography

Singer songwriter Sarah D has released four CDs over the years, Unfinished Business, Who Am I, Come To The Christ Child, and Illusion Mirage.  She is in the studio working on her fifth project: A Musical Celebration of New Birth.

Sarah D couples the haunting elegance of acoustic guitar with perhaps the best female voice in popular music today.  The rolling arpeggios and the rhythmic strumming of her American finger style guitar is a show all on its own.  Her pure bell like voice resonates in the core of your soul.  Taken together, Sarah D’s melodies, lyrics, guitar and voice, make for an extraordinary concert experience.

Sarah D plays inspirational acoustic music with lyrics that focus on the spiritual aspect of life's sojourn on earth.  She has a repertoire of over two hundred original songs that build a warm atmosphere in any venue.  Her songs help us to remember that "the most important of life's battles are fought in our minds."  Her lyrics have earned her the nickname "Conscience of America."  Her music is said to be "Medicine for the People."

Sarah D's musical talents in performance aren't limited to her original songs. She also entertains  and ministers to audiences with her personal mix of Broadway, Pop, and Standards with either guitar or piano accompaniment. 

Sarah D's strong spiritual roots were forged in the small town of Moses Lake in central Washington State where she grew up the youngest of fourteen children.  The harsh arid scab-lands mixed with the farming community kept her grounded and always cognizant of humanities dependence on the grace of God.  Her reliance on His saving grace and His willingness to lift the burdens of the weak who humbly come unto Him has shepherded her through many hard times.

Sarah D is not a teenager dreaming of a music career.  She is a wife and mother of five children balancing the demands of a large family against the rigors of working the music business.

She is keenly aware that without her faith in God, and her belief that she is doing His will, she would be unable to successfully manage the demands of her chosen path.  She gets an enormous amount of moral and technical support from her husband and children.

Sarah D is yet another in a long line of socially introspective Hudson Valley artists.  She takes musical inspiration from the likes of Peter, Paul, & Mary, The Eagles, Simon & Garfunkel, Bread, John Denver, and ABBA.

Sarah D graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Music and Dance.  She extended her formal music training at the Indiana Graduate School of Music.  She has performed in many musical's, operetta's, plays, and contata's.  She has directed her church's children's and adult choirs on and off since age 16.

Sarah D's diverse musical background lends a distinct flavor to her original songs; that empower individuals to be their own person and live their own dream.  (For those whose dream involves learning to play piano, guitar, violin or how to sing, click on the Music Lesson button.)

Sarah D has been heard in venues large and small: Carnegie Hall, Eisenhower Hall, Churches, Coffeehouses, Retirement Homes, Libraries and Clubs.  She has played from Boston to Washington DC, and from New York City to Seattle.

Her performance preferences are to play background music for corporate events and dinner parties or to use her music to minister to church  groups, spiritual retreats, and self help organizations.  Every year she provides the music for The Bereaved Parents in Orange County for their December Memorial Service. 

Sarah D created The Music in the Grove Concert Series in Walden NY with the help of her husband and the Walden Community Council.  She and her husband booked and ran this for the community for seven years before starting other ventures.  She now runs an open mic at her church on the 4th Saturday of every month.  See Calendar for more information. 

The Sarah D Showcase was a local access TV variety show she started and hosted for about 7 years previous to the concert series.  It was recorded and aired in Port Jervis NY for most of the years and the last year it aired on Time Warner Cable's local access channel out of Middletown, NY.

She will soon launch The Sarah D Show which will consist of a sharing of her live original music and spiritual self-help inspirations and a segment called
"An Economic Perspective" where her husband, Dr. Dean Dudley PhD. Economist candidly shares his perspective on current economic affairs with Sarah D.  The contrast between the free-flowing artistic mind with the well disciplined analytical mind makes for an informative and frequently amusing interplay.