Cyndie Hasty

“Cyndie Hasty is a musical force occupying the territory where country and blues overlap. Her lyrics reveal the journalistic eye for detail that mark a master musical storyteller.” Frederick GeoBold, WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City

Originally from the South, Cyndie is a singer-songwriter previously based in New York City and is now a resident of Guilford, Connecticut. Cyndie has toured extensively in the U.S., Europe and Asia and has been featured in performances at Lincoln Center, The House of Blues, Caroline’s Comedy Club, CBGB’s and The Tribeca Performing Arts Center. She has opened for NEA Jazz Master, Mose Allison, legendary vocalist, Margaret Whiting and Nathan & The Zydeco Cha-Cha’s.

Cyndie has recorded three CDs, Alabama Blues, Temptation and Live at Raga. She has composed two musicals that premiered as workshops in New York City, Children To The Flame and The Blue-Eyed Boy.
She performed regularly in Manhattan with Other Voices, a non-profit arts organization celebrating up-and-coming writers, poets, lyricists and playwrights.

Cyndie was featured at Harlem Stages in Two Roads Diverged: A Dialogue on Irish and Black Contributions to American Culture. This three-part series was created by Lenwood Sloan, choreographer, dancer, actor and historian [whose credits include the Emmy-winning PBS documentaries, American Experience: Stephen Foster and Great Performances: Dance Black America] and the late Dr. Michael “Mick” Moloney, Global Distinguished Professor of Irish Studies and Music at NYU and internationally renowned tenor-banjo player. The production utilized dancers, singers and musicians to examine Irish American and African American cultural fusions, exchanges, rivalries and stereotypes that developed from the Caribbean and Southern communities in the 1650s through slavery, the Civil War, blackface, the birth of vaudeville and Broadway. The performances were followed by an interactive forum with the audience.

Cyndie was a rostered Pennsylvania Artist-in-Residence and with sister, playwright Nancy Hasty, co-created, Under a Lackawanna Moon, a historical cemetery musical performed in the Dunmore and Waverly cemeteries. Using archives, artifacts, family letters and oral histories, Under A Lackawanna Moon highlighted the plight of working children, immigrants, coal miners, runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad and Civil War heroes.