WAMMY-nominated Hot Soup is the collective name for Christina Muir, Jennifer Agner and Sue Trainor. Recognizing few boundaries, Hot Soup covers blues, folk, Celtic, swing, Calypso, and novelty tunes. Soup Happens, their latest recording, was ranked 23rd in frequency of airplay out of all albums played in the year 2000 by DJs reporting to the Folk and Bluegrass DJ internet list.
Christina Muir is the daughter of national folksinger Ann Mayo Muir. She has added her vocal harmonies to recordings by fellow artists and opened for the likes of Dar Williams, Bill Stains, David Wilcox, and Lui Collins.
Jennifer Agner adds her saucy soprano vocals to the trio. She favors swing and other tradition-based song styles, and her proficiency on guitar, banjo and accordion adds extra spice to the group Her CD, This Small Town (with The Dilettantes), features her roots-inspired original songs.
Sue Trainor is best known for satirical humor in her adult shows and imaginative musical play in her children's performances she was named Best New Artist for Young Children by the International Children's Music Web in 1999 and her first children's recording, Under Tables, Out Back Doors, continues to earn national awards.
The vocal trio Hot Soup blends sweet, inventive harmonies on original and collected songs in a wide variety of styles and rhythms. From ballads to blues and nostalgia to novelty tunes, Hot Soup serves up a charming, high energy, and totally engaging performance.
Christina Muir, Jennifer Agner and Sue Trainor blend their stylistically diverse musical talents to cook up Hot Soup, a gratifyingly spicy vocal trio. They serve up a harmonious mix of folk and novelty songs, swing tunes, nostalgia, and topical ballads that will tickle your palette and warm your soul.
Hot Soup’s live shows "sparkle" (Sing Out magazine). Sue Trainor, Christina Muir and Jennifer Agner blend spicy, inventive harmonies on original and collected songs in a wide variety of styles and rhythms, accompanied by tasty licks on guitar, banjo and lap dulcimer. You’ll delight in a musical meal of ballads, blues, swing, retro, funny songs and more! The trio’s second album, Soup Happens, was #23 on folk music radio’s list of most-played albums last year, and audiences are calling this splashy trio’s concerts "magical."
7/1/01: Hot Soup!
