Girlyman: “Really good, really unexpected, and really different.”

| January 22, 2010 

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Girlyman

Stephanie Richardson

Imagine a modern-day Peter, Paul & Mary, only edgier…and with a quirky sense of humor, and you get the band Girlyman. Their songs are described as leading edge three-part harmony folk-pop. One review summed up their music in just seven words, “Really good, really unexpected, and really different.” As Ty Greenstein (center of photo) tells WBHM’s Michael Krall, the seeds for Girlyman were planted when her second grade teacher sat her next to future bandmate Doris Muramatsu…

 

 

 

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