Nerissa & Katryna Nields

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Nerissa and Katryna Nields are the sisters and singers from the folkband the Nields. In the summer of 1998, Nerissa and Katryna were asked to play Lilith Fair, but leave the boys at home. The performance was a success, and the sisters decided to do some shows on their own. This duo configuration, which Dar Williams jokingly dubbed "the Probe effect" (a term familiar to followers of Star Trek) allowed Nerissa and Katryna to travel to places in the country (especially the West Coast) that the full band hadn't been able to get to as often as their usual haunts in the East. Within a year, the duo was opening for Cry Cry Cry, doing a tour of Alaska, playing the Newport Folk Festival and becoming a bona fide act of its own. Katryna joined Nerissa in the studio in the fall of 2001 to record their first record as a duo. Love and China was produced and engineered by Dave Chalfant (husband of Katryna and member of the Nields). Love and China was released in the spring of 2002 on Zoë, and Nerissa and Katryna spent much of the next year on the road touring in support of it. Also in 2002, Nerissa was approached by Scholastic to write a young adult novel, Plastic Angel, based on the song "This Town Is Wrong" (from If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now). She had already been at work on a semi-autobiographical novel about a touring band, and jumped at this chance. Since the protagonist of Plastic Angel is a songwriter, it naturally follows that a CD should accompany the book. Nerissa and Ka

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Sister Holler

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Love and China

This Town Is Wrong

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Wonderland: A Winter Solstice Celebration

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Beatles Tribute - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 7/25/2008

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FrFF 7-26-03

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Songs for Amelia

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Wonderland

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Philadelphia Folk Festival 40th Anniversary [Disc 3]

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February 2008 Project

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Wonderland - A Winter Solstice Celebration

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Philadelphia Folk Festival - 40th Anniversary (Disc 3)

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