Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen

{{Short description|American musical duo}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP primary sources|date=January 2008}} {{no footnotes|date=November 2018}} }}

'''Steve Gillette''' (born 1942) and '''Cindy Mangsen''' (born 1950) are American folk musicians and singer-songwriters who have been traveling, performing and recording together since their marriage in 1989.<ref>{{cite news |title=Duo to perform traditional folk music in Bennington |url=https://www.benningtonbanner.com/arts_and_culture/duo-to-perform-traditional-folk-music-in-bennington/article_22701ab9-c53a-5f80-bdfb-a9bc510ed2b4.html |access-date=5 March 2023 |work=[[Bennington Banner]] |date=February 19, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ridgeway |first1=Leslie |title=Settling on the good life |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92149584/steve-gillette/ |access-date=5 March 2023 |work=[[North County Times]] |date=14 March 1997 |pages=88}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Callender |first1=Jennifer |title=A meeting of the Twain |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92149343/steve-gillette/ |access-date=5 March 2023 |work=[[Bennington Banner]] |date=29 March 2003 |pages=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Folk legend duo makes appearance in St. George |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120211288/folk-legend-duo-makes-appearance-in-st/ |access-date=5 March 2023 |work=[[The Daily Spectrum]] |date=24 March 2000 |location=St. George, Utah |pages=52}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=McElhiney |first1=Brian |title=Bennington's own Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen sing their stories |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120211305/benningtons-own-steve-gillette-and/ |work=[[Bennington Banner]] |date=29 December 2007 |pages=24}}</ref>

Their album ''Live In Concert'', recorded at [[The Ark (folk venue)|The Ark]] in [[Ann Arbor]] in 1991, is available from their own company, Compass Rose Music. A second duet album, ''The Light Of The Day'', was named Top Folk Album of 1996 by Rich Warren (WFMT) and Matt Watroba (WDET). Their third duet recording, ''A Sense Of Place'', was released on Redwing Music in 2001. Their 2006 duet CD is called ''Being There'' (Compass Rose, 2006). In January, 2012, they released their latest duet album ''Home by Dark'' (Compass Rose, 2012).

Steve and Cindy also collaborated with Anne Hills and Michael Smith on a quartet recording of story-songs, ''Fourtold'' (Appleseed Records, 2003). ''The Ways Of The World'' (Compass Rose, 1992), a recording of 12 original songs produced by Jim Rooney, features studio back-up by [[Stuart Duncan]], Mark Howard, [[Roy Huskey, Jr.]] and Mark Schatz. Steve's latest solo recording is ''Texas And Tennessee'' (Redwing Music), with Charles Cochran, Mark Graham, Mark Schatz, [[Pete Sutherland]], Pete Wasner and others. The album was named one of 1998's Top Ten Folk Albums by [[Tower Records]]' ''Pulse Magazine''.

Since [[Ian and Sylvia]] first recorded [[Darcy Farrow]] in 1965, Steve's songs have been sung by dozens of major artists including [[Tony Rice]], [[The Stone Poneys]], [[Linda Ronstadt]], [[Garth Brooks]], [[John Denver]], [[Nanci Griffith]], [[Waylon Jennings]], [[Iain Matthews]], [[Anne Murray]], [[Josh Ritter]], [[Kenny Rogers]], [[Spanky and Our Gang]], [[Don Williams]] and [[Tammy Wynette]].

== Discography == 1991 ''Live in Concert''<br> 1996 ''The Light of the Day''<br> 2001 ''A Sense of Place''<br> 2006 ''Being There''<br> 2012 ''Home by Dark''

==References==  {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== * [https://www.compassrosemusic.com/ Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen - Official homepage]

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