Lowdermilk

Attaching the adjective "best" on any creative artist is always a foolish undertaking, but if Lowdermilk and Kerrigan aren't the best young songwriting team currently at work in New York (with an eye to the world), they're right up there with other candidates -- as is implied by the many awards they've already gathered (the 2006 Jonathan Larson Award, a Richard Rodgers Award, Kerrigan's 2009 Kleban Award for Most Promising Librettist.)

Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Curiously, Kerrigan and Lowdermilk aren't in the musical-comedy biz to see their ditties favored by the Broadway-loving cabaret entertainers.

Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Curiously, Kerrigan and Lowdermilk aren't in the musical-comedy biz to see their ditties favored by the Broadway-loving cabaret entertainers.

David Finkle: Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Perhaps Kerrigan and Lowdermilk will get through to the larger public soon, possibly not -- for the simple reason that they devote their tandem time to writing scores for musicals.

Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Kerrigan and Lowdermilk -- who very noticeably only include rhymes occasionally -- may have to wait some time before that sort of thing clicks for them.

Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Perhaps Kerrigan and Lowdermilk will get through to the larger public soon, possibly not -- for the simple reason that they devote their tandem time to writing scores for musicals.

David Finkle: Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Attaching the adjective "best" on any creative artist is always a foolish undertaking, but if Lowdermilk and Kerrigan aren't the best young songwriting team currently at work in New York (with an eye to the world), they're right up there with other candidates -- as is implied by the many awards they've already gathered (the 2006 Jonathan Larson Award, a Richard Rodgers Award, Kerrigan's 2009 Kleban Award for Most Promising Librettist.)

David Finkle: Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Kerrigan and Lowdermilk -- who very noticeably only include rhymes occasionally -- may have to wait some time before that sort of thing clicks for them.

David Finkle: Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Kerrigan, who played the violin on many of the arrangements, isn't ground-breaking in centering her lyrics on relationships and often on childhood memories and/or children's attitudes, but she probes the subjects deeply and often at length, which requires the under-the-rock-influence Lowdermilk to keep the melodic notions flowing.

David Finkle: Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

Kerrigan, who played the violin on many of the arrangements, isn't ground-breaking in centering her lyrics on relationships and often on childhood memories and/or children's attitudes, but she probes the subjects deeply and often at length, which requires the under-the-rock-influence Lowdermilk to keep the melodic notions flowing.

Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010