Antara & Delilah create a hopeful vision of the world they want through their music. For nine years, Southern California audiences have watched the emergence of their determined optimism, their strength of harmony, their bond as performers, and the power of their music to reach out to their audiences. Sometimes as down-home as a campfire sing-along, their music can build to fiery anthems about love and hope for a peaceful world. With three CDs, hundreds of shows, and many miles of touring under their belts, Antara & Delilah are making their mark on the Americana music scene.

Antara & Delilah met at a songwriter's workshop in 1997. The facilitator, Jim Messina (Poco, Buffalo Springfield, Loggins & Messina) suggested their voices would sound good together. It was after that workshop when they began to write and perform together in a Santa Barbara coffee house. And it was here they discovered their sound - flavors of folk, bluegrass and pop tied together with bold vocal harmony.

Their grrrls-next-door appeal, combined with compelling harmonies, guitar, mandolin and percussion have brought Antara & Delilah recognition and opportunities in their nine years of performing and writing together. They were voted Favorite Local Band five years in a row by the Santa Barbara News-Press readership and runner-up for Best Unsigned Band by the Independent's Best Of poll. Three of their songs from their second CD From Here have been used by SONY on the hit TV series Party of Five and Joan of Arcadia DVD release.

For the past three year Antara & Delilah have joined Messina as the Jim Messina Acoustic Trio, and toured throughout the U.S.

Some performance highlights include joining Jackson Browne on stage at the Avila Beach Music Festival, the main stage at Santa Barbara's Fiesta, and a benefit for La Conchita mudslide victims with Kenny Loggins, Jackson Browne and Michael McDonald.

The duo bring together two lifetimes of music. Antara, who grew up in Southern California and Flagstaff, Arizona draws songwriting inspiration from the broad stretches of dessert between the two locations as well as from time living and learning guitar in Costa Rica. Delilah, a Minnesotan transplanted to California (via the East Coast), has been singing harmonies and playing guitar from her earliest memory.

Making music that can inspire change in the world is what Antara & Delilah do. Their songs We'll Have Peace, In Another Land, Kindness and Hold On convey a hopeful urgency that a peaceful world is possible.They are active in their community performing events to promote the valuable work of organizations such the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara Women's Political Committee, the Community Environmental Council, California AIDS Ride, the Glendon Association and the Environmental Defense Center.

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