Maria Sebastian has opened for dozens of national acts and has recorded with many of their members. She has earned 12 Buffalo / Nightlife Music Awards, 1 People’s Choice Award, and 1 Buffalo Spree Album of the Year Award for Yellow Envelope, 2009, and she has had music placed in television and film. She performs regularly in Buffalo and plays select northeast venues as an acoustic singer/songwriter—most recently opening for Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, who has chosen her to continue as an opening act. She has also joined 10,000 Maniacs as a backing vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and once as an opening act. Maria’s latest CD, Yellow Envelope, has earned her praise among all it has been passed on to, including The Hudson Valley’s Freeman Online (“Sebastian has a great record on her hands here.”) The next disc is in the works for an expected 2011 release and will feature songs for inspiring and quirky figures including Maya Angelou, Malcolm X, Comic Icon Harvey Pekar, Muhammad Ali, and others.