Christine Costanzo’s acoustic guitar-based songs are interpretations of her experience of life and living seen through the eyes of emotion. If emotions were the sea, her words and music would be the creatures that live therein.

Originally from a small Ohio college town embedded in the Appalachian foothills, Christine evokes a sense of place at once lost and yet inextricably bound to experience. The Appalachians crop up again and again on her first full length CD, “Big Sky”. From the county road in the opener “Appalachian Sky” where she’s “still goin’ 55” to “those hills where we first started” in “Send Me Back to Ohio”, this is the place of youth and innocence. In “Jesus Was A Kind Man”, “those eastern woods” become the place of redemption “where all our goodness survives” and in “Huck Finn” this landscape is transformed into the departure point for adventure with the exclamation “I’ll hop the Ohio, the Missouri will take you far/ we’ll meet up and head out to the sea!”

Now residing in Madison, WI, Christine came to music by way of poetry. She began performing in the Madison and Chicago areas and released a three song EP in 2002. The self-produced “Big Sky” contains songs spanning the past seven years. Very few take the plunge and are willing to be so candid in expressing to others what they have discovered. Christine does so with a folk-rock “Cohenesque” flavor. Her debut CD leaves no doubt.