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SistaStrings talk breakout year, major moments, Henry Winkler before tonight’s Brandi Carlile show

August 5, 2022

If you keep tabs on Milwaukee music, there's a good chance you know SistaStrings. The project, which consists of classically-trained siblings Monique and Chauntee Ross, has been a fixture in local music for the...

Hear the first single from Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings’ upcoming album

Tyler Maas

June 23, 2022

In late 2020, prolific singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey and the incomparable instrumentalists in SistaStrings (a duo made up of Monique and Chauntee Ross) co-released Live At The Cafe Carpe, a live album the acco...

SistaStrings set sail on the Milwaukee River in new ‘No Wake!’ music video series

Matt Wild

October 22, 2021

Summer may be over, but that doesn't mean the memory of summer has to be over. A new music video series, No Wake!, is here to keep that warm-weather memory alive, showing various local musicians boating along t...

Watch SistaStrings perform “Lift Every Voice” at Silver City Studios

Tyler Maas

December 18, 2019

Though Monique and Chauntee Ross have been performing as long as they can remember, the dynamic duo of classically trained musicians that make up SistaStrings never had a year quite like they've experienced in ...

My First Band: SistaStrings (Monique and Chauntee Ross)

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 16, 2019

Even though SistaStrings just released its debut EP this summer, its members have (quite literally) been playing music as long as they can remember. Siblings Monique and Chauntee Ross started playing string ins...

Hear Klassik reinterpret time-tested material on his ‘American Klassiks’ live album

Tyler Maas

March 7, 2019

On November 16, a sold-out crowd packed Cactus Club to hear Milwaukee singer, rapper, producer, multi-instrumentalist and all-around visionary Klassik reinterpret time-tested spirituals, hymns, and anthems in w...

Public Domain: SistaStrings perform “Ave Maria” and “Deep River”

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 30, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

Watch SistaStrings golf at Nine Below in latest Cream City Soundcheck

Matt Wild

October 25, 2017

By their own admission, SistaStrings sisters Monique and Chauntee Ross stand out in the Milwaukee music scene. In the latest video from Cream City Soundcheck—a short video series from UWM's doc|UWM program—the ...

Watch Pharaoh Mac & DMT’s “Same Time” music video

Tyler Maas

July 31, 2015

When we last wrote about Milwaukee rapper Pharaoh Mac and his producer partner DMT, they were easing us into summer with their airy, Greatest Lakes-featuring single “Drift,” the first song from the duo’s forthc...

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