Gordon Meyer

Gordon Meyer was drawn to music at an early age while growing up in Wisconsin.  With a grandfather folksinger and a mother trained in classical vocal music at Julliard in New York, Gordon took to music at an early age.  When the folk music craze of the fifties hit, he bought his first guitar and taught himself to play.  He and his brothers performed widely in Wisconsin, forming several ensembles with high school and college friends, but Gordon chose a career teaching emotionally and behaviorally challenged children. During his teaching career he became involved in a cappella singing and founded The Fairlanes, an a cappella doo-wop quartet in 1991.  Then, in 2005 Gordon quit teaching and began to seriously write and perform his own songs.

He met Sandy Cadman while the two were section leaders in a Minneapolis church and together they formed BlueStratum.  

Sandy Cadman

Sandy Cadman’s musical roots began at a tender age, experimenting first with the violin, then piano, guitar, flute and finally settling on voice.  She spent several years as a young apprentice of the San Gabriel Civic Light Opera in Southern California before pursuing an undergraduate degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

After graduating from the Conservatory, Sandy sang professionally with the San Francisco Chamber Singers for six seasons and was a featured soprano soloist with numerous Bay Area early music ensembles.

She relocated to the Twin Cities from the west coast in 2003.  In the Twin Cities she sang for several seasons with VocalEssence and was briefly employed as a chorister by the historic Wesley United Methodist Church in Minneapolis, where she met Gordon Meyer in 2007. 

Upon his invitation, she agreed to vocally accompany Gordon on several original songs that he had written. She also shared with him several of her own compositions.

Since then, the two have begun to build a repertoire of new music with influences from Rock n’ Roll and blues to folk.