The patio of the Cultural Arts Center at the pier will be the setting for a wonderful evening of music by popular entertainer, Elizabeth Roth. This concert is being offered by the St Johns Cultural Council and donations are gratefully accepted. Funds are used to provide after-school arts programs in schools and other locations around the county. Refreshments will be available.

Elizabeth Roth is one of the best known solo acoustic musicians in North Florida. A versatile, interpretive performer with an impressive finger style guitar technique and a distinctive clear and strong voice,  Roth is very much in demand, performing well over 200 engagements each year. Her repertoire is extensive and includes over 500 tunes by over 300 different artists. She enjoys taking audience requests and doesn't believe that it somehow isn't "artistic" to perform popular music.

The music of Elizabeth Roth is hard to categorize. Her many influences include folk singers from the 60s' to the present, acoustic folk-rock, rock & roll, and blues - with just a little country mixed in.

Her studies in classical music are also in evidence, lending definition and a polished sound. Interestingly, these different elements fuse together quite naturally.

She sings songs by many female vocal artists, but also performs the material of male singers and rock acts that few women would choose to cover. Vocally, Roth is most often likened to Phoebe Snow, Janis Joplin, Carly Simon, Joan Baez and Mary Chapin-Carpenter - artists who don't necessarily sound anything like each other!  But her voice, and her style.... are uniquely her own.

She also composes and performs her own original material. Her most recent album entitled "like the david" was released in April 2003 and was awarded "Cd of the Year From a Solo Act" from Songwriter's Showcases of America. It was also voted "Best Local Cd of 2003" in the Jacksonville Folio Magazine "Best of Jax" reader's poll.

Self taught in music since the age of 13, Roth went on to pursue formal training in both classical guitar and classical voice as a music major at Stetson University in Deland where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in music (guitar). She is on the music faculty at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind and is adjunct instructor of classical guitar at St. Augustine High School. 

Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, Roth moved to St Augustine in 1985 where she now resides with her husband and their two sons.