On Wednesday, May 28, another Roslyn native will return home to give a performance at the Bryant Library.

On that date, Sheri Miller will give an acoustic performance at the library. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Born in a musical household in Roslyn, Sheri Miller grew up listening to her mother, an opera singer belt out beautiful arias, while playing classical piano. Sheri's uncle, an accomplished recording engineer in Los Angeles, educated Sheri with his hand-made mix tapes of Pink Floyd, Hungarian Gypsy Music, Diamanda Galas and Etta James. Sheri began playing piano at an early age, but rebelled by composing her own wild and original songs. "I remember playing this one song I had made up on the piano, 'The Lost Tribe,' about buffalo, sunsets and gypsy wandering, so many times my mother almost killed me," Sheri recalled.

While at the University of Pennsylvania studying literature and poetry, Sheri began to sing with a local Philly blues band, while secretly writing her own songs. After college, Sheri moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, and made steady rounds at local open mics like The Raven, while practicing for hours in her basement apartment. She immersed herself in the poetry of Charles Bukowski, O. Henri, Marcel Proust, Margaret Atwood and Maya Angelou. She also discovered Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, Etta James, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding and Billie Holiday.

Sheri's Bryant Library performance comes on the heels of the release of her debut CD, Mantra, an original production that has received advance praise both here and abroad. Mark Fogarty of brokeruniverse.com calls the EP, "Riveting" and "daring" and Ms. Miller a "young, talented performer." Street Voice, a music magazine from The United Kingdom adds: "So much talent...I'm surprised no label has picked up on her sound."

In recent months, Sheri has celebrated the release of the CD with two live shows, one held at The Living Room nightclub in Manhattan and the other in Los Angeles at The Hotel Café. Both performances were highly successful with Sheri and her band playing to enthusiastic audiences.

The famous New York venue was packed to the back curtain for the Big Apple launch party of Mantra. Ten days later, the West Coast got the same news at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles.

For Sheri, the EP is the culmination of years of studying classic popular songs from Cole Porter to Coldplay, playing hundreds of shows in whiskey bars, coffeeshops, rock clubs and larger music theaters, until a naturalness and ease of delivery was won. The result that has emerged is Sheri's own musical vocabulary.

Those interested in purchasing Sheri's "Mantra" CD can go to: cdbaby.com/cd/sherimiller, iTunes or Amazon.com. They can also visit www.sherimiller.com or myspace.com/sherimiller to buy a CD or for more info.