folk, pop and Americana sounds. Playing on the album are Sonia (songwriter, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, piano), Elaine Romanelli (background vocals and organ), Don Conoscenti (electric guitar), Don Kerce (Bass), Dylan Visvikis (background vocals, piano), Helen Hausmann (violins, spoons), Jeff Gilkinson (cello), Laura Cerulli (percussion vocals), and Mike Poole (piano). Recorded in Nashville at the Brown Cow, from this CD was borne a successful 18-city tour with the full disappear fear band. SONiA's latest solo album is By My Silence. Released in late 2018, it reflects her mostly positive experience touring in Europe, but also, after being re-routed on her tour by right-wing nationalist marches, renews her commitment to sing out against anti-semitism. Opening the album is A Voice for Nudem Durak, in support of a young woman jailed in Turkey on a 19.5 years sentence for singing in her native Kurdish language. Rutstein's 2006 Middle East tour led to the founding of Guitars for Peace, a non-profit foundation that delivers instruments to children in impoverished or war-torn nations. Soundtrack appearances Sonia's songs are featured in the teen movie Frog and Wombat and in the independent film Wave Babes. Sonia also scored the entire soundtrack for Dave Marshall's documentary film Autumn's Harvest. Released for first time in 2018 on Terror Vision Records was Sonia's score for Igor and the Lunatics, a 1985 horror film. Most of the soundtrack was recorded with her band at the time, Exhibit A. The musical "small house no secrets" (composer Sonia Rutstein) was presented in march 2019 in Baltimore. The songs were available on the CD "small house no secrets – composer´s cut" by SONiA disappear fear Awards and nominations Rutstein won the award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 1999 for Almost Chocolate and her Me, Too won for Best Acoustic Album in 2001. The band's eponymous album won the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Award for Best Album in 1994. Both No Bomb Is Smart and Tango garnered multiple Grammy Award nominations for Rutstein in the pop and folk categories. In 2002, the Santa Cruz Guitar Company created its "SONiA" model guitar in Rutstein's honor. Discography Disappear Fear Echo My Call (1988) Deep Soul Diver (1990) Disappear Fear (1994) Live at the Bottom Line (1994) Seed in the Sahara (1996) Get Your Phil (2011) Broken Film (2013) SONiA Almost Chocolate (1998) Me, Too (1999) Live at the Down