Campus Circle/ Los Angeles, CA.:

"Open the door is like a surprising pop-up book filled with one-of-a-kind songs. Think along the lines of the Indigo Girls, only with more rock, less pop, and more hooky tunes......

Her intriguing rhythmic shifts within songs make this CD a golden web of melodic harmonies and instrumental variety. And she is just as inspiring and likeable on her bare-essentials songs that are stripped of extra instrumental padding.........

Ultimately, Open the Door shows that the new folk-rock hasn't lost its traditional folk innocence, but that its harder instrumental and lyrical packaging is more apt to hurl a modern audience into the waves of emotional reflection that has always characterized the genre. And that's some pretty potent stuff......."

-Kristi Cardarella (UCLA)/ Campus Circle