Marcia Cope-Hart

Most people, when they think of the local music scene, call to mind the latest Cake or Deftones knockoff. But there’s a lot more going on in this burg than what the chin-scratchers down at the True Love Coffeehouse are on about. For instance, take this confection from Marcia Cope-Hart, a Rancho Murieta-based singer who’s cut nine surprisingly fleshed-out covers of show tunes and such. While the arrangements, by Kirt Shearer, may cause problems for diabetics, Ms. Cope-Hart’s voice has this endearing vibrato like I noticed Nat King Cole’s had once on a PBS marathon after attempting to convert to Rastafarianism via the “herbal” method, and she sounds as if she’s endured more than a bit of classical training. Tunes range from chestnuts out of the Rodgers & Hammerstein and Sondheim canon to Dan Fogelberg and Barbra Streisand to Giacomo Puccini’s “O mio babbino caro,” always a favorite.