In the mid-1990s in New York City, the Henderson sisters created Antigone Rising and started playing gigs, initially in Bleecker Street venues including The Back Fence, Cafe Figaro and The Bitter End with Jen Zielenbach on bass and Dena Tauriello on drums.
Antigone | Order of the Rising Sun | Easter Rising | Antigone (Sophocles) | Hannibal Rising | 3 Feet High and Rising | 2011 AFL Rising Star | The House of the Rising Sun | Rising Sun | AFL Rising Star | Rising Damp | Hannibal Rising (film) | Red Storm Rising | Newport Rising | Fenian Rising | 2010 AFL Rising Star | Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force | Rising Sun, Maryland | Rising Stars of Manga | Jacobite rising of 1745 | Jacobite rising of 1715 | Castle Rising | Antigone Plantagenet | 2012 AFL Rising Star | 2000 AFL Rising Star | 1995 AFL Rising Star | 1994 AFL Rising Star | Vengeance Rising | Rising Star | Rising of the North |
In 2003, Antigone Rising signed a major label record deal with Jason Flom at Lava Records/Atlantic Records and on May 11, 2005 their major label debut From the Ground Up was released in conjunction with Starbucks Hear Music label.