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Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen
Represented
by The Charisma Artist Agency.
Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen, each well-known
and loved for their individual musical work, come together in concert to
provide an evening of shared tunes and songs. Grey is one of America's
finest players of the Irish flute and tin whistle, as well as an accomplished
singer and concertina, fiddle, piano and harmonium player, and Cindy is a
wonderful singer, guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Grey's
playing has been called "positively
spellbinding" (The New Mexico Daily, Albuquerque, NM) and "exceptionally
exceptional" (The Spectator, Raleigh-Durham, NC), while Scott Alarik
of The Boston Globe calls Kallet "...one of folk music's most respected
songwriters... provocative, heartwise, and original ...a brilliant guitarist...
" Together they craft fresh new arrangements of traditional Irish music,
Cindy's own sparkling original songs, Scandinavian fiddle duets, and old-time
fiddle and guitar tunes from the great Indiana fiddler Joe Dawson. There
is plenty of variety and breadth of musical territory here, all deeply rooted
in folk traditions and informed by the baroque and classical counterpoint
in which both Cindy and Grey, coincidentally, were immersed while growing
up. Included are vocal duets, guitar, Irish flute, Irish alto flute, tin
whistle, concertina, harmonium, and duet fiddling, and plenty of stories
that put the music into a personal context. For more on Cindy Kallet, click
here.
Grey Larsen Solo
Grey is most well-known as one of America's finest players and exponents
of the Irish flute. He has been playing traditional Irish music for over 30
years, having learned the art largely from Irish immigrants in his native
Ohio. His lyrical and soulful flute playing is renowned throughout the United
States and beyond. His flute playing is the centerpiece of his solo concerts,
along with Irish music played on the tin whistle and anglo concertina.
Grey is also a fine fiddler and has devoted a great deal of his musical life
to the old-time fiddle music of his native southern midwest, which he likes
to call "the northern fringe of Appalachia." Grey is one of the
only people expert in playing and presenting the unique and lovely crooked-tune
repertoire of 77-year-old southern Indiana fiddler Joe Dawson.
He loves to share stories about his musical mentors like Joe and Irishmen
Michael Kennedy, Tom Byrne and Tom McCaffrey, as well as music and experience
that he has gathered on his recent trips to Ireland. Expect to hear a few
songs, too, traditional ones from the midwest as well as a few of Grey's favorites
from his songwriting friends.
Grey has performed and recorded widely since the mid 1970s with Malcolm Dalglish,
Metamora (Grey, Malcolm, and Pete Sutherland), André Marchand, Paddy
League and many others.
* Grey is available for concerts, festivals, workshops and house concerts
Grey Larsen & Paddy League
Grey made two Irish music CDs (The Green House and Dark of the Moon) with Paddy League in 2001 and 2003. After a hiatus, during which Paddy began an in-depth exploration of his Greek fmaily roots and traditioanl Greek music, Grey and Paddy are back at it with their performances of soulful traditional Irish music performed on Irish flute, Irish alto flute, tin whistle, concertina, harmonium, guitar and bodhrán (traditional Irish drum). To read reviews of their CDs, please click here.
Grey Larsen & Andre Marchand
Grey recorded The
Orange Tree with André Marchand in 1993. In July 2004 Grey
and André released their long-awaited follow-up, Les
Marionnettes. Thousands know André from his years with La
Bottine Souriante and his current a cappella French Canadian male vocal
group, Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer.
*Grey and André are available once again for concerts, festivals
and workshops.
Grey Larsen & Kevin Crehan
Grey has performs with Irish fiddler, sean-nos singer, tin whistle
player Kevin Crehan.
Kevin is the grandson of the renowned and beloved Junior Crehan of County
Clare. Kevin received his music directly from Junior and from his father Tony
Crehan.
* Grey and Kevin are available for concerts, festivals and workshops
on a limited basis.
They present the music as it was played generations ago, the way they have learned it first-hand from their elder mentors, such as Junior Crehan, Bobby Casey, and Michael Kennedy. Here melody is king. Melody is set free and is complete unto itself, full of rhythmic impulse, lyrical depth and eloquence. What little accompaniment Grey and Kevin employ (with Grey's concertina and harmonium - a very small hand-pumped reed organ) is spare and open. This is how the music lived and evolved for centuries, but, ironically, modern audiences rarely have the chance to experience it this way. A concert with Grey and Kevin is a revelation to many.
Together Grey and Kevin exemplify the the art of unison playing. Joyfully and informally, they share with their audience stories of the music and the people who have given it life for them, imparting the music a living context of personalities, imagery and history . Many come away from a Grey Larsen and Kevin Crehan concert with an enriched understanding of the cradle of traditional Irish culture, and with a wealth of soaring, dancing melodies.
Grey Larsen & Keith Murphy
Grey also performs with Keith Murphy, a fine singer, guitarist, mandolinist and foot-percussionist from Newfoundland, now living in Vermont. Keith performs with the trio Nightingale. Grey produced and engineered their fine CD, Sometimes When the Moon Is High.