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If you are interested in producing a performance by Grey Larsen, please send him an email or call him at (812) 334-9901.

 

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.