Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen will bring their splendid talents together in concert at the Phippsburg Congregational Church on Sunday, June 15, at 3:00 p.m. While each performer is well-known and loved for their decades of music making, they have spent well over a decade and a half in a joyful musical collaboration.
Cindy is a superb singer, guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. A featured guest on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion and hailed by the Boston Globe as “one of folk music’s most respected singer-songwriters… a brilliant guitarist,” Cindy has recorded numerous albums, one of which, Working on Wings to Fly, was voted one of the "Top 100 Folk Albums of the Century" by Boston radio listeners. Musical luminaries such as Patty Larkin and Dar Williams have sung her praises, and JAM magazine enthused: "Cindy's voice has a rich texture, poignant, dark, intimate: it's a voice dreams are made of. Her guitar playing is deft and lovely." Her body of contemporary original compositions has been compared in breadth, depth and quality to those of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor.
Grey is an internationally respected performer of the Irish flute and tin whistle as well as an accomplished singer and concertina, fiddle, piano and harmonium player. Grey joins the silken grace of the East Galway flute style with the driving momentum found in Irish music at large. The Washington Post has hailed him as “a gifted musician who consistently demonstrates his melodic finesse” and the New Mexico Daily says that his playing is “absolutely spellbinding.”
As composers each contributes to the tapestry of contemporary folk and world music as it flourishes in the US today. Together, they weave songs and tunes of vibrant color and rich texture. The program will include Cindy's original songs as well as distinctive settings of traditional Irish music, Scandinavian-style fiddle duets, vocal duets, guitar, Irish flute, Irish alto flute, tin whistle, concertina, harmonium, and plenty of stories that put the music into a personal context.
