It's an exciting time for me! Here's the latest news:
· One-Hour Radio Interview on WFIU's "Profiles" this Sunday, Oct. 28, 7-8pm.
· New CD with Cindy Kallet, "Cross the Water", coming in mid-November.
· CD release concert in Bloomington, Indiana, Friday Nov. 16th.
· New website: http://www.kalletlarsen.com .
One-Hour Radio Interview this Sunday, Oct. 28, 7-8pm.
I will be the featured guest this Sunday evening on WFIU's acclaimed "Profiles" program. Host Yael Ksander and I explore many musical topics in depth. It is quite a privilege to be part of this series. I hope you can tune in.
WFIU, member-supported public radio in Bloomington, Indiana, broadcasts from Indiana University at 103.7 FM. You can also listen in Columbus, Indiana, at 100.7, in Kokomo, Indiana at 106.1, in Terre Haute, Indiana, at 95.1, in French-Lick/West Baden, Indiana, at 101.7, and in Greensburg, Indiana, at 98.9.
By November 1st or so the program will be archived on-line, at http://wfiu.org/profiles.htm . So if you miss the live broadcast you can listen later on-line.
New CD with Cindy Kallet coming in mid-November!
My debut CD with Cindy Kallet, "Cross the Water", is being manufactured as we speak. It will be ready in mid-November, and I'll be in touch with you again as soon as it is ready for purchase and download.
CD release concert in Bloomington, Indiana, Friday Nov. 16th.
Cindy and I will celebrate the release of "Cross the Water" with a concert in Bloomington, IN. This will be a benefit for Bloomington's wonderful community radio station, WFHB, to raise funds for their new endowment fund. I hope you can come share the music, fresh-baked goodies, and good cheer, and support a cherished community resource.
Here are the details:
Friday, November 16
8:00 PM. Doors open at 7:30
Tickets $10.00, $6.00 for children 12 and younger
Unitarian-Universalist Church
2120 North Fee Lane
Bloomington, IN 47408
For further info, email grey@greylarsen.com.
Soon tickets will be available at http://www.bloomingtonarts.info . This is a way to get advance tickets and to pay by credit card.
New website: www.kalletlarsen.com .
Cindy and I have recently launched our new website: http://www.kalletlarsen.com . Soon our new CD will be available there. Please check out the site, and watch for it to grow in the coming weeks and months.
If you are not yet familiar with Cindy Kallet and with our duo, Cindy is a great singer, guitarist and composer. We are having a wonderful time performing together. If you'd like to hear some of our music and find out more about us, please go to:
Would you like to see us come to your town? Do you have a favorite local venue, or would you like to host a house concert? If so, please contact our very friendly booking agent, Ian MacDonald, at The Charisma Artist Agency, and we'll get the ball rolling. You can email Ian at info@charismaartist.com or call him at (877) 534-8021.
"Grey Larsen and Cindy Kallet, two masterful musicians and music creators have come together in a truly magical live concert collaboration where unbelievably, the whole is actually greater than the sum of the two parts. I witnessed this first hand at a house (barn) concert in Prince Edward Island. The musicians' obvious warmth and respect for one another overflowed and touched us all. The music, old and new, was full of nuance and grace. It deeply touched the essential humaness in all who were present as evidenced by all the great beaming smiles and buckets of enthusiastic applause. Highly recommended for anyone seeking a special experience." - Grady Poe
"Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen are exquisite musicians and gentle souls, both of which make for a wonderful evening of music. The gifts of their writing, arranging, and exceptional instrumental talents combine with a genuine warmth and charm that leaves an audience walking away smiling, uplifted, and humming a tune." - Nan Collie
"We were delighted to host a house concert featuring Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen in Maine this past spring. It was a splendid afternoon and the music that was made that day is fondly remembered by the sixty people that filled our living room...Cindy and Grey make a wonderfully versatile and harmonious combination and we look forward to the first recording they will make together (we hope it's not too far off in the future). Cindy...joined Grey in some duets on the fiddle - and these numbers were unexpected delights. If you do not know their music, please get to know it. And do yourself - and your friends - a favor by bringing them to your area for a concert. Their music is very special."
- Wayne Beach
CINDY KALLET & GREY LARSEN - A Description of the Duo
Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen, each well-known and loved for their decades of music making, have joined musical forces. Cindy is a superb singer, guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. 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. As composers each has contributed to the unique tapestry of contemporary folk and world music as it exists and flourishes in America today. Together, they weave songs and tunes of vibrant color and rich texture.
Virtuoso Irish fiddler and educator Séamus Connolly has said of Grey that he is "one of the few players who has mastered an older style of playing which has been heard in East County Galway, Ireland. ... It is refreshing and gratifying to hear such a true understanding of the soul of traditional Irish music in the playing of an American-born musician."
The duo's repertoire includes Cindy's sparkling original songs, distinctive settings of traditional Irish music, Scandinavian fiddle duets, old-time fiddle and guitar tunes from southern Indiana, and new music that Cindy and Grey are inventing together. There is plenty of variety and breadth of musical territory here, all deeply rooted in
folk traditions, and interwoven with the renaissance and baroque 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.
Of Cindy, Scott Alarik of The Boston Globe writes, "A contender for New England's most unheralded folk star, Maine songwriter Kallet uses naturalistic landscapes to explore the human experience, in ways that feel both personal and timeless. A gorgeous guitarist, she weaves deft countermelodic motion into her gentle melodies, like soft breezes stirring a still forest." And, "...one of folk music's most respected songwriters... provocative, heartwise, and original ...a brilliant guitarist."
Mike Joyce of the Washington Post calls Grey "... a gifted multi-instrumentalist who consistently demonstrates his melodic finesse," while The New Mexico Daily describes his playing as "positively spellbinding".
Cindy Kallet has been writing music and playing the guitar since she was eleven years old, and has performed throughout the US for more than thirty years. She is a gifted songwriter, singer and guitarist with five solo albums to her credit. In the twenty-five years since the release of her first album, Cindy has built a devoted audience of all ages and from all walks of life. Her fans find many reasons to love her music, from her deep and intricate guitar playing to her clear and heartfelt singing to her honest and intelligent songwriting to her quietly outrageous humor. Her passion for folk tradition is deeply personal and challenges listeners to draw their own connections with the music.
Grey Larsen discovered Irish traditional music in the early '70s and pursues it with devotion to this day. Regarded as one of America's leading Irish flute players, Grey joins the silken grace of the East Galway flute style with the driving momentum found in Irish music at large. While he is best know for Irish music, Grey plays half a dozen instruments and is at home in several musical styles. He is a fine fiddler and has devoted a great deal of his musical life to the old-time fiddle music of his native southern Midwest, situated in the northern fringe of the Appalachian cultural region. In particular, Grey delights in sharing the lovely crooked-tune repertoire of southern
Indiana fiddler Joe Dawson, and loves to tell stories about his musical mentors like Joe and Irishmen Michael Kennedy, Tom Byrne and Tom McCaffrey.
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Grey Larsen new CD, radio program
Grey Larsen new CD, radio program
Dear Friends,
It's an exciting time for me! Here's the latest news:
· One-Hour Radio Interview on WFIU's "Profiles" this Sunday, Oct. 28, 7-8pm.
· New CD with Cindy Kallet, "Cross the Water", coming in mid-November.
· CD release concert in Bloomington, Indiana, Friday Nov. 16th.
· New website: http://www.kalletlarsen.com .
One-Hour Radio Interview this Sunday, Oct. 28, 7-8pm.
I will be the featured guest this Sunday evening on WFIU's acclaimed "Profiles" program. Host Yael Ksander and I explore many musical topics in depth. It is quite a privilege to be part of this series. I hope you can tune in.
WFIU, member-supported public radio in Bloomington, Indiana, broadcasts from Indiana University at 103.7 FM. You can also listen in Columbus, Indiana, at 100.7, in Kokomo, Indiana at 106.1, in Terre Haute, Indiana, at 95.1, in French-Lick/West Baden, Indiana, at 101.7, and in Greensburg, Indiana, at 98.9.
And you can listen live on-line at http://www.indiana.edu/~wfiu/listen.htm .
By November 1st or so the program will be archived on-line, at http://wfiu.org/profiles.htm . So if you miss the live broadcast you can listen later on-line.
New CD with Cindy Kallet coming in mid-November!
My debut CD with Cindy Kallet, "Cross the Water", is being manufactured as we speak. It will be ready in mid-November, and I'll be in touch with you again as soon as it is ready for purchase and download.
CD release concert in Bloomington, Indiana, Friday Nov. 16th.
Cindy and I will celebrate the release of "Cross the Water" with a concert in Bloomington, IN. This will be a benefit for Bloomington's wonderful community radio station, WFHB, to raise funds for their new endowment fund. I hope you can come share the music, fresh-baked goodies, and good cheer, and support a cherished community resource.
Here are the details:
Friday, November 16
8:00 PM. Doors open at 7:30
Tickets $10.00, $6.00 for children 12 and younger
Unitarian-Universalist Church
2120 North Fee Lane
Bloomington, IN 47408
For further info, email grey@greylarsen.com.
Soon tickets will be available at http://www.bloomingtonarts.info . This is a way to get advance tickets and to pay by credit card.
New website: www.kalletlarsen.com .
Cindy and I have recently launched our new website: http://www.kalletlarsen.com . Soon our new CD will be available there. Please check out the site, and watch for it to grow in the coming weeks and months.
We each have our own websites as well:
http://www.greylarsen.com
http://www.cindykallet.com
Never heard of our duo?
If you are not yet familiar with Cindy Kallet and with our duo, Cindy is a great singer, guitarist and composer. We are having a wonderful time performing together. If you'd like to hear some of our music and find out more about us, please go to:
http://www.charismaartist.com/artist_info.aspx?id=7
or to our new website:
http://www.kalletlarsen.com
Would you like to see us come to your town? Do you have a favorite local venue, or would you like to host a house concert? If so, please contact our very friendly booking agent, Ian MacDonald, at The Charisma Artist Agency, and we'll get the ball rolling. You can email Ian at info@charismaartist.com or call him at (877) 534-8021.
Happy fall to you,
Grey
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REVIEWS OF CINDY KALLET & GREY LARSEN:
"Grey Larsen and Cindy Kallet, two masterful musicians and music creators have come together in a truly magical live concert collaboration where unbelievably, the whole is actually greater than the sum of the two parts. I witnessed this first hand at a house (barn) concert in Prince Edward Island. The musicians' obvious warmth and respect for one another overflowed and touched us all. The music, old and new, was full of nuance and grace. It deeply touched the essential humaness in all who were present as evidenced by all the great beaming smiles and buckets of enthusiastic applause. Highly recommended for anyone seeking a special experience." - Grady Poe
"Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen are exquisite musicians and gentle souls, both of which make for a wonderful evening of music. The gifts of their writing, arranging, and exceptional instrumental talents combine with a genuine warmth and charm that leaves an audience walking away smiling, uplifted, and humming a tune." - Nan Collie
"We were delighted to host a house concert featuring Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen in Maine this past spring. It was a splendid afternoon and the music that was made that day is fondly remembered by the sixty people that filled our living room...Cindy and Grey make a wonderfully versatile and harmonious combination and we look forward to the first recording they will make together (we hope it's not too far off in the future). Cindy...joined Grey in some duets on the fiddle - and these numbers were unexpected delights. If you do not know their music, please get to know it. And do yourself - and your friends - a favor by bringing them to your area for a concert. Their music is very special."
- Wayne Beach
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CINDY KALLET & GREY LARSEN - A Description of the Duo
Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen, each well-known and loved for their decades of music making, have joined musical forces. Cindy is a superb singer, guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. 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. As composers each has contributed to the unique tapestry of contemporary folk and world music as it exists and flourishes in America today. Together, they weave songs and tunes of vibrant color and rich texture.
Virtuoso Irish fiddler and educator Séamus Connolly has said of Grey that he is "one of the few players who has mastered an older style of playing which has been heard in East County Galway, Ireland. ... It is refreshing and gratifying to hear such a true understanding of the soul of traditional Irish music in the playing of an American-born musician."
The duo's repertoire includes Cindy's sparkling original songs, distinctive settings of traditional Irish music, Scandinavian fiddle duets, old-time fiddle and guitar tunes from southern Indiana, and new music that Cindy and Grey are inventing together. There is plenty of variety and breadth of musical territory here, all deeply rooted in
folk traditions, and interwoven with the renaissance and baroque 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.
Of Cindy, Scott Alarik of The Boston Globe writes, "A contender for New England's most unheralded folk star, Maine songwriter Kallet uses naturalistic landscapes to explore the human experience, in ways that feel both personal and timeless. A gorgeous guitarist, she weaves deft countermelodic motion into her gentle melodies, like soft breezes stirring a still forest." And, "...one of folk music's most respected songwriters... provocative, heartwise, and original ...a brilliant guitarist."
Mike Joyce of the Washington Post calls Grey "... a gifted multi-instrumentalist who consistently demonstrates his melodic finesse," while The New Mexico Daily describes his playing as "positively spellbinding".
Cindy Kallet has been writing music and playing the guitar since she was eleven years old, and has performed throughout the US for more than thirty years. She is a gifted songwriter, singer and guitarist with five solo albums to her credit. In the twenty-five years since the release of her first album, Cindy has built a devoted audience of all ages and from all walks of life. Her fans find many reasons to love her music, from her deep and intricate guitar playing to her clear and heartfelt singing to her honest and intelligent songwriting to her quietly outrageous humor. Her passion for folk tradition is deeply personal and challenges listeners to draw their own connections with the music.
Grey Larsen discovered Irish traditional music in the early '70s and pursues it with devotion to this day. Regarded as one of America's leading Irish flute players, Grey joins the silken grace of the East Galway flute style with the driving momentum found in Irish music at large. While he is best know for Irish music, Grey plays half a dozen instruments and is at home in several musical styles. He is a fine fiddler and has devoted a great deal of his musical life to the old-time fiddle music of his native southern Midwest, situated in the northern fringe of the Appalachian cultural region. In particular, Grey delights in sharing the lovely crooked-tune repertoire of southern
Indiana fiddler Joe Dawson, and loves to tell stories about his musical mentors like Joe and Irishmen Michael Kennedy, Tom Byrne and Tom McCaffrey.
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# Posted on October 25th 2007 by stv culchie
Re: Grey Larsen new CD, radio program
Is this what is known as a 'plug '?
# Posted on October 25th 2007 by bazouki dave and the real tooty flutey
Re: Grey Larsen new CD, radio program
No, it's only a plug if you list your new website more than three times.
# Posted on October 25th 2007 by csharpd
Re: Grey Larsen new CD, radio program
Ah so thats it then
# Posted on October 25th 2007 by bazouki dave and the real tooty flutey
Re: Grey Larsen new CD, radio program
Maybe this belongs under Events and Recordings?
# Posted on October 26th 2007 by Bob himself
Re: Grey Larsen new CD, radio program
Sigh. Yeah. Sorta declasse.
I hate it when people post pages and pages of copy-pasted promo material onto a *discussion* board. Even if it's relevant, and even if it was posted as a favor to Grey, it still tastes like spam.
A better tack would have been a short paragraph and a link to web-pages with the content in question (Do we really need to see the privacy policy here?).
# Posted on October 26th 2007 by Georgi
Re: Grey Larsen new CD, radio program
Although it does say above that Grey Larson discovered Irish music in the 70's, so we should probably be thankful for that.
# Posted on October 26th 2007 by Gzeg