[Classifieds] Woods Hole Folk Music Society presents Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen

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The Woods Hole Folk Music Society’s 46th season will continue on February 11, 2018 with a performance by singer-songwriter Cindy Kallet and multi-instrumentalist Grey Larsen. The concert will take place at 7:30 PM in Community Hall, 68 Water Street, Woods Hole. Doors open at 7 PM. Admission is $20 with discounts for members, seniors, youth and children; season passes are also available. Community Hall is handicapped accessible, and street parking is free after 6 PM.

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Cindy Kallet and versatile multi-instrumentalist Grey Larsen will present a concert of contemporary and traditional songs and tunes at the Woods Hole Folk Music Society’s February 11 concert.
With long careers as individual artists, Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen have now been collaborating for over a decade, blending their voices with a variety of instrumental accompaniments and adding stories and anecdotes to put the music into a personal context. Their music is deeply rooted in tradition, interwoven with the renaissance and baroque music in which both were immersed while growing up.
Cindy Kallet is a renowned songwriter, singer and guitarist with a clear and powerful alto voice. She has performed extensively throughout North America in coffeehouses, concert halls, house concerts and music camps. She has also appeared on A Prairie Home Companion and WFMT’s Folkstage.
Ms. Kallet has made ten recordings to date. Her first, Working on Wings to Fly, was voted one of the Top 100 Folk Albums of the [last] Century by WUMB Boston radio listeners, and in 2004 Leave the Cake in the Mailbox – Songs for Parents and Kids Growing Up won a Parents’ Choice Gold Award. Her repertoire includes original songs on such varied topics as love, home, the state of the world, optimism, diapers, and skunks.
She tours as a solo performer, as a duo with Grey Larsen, and as a trio, Kallet, Epstein and Cicone. Her love for the natural beauty of the New England coast has inspired many of her songs. Ms. Kallet has long connections to Martha’s Vineyard, volunteering as a teen at Edgartown’s Felix Neck Sanctuary and eventually working as a naturalist to preserve land and habitat on the Island.
Grey Larsen is an accomplished singer and one of America’s most highly regarded players of traditional Irish flute and tin whistle. His recordings showcase his distinctively rich tone and fluid, rhythmically ornamented style, as well as his mastery of fiddle, Anglo concertina, piano, and harmonium. Mr. Larsen’s music encompasses the traditions of Appalachia, southern Indiana, Scandinavia and Québec in addition to Ireland.
A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Mr. Larsen studied composition, early classical music and traditional Irish music in equal measure. His early collaborations with the group Metamora (Malcolm Dalglish, André Marchand and Paddy League) produced recordings that are considered to be classics in the folk and world music genres. Since the early 1970s he has also devoted himself to the traditional fiddle music of his native Midwest and Appalachia, in particular the music of southern Indiana fiddler Joe Dawson.
Mr. Larsen now bases his musical life in Bloomington, Indiana as a performer, teacher, author, recording artist, studio producer and mastering engineer. His books on Irish music are among the most comprehensive and innovative in print, selling more than 15,000 copies worldwide. He has also been the music editor for Sing Out! Magazine since 1989.
In 2007 Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen released their first duo recording, Cross the Water, followed by the video and single Back When We Were All Machines, a playful look at our modern paradox of human connection and isolation. Their newest CD, Welcome Day, was released in 2015. They are currently recording an album which will feature newly written songs by Ms. Kallet, a jointly composed piece for concertina, guitar and harmonium, rare Indiana fiddle tunes from the repertoire of Joe Dawson, and traditional Irish music.
“If the stresses of the world wear you down, relax and recharge by sitting in an easy chair and listening to Kallet and Larsen. No one else in the Folk world sounds quite like them.” (R. Warr, Sing Out vol 52 #2  Summer 2008)
As Matthew Murphy of The Falmouth Enterprise described the duo’s last visit to Woods Hole in 2013: “This was not so much a concert as two gentle and feeling souls sharing their lives through music with the audience … It was simply a wonderful and moving evening.
Further information is available at www.kalletlarsen.com<http://www.kalletlarsen.com>.
Upcoming WHFMS performances include: Feb. 25, Windborne; Mar. 11, Claudia Schmidt & Sally Rogers; Mar. 25, Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters; Apr. 8, Joe Jencks.

The Woods Hole Folk Music Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering enjoyment of folk music in all its forms. Concerts are made possible by support from its members, season subscribers, volunteers, and performers. Refreshments are served at intermission, and donations of baked goods are always welcome. More information is available at woodsholefolk at gmail.com<mailto:woodsholefolk at gmail.com> and www.arts-cape.com/whfolkmusic<http://www.arts-cape.com/whfolkmusic>.



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