Saturday, February 21

Saturday Nights on Phinney Ridge

Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen

Phinney Neighborhood Center (Brick Building), 7:30PM

General Admission: $14
$2 off for SFS & PNA members and seniors, kids half price

Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen, each well-known and loved for their decades of music making, have joined musical forces in a new duo. 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.

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.

For more on Cindy and Grey as individual artists, visit: http://www.cindykallet.com and http://www.greylarsen.com/ To hear Cindy and Grey's interview on NPR's All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93130817

On Sunday, February 22nd, Cindy and Grey will be conducting workshops at Dusty Strings music shop in the Fremont district. Grey's workshops will be on Irish Flute and Tin Whistle repertoire and technique. Cindy's workshops will cover creative hand techniques and easing melodies into your strum on guitar. Contact Dusty Strings at http://dustystrings.com for more information on Cindy and Grey's workshops.

Reserve online, or by calling 206/528-8523.