Spirited Irish Music : December Shows by Fiddle/Guitar Duo Cady Finlayson & Vita Tanga (NY/NJ)

    BROOKLYN, NY, December 04, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- On Wednesday December 10th at 4 p.m., Spirited Irish music will be heard on the streets of downtown Brooklyn, when fiddle/guitar duo Cady Finlayson & Vita Tanga kick off their holiday shows with an outdoor performance on Court St. and State St., in front of F. Martinella deli. This performance is sponsored by area Business Improvement Districts and is part of their Holiday Welcome Centers.

It is the first of three performances the duo will be playing that week. Their December calendar includes shows in New York City and Morristown, NJ as well.

Cady Finlayson & Vita Tanga
Spirited Irish fiddle with a global twist
Wed. Dec. 10th Court St. and State St. in downtown Brooklyn, NY 4pm-6 p.m. outdoors, free
Sat. Dec. 13th Sona 13, 13 South St. in Morristown, NJ 6pm-9 p.m
Thurs Dec. 18th 8 p.m. at Think Coffee, 248 Mercer St. in Manhattan thinkcoffeenyc.com

Cady Finlayson & Vita Tanga
THE STORY
"People ask us all the time, how did a French guitarist and a Brooklyn-based fiddler end up playing Irish music together? It all started at the most unlikely of Celtic rendezvous - on the First National Tour of Almost Heaven (a show about John Denver). I'd played Irish music for years and Vita was well-steeped in the world music and electonica genres. We were both hired to do this tour, and that's where we met, travelling across the country in a van with 5 actors. Vita and I entertained ourselves during soundchecks playing everything from French Christmas songs to the Theme from the Muppet Movie. But at some point, I just had to play Irish music- I missed it too much. Vita was happy to go along with this, and every day during the singers' soundcheck, we would run backstage and try some tunes. We spent most of our days doing long drives in the van, and it was easy to share ipods and get ideas.
So that's how it started. It was a musical chemistry from the beginning and we have great fun exploring all the possibilities.
Vita brings all sorts of influences to the mix and I sometimes think he is "the global twist". -Cady Finlayson

Cady Finlayson, fiddle
Cady has brought her Spirited Irish fiddle to 33 states at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the East Providence Heritage Festival. Her three fiddle CDs have attracted listeners from Australia to Japan and her Irish Coffee CD was one of the CDs nominated for "Best Celtic CD of 2007" by the NAR lifestyle awards.
"Her music lights up a room" Rambles.net
"Delightful and spirited" DJfix.com
"...the musicianship and chops of a concert violinist with the feeling and spirited of a good old-fashioned fiddler!". cdinsight.com

Vita Tanga, guitar
Vita has performed and recorded on 4 continents, from Radio City Music Hall in New York to Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris - his hometown. He is a sought-after composer in the World/Urban music and film-scoring scene and Music producer of the Triphop/Funk band liquidS.

DUO PERFORMANCES IN 2008
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum (NY) Oratory Church of St. Boniface (NY) Historic Park-McCullough (VT), Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor (NY) United Nations International School (NY) Think Coffee (NY)Windmuller Park (NY).

CONTACT: www.fiddleandguitar.com
e-mail: [email protected] (718) 832-3440
e-mail: [email protected]
(718) 832-3440

Cady and Vita have performed together at these venues.
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum (NY)
Oratory Church of St. Boniface (NY)
Historic Park-McCullough (VT)
Oratory Church of St. Boniface (NY)
Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor (NY)
United Nations International School (NY)
Grand Army Plaza Green Market (NY)
Windmuller Park (NY)
Think Coffee (NY)
Long Hill United Methodist Church (CT)
Open Ears Concert Series (TX)

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