Renowned musicians, Lui Collins and Anand Nyack’s nearly two decades of creative collaboration, are happily evident in the fluid musical dialogue and joy of their live performance.
Lui Collins has been performing, writing and recording for 50 years, earning international acclaim, along with reviews from the Boston Globe and Hartford Courant who called her “one of New England’s first and brightest stars… the clearest and most distinctive folk voice, with unusually piercing lyrical insight” .
Over the course of her long career, Lui has shared the stage with such notables as Tom Rush, Bonnie Raitt, Dave van Ronk, and Stan Rogers (who said “Lui sings my songs better than I do.”) Lui’s clear voice and engaging stage presence remain as vibrant as ever. Her repertoire, accompanied on tenor ukulele and banjo, ranges from original and traditional folk songs and American standards, to bossa nova in the original Brazilian Portuguese.
Lui will be joined by stellar accompanist, guitarist/Grammy-nominated producer and longtime collaborator, Anand Nayak Immersed in music at an early age, and building on years of classical piano, Anand turned to the guitar as a teenager and it has allowed him to explore a variety of electric and acoustic styles, creating a foundation for a unique ability to play with and enhance the music of a wide variety of musicians (notably his duo with his wife Polly, and his decades long key role as lead guitarist, singer, and arranger with local legends Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem).
Together on stage, Lui and Anand exude a joyful teamwork and lyrical chemistry that lives up the review Lui got from the Champlain Valley Folk Festival Newsletter- “capturing the hearts of the audience and having what amounts to a musical conversation with them that weaves a spell”
Join us for the dialogue- and let your soul be spellbound!
You may already know that Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen are two of the most beloved and bedazzling musicians in New England, sharing songs and tunes full of depth and joy. Cindy is a superb singer, scintillating guitarist, and soulful songwriter. Grey is also a fine vocalist, and a phenomenally versatile instrumentalist (concertina, fiddle, piano, harmonium…) and one of America’s finest players of the Irish flute and tin whistle.
