THE MIDDLETOWN HOUSE CONCERT SERIES presents:
Matt and Shannon Heaton
Thursday May 26th, at 8pm145 Margarite Rd. Ext.
Middletown, CT
Suggested donation: $25 general in advance ($28 at the door), $12 students, $7 children 12 & under
Please call Jody Cormack 860-983-7963 for reservations
or email jcormack@wesleyan.edu
After years of study in Chicago; many nights of music in Clare, Galway, and their adopted home of Boston; and countless performances, husband-and-wife duo After years of study in Chicago; many nights of music in Clare, Galway, and their adopted home of Boston; and countless performances, husband-and-wife duo Matt & Shannon Heaton offer updated and traditional Irish music with stirring traditional-style singing accompanied by flute, guitar, and bouzouki, and a fresh, appealing stage show.
They bring to their performances a depth of shared experience and a love for Irish music. Their stage banter and rapport with audiences is comfortable, often hilarious. The Boston Globe's Scott Alarik wrote, "Their playing is masterful and inventive, their arrangements city-smart and spacious. Still. they never forget that Irish music is, at its heart, a neighborly form meant for sharing, not showing off."
Their four duo CDs to date highlight the Heatons fresh, stellar, and accessible approach to presenting traditional music. And Shannon's August 2010 release "Blue Dress" rounds out their EatsRecords catalog [include link] with original and traditional flute music with harp, percussion, guitar, and bouzouki.offer updated and traditional Irish music with stirring traditional-style singing accompanied by flute, guitar, and bouzouki, and a fresh, appealing stage show.
They bring to their performances a depth of shared experience and a love for Irish music. Their stage banter and rapport with audiences is comfortable, often hilarious. The Boston Globe's Scott Alarik wrote, "Their playing is masterful and inventive, their arrangements city-smart and spacious. Still. they never forget that Irish music is, at its heart, a neighborly form meant for sharing, not showing off."
Their four duo CDs to date highlight the Heatons fresh, stellar, and accessible approach to presenting traditional music. Shannon Heaton has been voted Female Musician of the Year by Chicago’s Irish American News, and her August 2010 release "Blue Dress" rounds out their EatsRecords catalog [include link] with original and traditional flute music with harp, percussion, guitar, and bouzouki. The Heaton’s new CD “Lover’s Well” has been selected Trad Fusion Album of the Year by LiveIreland.com in Dublin. “American husband-and-wife duo Matt and Shannon Heaton combine lilt and contemporary sensibility. Consisting largelty of flute, guitar and bodhran [they] sidestep the expected treble timbre of Irish music… [their] songs are standouts…” – Sing Out! Magazine
“[Matt and Shannon Heaton’s] playing is masterful and inventive, their arrangements city-smart and spacious.
Still, they never forget that Irish music is, at its heart, a neighborly form meant for sharing, not showing off."
—Scott Alarik, Boston Globe
“[The Heaton’s] duet playing is tight, sweet, and tasteful, lacking nothing on either technical expertise or instrumental virtuosity.”
--- John O’Regan. Irish Music Magazine
There was a very fine article in Sunday's New Haven Register about choreographers/dancers Rachel Bernsen and Adele Meyers who will present the 3rd installment of "Take Your Time" on Friday and Saturday May 27-28 in The Big Room, Erector Square/Building 3, 319 Peck Street in New Haven. Rachel is pictured here with husband/collaborator Taylor Ho Bynum, whose music, co-written with bass clarinetist Carl Testa, will be part of Ms Bernsen's work, "Corridor." Both Bynum and Testa studied and graduated from Wesleyan where they studied with Professor Anthony Braxton - both continue to perform with him.
