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Correo Aèreo

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Correo Aèreo is an award winning multi-instrumental and vocal Latin/World music duo. Performing traditional music of Venezuela, Argentina & Mexico and organically innovating original work with soul, Correo Aèreo combines a stunning array of string and percussive instruments with silken vocal harmonies.

Brilliant revamped web site: www.correoaereo.com

Midwest Latino Heritage Month Tour now booking! Contact Josh Dunson for more information.

Los Lobos' David Hidalgo has often stated that to play harp extremely well you most often cannot play other instruments. Abel Rocha calls that wisdom into question since his considerable skill on the harp is matched by his flying fingers on quinta huapanguera, guitar and cuatro. His high, affecting vocal attack often soars above Madeleine's lower register, singing in a startling and affecting reversal of traditional male female harmony...the musical skill of this couple complements the impressive reach of their pan-hispanic musical repertoire and marks Correo Aèreo as one of the most exciting acoustic ensembles to appear in many years.

Dirty Linen Magazine

"Musically, a Correo Aèreo performance is like stepping through a doorway into another time and place... Together, their vocal harmonies are locked in carnal embrace, though it's Abel's plaintive cry, sung with an expression that mixes pleasure and pain, that's positively bewitching. As the couple trades longing glances, their sensual yet buoyant music dances gaily about a gently percussive beat and uplifting melodies. It's hard not to lose yourself completely in the quiet passion of this subtly dramatic music...Correo Aèreo was conjuring up musical spells...(their) magic was too strong for me. I never had a chance.

Austin Chronicle

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Peggy Seeger

Below is an excerpted review of Peggy Seeger’s 70th birthday concert. Peggy and RPM are looking for producers to sponsor an 80th birthday concert including North American friends who could fill New York’s Carnegie Hall in June 2015. Please contact Josh Dunson.

American-born folksinger Peggy Seeger first achieved renown in Britain-where she lived and performed more than 30 years with her husband/ singer/songwriter/folklorist/teacher Ewan MacColl. Since his death in 1989, she has lived in the States. In May 2005 she returned to England to celebrate her 70th birthday and gathered together an amazing group of traditional players and singers including members of her own family. Three Score & Ten documents this joyous concert with two CDs full of great songs and special memories. Seeger is a master musician in her own right, switching easily between guitar, banjo, concertina, piano and autoharp as well as leading or being part of all the evening’s vocal chores. She’s also a genial and warm master of ceremonies. She began the evening with an American version of “The Hangman,” performed solo before filling up the stage with her famous friend. Pretty soon, Eliza Carthy was playing fiddle on the “Fiddling Soldier,” while Seeger’s sons Neill and Calumn MacColl joined in on “Logan County Jail.” Carthy’s parents, Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy added their rich voices to “Che Guevara,” “Lowlands of Holland” and “Home Sweet Home. “ Martin Carthy provided his distinctive guitar to the Humors of Bandon.” Also on hand to lend instrumental support were accordionist Graham Henderson and percussionist James McNally. The evening’s first set ended with a wonderful duet between Seeger and Billy Bragg on her ode to women’s independence, “Darling Annie” before Bragg led the cast through a rousing rendition of the pro-union song “If You Want a Better Life.” Part of the review of Three Score & Ten. Lahri Bond August - September 2007. Read the complete review.

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Front cover of Peggy Seeger Live (Appleseed APR CD 1129)

From the February 27, 2010 Nelson, New Zealand Women’s Center brilliant benefit concert. An early review follows:

As the list of still active veteran artists continues to dwindle through inevitable attrition, we become increasingly grateful for those who persevere. Invariably, that gratitude is compounded when the artist in question not only perseveres, but does so while continuing to expand as an artist and build upon their respective legacies in the process. . . .True to form, Peggy Seeger has to date carved out a most impressive track record for herself via her solo endeavors, as well as the aforementioned collaborations with Mike Seeger and her late husband, composer Ewan McColl. Happily, Peggy Seeger Live succinctly yet decidedly celebrates those numerous triumphs via her ability to bring to the table her respective strengths as vocalist, composer, arranger and instrumentalist on an “as needed” basis.

To that effect, Peggy Seeger Live begins with a fairly faithful excerpt from Ludwig von Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, which simultaneously showcases her capability as a pianist, as well as her not so paradoxically genial and acerbic wit, which is used therein to salute both her mother and late brother. That unlikely combination is nonetheless endearing primarily by virtue of her frequently self-depreciating asides, which she briefly defers to in that same passage with a somewhat subjective assessment of her proficiency on the instrument. It is that rapier-like wit, as well as her highly discerning turn of phrase and remarkable ability as an instrumentalist (particularly evidenced in her sublime guitar work on You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are) that serve her admirably throughout the proceedings. Whether it is the wry social commentary of I’m Gonna Be An Engineer, Call Me Black and Fatal Flower Garden or the timeless exuberance of Bought Me A Cat and the uptempo workout, Sally Goodin/Sourwood Mountain, Seeger is unerringly in command of the proceedings. She is aided throughout by Bob Bickerton, Nathan Torvik and project producer (and long time partner), Irene Pyper-Scott, who also provides superb vocal accompaniment on Fatal Flower Garden.While it might seem difficult to summarize so vast and impressive a legacy into a single album, Peggy Seeger Live nonetheless serves as both a representative sampling of her most enduring attributes as a musician, while in turn inspiring further investigation. In the words of one of her earlier triumphs, Peggy Seeger remains On The Edge. In turn, those of us who are the beneficiaries of her tireless endeavors do indeed realize how blessed we are.

Michael McDowell
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