On Thursday, July 24th at 8 p.m., Cady Finlayson and Vita Tanga bring Spirited Irish fiddle music to Think Coffee, 248 Mercer St. in lower Manhattan.

The show is free.

Venue info: 212-228-6226
The show will include selections from the latest “Irish Coffee” CD as well as traditional jigs and reels.

Cady Finlayson, fiddle
Cady Finlayson specializes in “Spirited Irish fiddle with a Global Twist”, blending traditional Irish fiddle tunes with American folk and world music influences. She has performed in 33 U.S. States at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Jacob Javits Center and Cleveland’s State Theater. 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. Cady’s playing can be heard on the soundtrack to Irish-American film, “The Emerald Diamond” (about the Irish National Baseball team), on an Irish aerobics DVD and in Japanese Car Audio DVD Magazine Oto Gumi. She holds a Master of Music degree from Mannes College of Music in NYC and also attended the Blas International Summer School in Limerick, Ireland.
“Her music lights up a room” Rambles.net
“Gorgeous fiddle playing” CelticMP3s.com
“Delightful and spirited” DJFix.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. Vita is a also a sought-after composer in the World/Urban music and film-scoring scene. Vita and Cady met and performed together on the First National Tour of Theater Show, “Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver”.

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