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Contact Information: Irishcoffeeentertainment@gmail.comIrish Coffee Entertainment Announces the New Celtic Purple CD from Cady Finlayson

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2019
(Brooklyn, NY)
Irish Coffee Entertainment is pleased to announce the release of the new Celtic Purple CD from Cady Finlayson. Celtic Purple includes Spirited and soulful Celtic music featuring the fiddle. Celtic melodies are blended with American folk and World music styles, creating a mixture of uplifting and soulful moments. There are Marches, Irish reels, Scottish tunes and a beautiful Celtic version of the hymn, “Be Thou My Vision”. She partners with Vita Tanga on guitar and is joined by guest artists including
Chris Benham,percussion, Mary Abdill,piano and Isaac Alderson, uilleann pipes.
Celtic Purple is Celtic music with a twist – a new shade of green – and the beautiful melodies of traditional Celtic music shine brightly throughout.
Artist Bio:
Cady Finlayson has brought her spirited Celtic fiddling to 38 states and Ireland, performing at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Blackstone Valley Celtic Festival. Her music blends traditional Celtic tunes with global rhythms and American folk, creating a signature sound that appeals to a variety of audiences. “I love to bring Celtic music to people who might not otherwise hear it,” she says.

Reviewers have described her playing as “highly melodic” (Dirty Linen); “gorgeous fiddle playing” (MP3s Music Magazine); “a remarkable talent” (Michael Allison); and “fresh and interesting” (AMG). Cady says, “The first time I heard Irish music it was one of those really powerful connections. I had to play it.” She studied Irish fiddling with NY-Sligo fiddler Brian Conway and then traveled to Limerick, Ireland as the winner of the President’s Award Scholarship. At the Blas International Summer School, she learned from some of Ireland’s greatest fiddlers and studied Irish history, culture, dance, and language.

Her background includes a Master of Music from Mannes College of Music in New York, and she has played violin since her childhood in Seattle.
Her playing can be heard on soundtracks including Irish-American baseball movie, The Emerald Diamond, films such as Random Acts, Snakes and Ladders and Child of Giants: My journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange. She has also recorded on CDs for Pierce Turner and the Police Pipes and Drums of Bergen County. Her songwriting made her a two-time finalist for the International Acoustic Music Awards.

Vita Tanga, guitar, guitar-percussion
Cady’s musical partner, Vita Tanga, is also featured on this cd. Vita has performed and recorded on four continents, from Radio City Music hall in New York City to Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris - his hometown. Vita met Cady while performing on the First National Tour of Theater show, “Almost Heaven”, and they have been bringing their spirited blend of Celtic music to audiences ever since.

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