"This quartet has mastered the art of melding melodies. They essentially finish each other's musical sentences, filling in the blanks, smiling all the while." (Lancaster Sunday News)
CD Personnel: Tom Reese, flute & whistle, Chris Laughery, guitar & vocal, Laurie Haines Reese, cello & Tom Tesnow, Jr., drums.
Wyndfall's sound fuses elements of rock, celtic, classical & jazz into a fresh acoustic sound. They drive ordinary songs into new places. Acoustically oriented, this blend of neo-classical blues layered with whimsical vocals "summons the ancient troubador" in all of us.
Their love of performance is immediately engaging, while bringing accurate performances of traditional music to audiences east to west, north & south. Wyndfall's varied repertoire swings from Irish traditional songs to jazz to formal classical pieces - incorporating improvisation everywhere possible!
Wyndfall has opened for Gaelic Storm, Blackmore's Night, Bela Fleck, & Grey Eye Glances. Bands that have opened for Wyndfall include Stacy Earle & Empty Hats. They shared the bill with The Chieftains, Saw Doctors, Pat McGuire & Davy Spillane for St. Paddy's week celebration in New York City. They have headlined at music festivals across the country. Their original compositions have won awards and have been featured in theater productions, children's museum productions, commissioned for original theater pieces, & featured at the Boston-Prague New Music Festival in Boston. Their originals & original arrangements were also featured during a performance with the Shippensburg College-Community Orchestra.
Recent venues include: Theater of the Living Arts (Philly), Westbury Music Fair (NY), Red Lion Pub (Manhattan), Big Buck Brewery (Detroit), Tulsa Mayfest, Four Green Fields (Detroit), 75th Street Brewery (Kansas City), Kilkenny's Pub (Tulsa), Penn State Music Festival, Paddy Reilly's (Manhattan), HMV Record Stores (Manhattan), New Directions in Cello Festival (WI), PA Renaissance Faire, Harrisburg Artsfest, Hoggetowne Medieval Faire (FL), Appalachian Brewing Company (Harrisburg), Celtic Fling (PA), & more!
Wyndfall's influences include Jethro Tull, Bela Fleck, David Grisman & New Grass Revival, Turlough O'Carolan, JS Bach, John Coltrane, Miles Davis & Paul Simon.
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