Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer

GRAMMY Award winning American Roots artists Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer join with Chinese classical hammered dulcimer player Chao Tian in this folk infused world music exploration. Chinese and American songs are accompanied on yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), gourd banjo, five-string banjo, ukulele, guitars, dumbek, cello-banjo and mandolin.
The group’s repertoire includes traditional Chinese and Appalachian music as well as contemporary and traditional music from around the world. Unusual combinations explore new arrangements to old music, such as “Dark Eyes.” Ukulele, yangqin and guitar create a new pallet for this Russian folk song turned jazz manouche tune. Cathy and Marcy join Chao in singing a Chinese lullaby, “Nani Wan” and Chao easily adds her love of American Old-Time music to fiddle tunes and songs.
“From China to Appalachia brings together disparate musical traditions in the spirit of thoughtful inquiry and free artistic collaboration.” Greg Reisch, PhD, Director, Center for Popular Music, MTSU

WAHOO! celebrates a wide range of music on the ukulele by two-time GRAMMY Award winners Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer. Songs and tunes traverse multiple styles: western swing, calypso, jazz standard, Appalachian, Celtic and Tango. The duo's vocals are dreamy, their arrangements are masterful, and their playing shows a deep love of the ukulele and its vast possibilities.

GRAMMY® AWARD winners CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER honor influences such as Ola Belle Reed, Alice Gerrard, Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger, and good old P.D. (Traditional), along with songs by Cathy, David Francey, Ken Whitely, and Bob Dylan. Their unique arrangements include tight vocal harmonies and virtuosity on the five-string banjo, cello banjo (reinvented by Marcy), guitar, and ukulele.

GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Tom Paxton, and GRAMMY Winner Cathy Fink co-wrote 28 brand new songs together during the pandemic's lockdown - ALL NEW is the second recording by Tom with Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer - The first, Live in the UK, received a GRAMMY nomination as Best Folk Album in 2004. The double CD was recorded in both live concert and studio sessions at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, MD in January 2022 by Charlie Pilzer. Tom's on guitar and vocals, Cathy on banjo, guitar and vocals, and Marcy plays guitars, mandolin, cittern, banjo-ukulele, banjo-cello and washboard. Della Mae's Kimber Ludiker joins on fiddle, mandolin and harmony. Alex Lacquement plays bass and harmonica. The songs range in topic from love to comedy, history, social justice and great storytelling. Musical styles include folk, bluegrass, swing, country, and Celtic.

Jackie Washington's music was rooted in the popular quartets and swinging big bands of the 1930s and 40s. And it was that music that he brought to new, younger audiences playing clubs and folk festivals across Canada.
From one of Canada's swing masters comes a 22-track CD of unreleased Washington recordings spanning a twenty year period, as well as musical contributions from Colin Linden, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Mose Scarlett, Chris Whiteley, Graham Townsend, Reg Schwager and producer Ken Whiteley.