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- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: CDTRAX405
- Format: CD
- UPC: 5018081040520
- Street Date: 08/09/19
- PreBook Date: 07/05/19
- Label: Greentrax »
- Genre: Folk
- Run Time: 64:52 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2019
- Box Lot: 0
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
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Tony Mcmanus & Julia Toaspern - Live In Concert
Tony McManus (Scotland/Canada) and Julia Toaspern (Berlin, Germany) capture stellar live music while touring Germany!
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Tony McManus is one of the leading Celtic guitarists worldwide and has been listed as one of the 50 transcendental guitarists of all time by Guitar Player Magazine. While Tony is known as a soloist his frequent collaborations with diverse musicians have always been a significant part of his work. Tony joined the Greentrax label in 1995 and ''Live in Concert'' will be the 7th Tony McManus album to be released by Greentrax Recordings. This has been a long, happy and lasting relationship.
Julia Toaspern is a multi-talented musician from Berlin who combines classical training on violin and voice with a wide interest in genres such as jazz, baroque and traditional music. She has released two albums of original songs and has performed in both classical and singer/songwriter modes on both sides of the Atlantic. On top of all this, her skills as a guitarist are prodigious and make an exciting fit with Tony's work. On this ''Live'' album she sings, plays guitar and violin.
Tony and Julia's guitar treatment of traditional music is unique and each supports the other in exploring the harmonic possibilities of these old and not so old tunes. Each of the pair both flatpick and fingerpick at the highest level but always at the service of the tune rather than a display of technique. Julia's violin can effortlessly morph into a fiddle as she weaves from Italian madrigal to Scottish reel. Her songs go to the heart of love and loss, hope and survival and are inflected with a musical input from a wide and eclectic experience of musical life. Tony and Julia's arrangements are rooted in deep musicality and heartfelt expression.
Having met over a conversation in Berlin about J.S. Bach, together they play & sing music that speaks to them and hopefully through them to a wider audience.
The album was recorded ''Live'' during a German tour by the duo in the early part of 2019 and the German Folker Magazine said of them: ''Breathtaking duets.....''.
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