Event

Kate McGarry/Keith Ganz

Durhamites, Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz return to Sharp Nine Gallery Friday July 25th with their duo project Genevieve & Ferdinand. Their last show here sold out as did CD release shows in SF, Boston and N.Y.. Here's what critics are saying about the husband and wife duo and their music:

***** (five stars) "Every song on the record is a highlight, thanks to the way McGarry & Ganz play off each other. Ganz brings a subtle sophistication with his fingerpicking style of playing, complementing the eloquence of McGarry's voiceHeartfelt and elegant, Genevieve and Ferdinand is simple perfection." ~ Celebrity Cafe

"McGarryhas never been any one thing. Although she's always identified herself as a jazz singer, she has long mixed jazz standards, hard-to-define originals, and a broad range of sources from contemporary to folk and popBetween Ganz's unique acoustic guitar vocabulary, McGarry's jazz-singer technique (and a sound that matches delicate pliancy with raw physicality,) a broad repertoire, and a shared intuition about how a song wants to go Genevieve and Ferdinand can feel infinitely varied." ~ The Boston Globe

"A peach of a new album", ~ The New York TImes

"Both have this marvelously expressive economy in their music, not one extraneous flourish, straight to the heart of the matterthe album is a concert recording without a blemish." ~ International Music Review

"There is no greater beacon of sincerity, honesty and emotional purity than Genevieve and Ferdinand. It doesn't contain bold proclamations or daring musical acts, but the disc is filled with some of the most genuine music that anybody is likely to ever hear."

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