Tingstad & Rumbel Holiday Show December 15, 2012

Grammy Award-winning acoustic duo Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel return to the Firehouse. The show will be a special holiday mix of original and cover tunes with Tex-Mex stylings, Caribbean rhythms and Americana finger-picking. With Tingstad on guitar and Rumbel on oboe, English horn and double ocarina, the duo create classically inspired music with influences from regional America, the British Isles, Asia and Spain. Plenty of free parking is available.

Every holiday season for 27 years, multiple award-winners Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel have created a 'Home for the Holidays' celebration concert, and the Firehouse Arts Center is fortunate to be on their tour calendar this Christmas. It was back in March of 1985 that finger-guitarist Eric asked ethnomusicologist and musician Nancy to assist him in the recording of a holiday album. The resulting album "The Gift" became a best-selling recording, and launched a partnership that has resulted in world-wide demand for their live performances, including a popular Carnegie Hall concert.

Composer and guitarist Eric Tingstad hails from Seattle, where he was trained in the Segovian classic guitar tradition. According to Tingstad, Led Zeppelin, Hawaiian slack key guitar, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Denny are some of his primary influences. Nancy Rumbel grew up in San Antonio, Texas, then attended Northwestern University where she became interested in the field of ethnomusicology, which lead to joining the prestigious performing group the Paul Winter Consort for several years.

With 20 albums to their credit, the beloved team has multiple Grammy Award nominations, and won the Best New Age Grammy Award in 2003 for 'Acoustic Garden,' which show-cases their special brand of 'American home-style music'. "Acoustic instrumental music simply doesn't get any better - period,' according to reviewer Bill Binkelman.

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