Lui Collins, with Anand Nayak at Homegrown Coffeehouse

Lui Collins w/ Anand Nayak
one of New Englands clearest and most distinctive folk voices, with unusually piercing lyrical insight - Hartford Courant
Folksinger for our times. - The Boston Herald
one of New Englands first and brightest stars. - The Boston Globe

Lui will be joined by guitarist/Grammy-nominated producer and longtime collaborator, Anand Nayak, accompanying her in a wide range of styles and languages. Their decade plus of creative collaboration is evident in the fluid musical dialogue of their live performance.
Folk singer/songwriter Lui Collins has been performing, writing and recording for over 45 years, her early Philo and Green Linnet recordings earning international acclaim and establishing her as a respected voice in the folk world. Lui has shared the stage with such notables as Pete Seeger, Bonnie Raitt, Stan Rogers, Dar Williams, and John Gorka. ...

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Lui Collins w/ Anand Nayak
one of New Englands clearest and most distinctive folk voices, with unusually piercing lyrical insight - Hartford Courant
Folksinger for our times. - The Boston Herald
one of New Englands first and brightest stars. - The Boston Globe

Lui will be joined by guitarist/Grammy-nominated producer and longtime collaborator, Anand Nayak, accompanying her in a wide range of styles and languages. Their decade plus of creative collaboration is evident in the fluid musical dialogue of their live performance.
Folk singer/songwriter Lui Collins has been performing, writing and recording for over 45 years, her early Philo and Green Linnet recordings earning international acclaim and establishing her as a respected voice in the folk world. Lui has shared the stage with such notables as Pete Seeger, Bonnie Raitt, Stan Rogers, Dar Williams, and John Gorka.

Renowned guitarist Dave van Ronk called her one of the best guitarist-arrangers I have heard in years.
Lui sings my songs better than I do. - Canadian folk icon Stan Rogers

From playful 4-string arrangements of some favorite original songs, to the fabulous jazz chords in American standards and Bossa nova, Lui translates her rich and complex guitar arrangements onto her tenor ukulele to create something unexpected and delightful.

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