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Friday, September 19, 2008 / 9:00 / Suggested Donation: $3-$5
Headlining: Colin McCaffrey
Genre: Americana/roots music
Colin James McCaffrey was born just after the full moon on September 7th in Brattleboro, Vermont. The second of four children, he started playing piano, guitar and violin at a young age; performing music with his family throughout Vermont and New Hampshire.
He graduated from Kimball Union Academy in 1986 and went on to complete a BA in music composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston. After graduating with honors in 1990, Colin moved back to central Vermont. He stays busy as a performer, songwriter, composer and arranger, studio musician, sound engineer, and producer, and teacher.
Colin lives beside the picturesque Winooski River in East Montpelier, Vermont with his wife, author Laura Williams McCaffrey, his daughters Cerridwyn and Magdalene, their dog Rosie, and their cat Blackjack. He loves - in his precious spare time - to fish, hunt, gather, sketch and paint.
Colin's first CD WHAT WE'VE GOT was produced by 8-time Grammy winner Bil VornDick and Bronson Herrmuth through Stepping Stone Productions in Nashville TN. To listen to some of these songs, download samples in the Record Store.
Colin's song "Never Get The Nerve To Call" was sung by Shauna Antoniuc on I Heard The Highway a great record by Vermont Western Swing and Country legend Rick Norcross and the Ramblers.
Colin appeared in and co-arranged music for the 1997 independently released film "Letters From My Mother's Early Lover's" Directed by Nora Jacobson. Colin's playing can also be heard on the documentary series "Colonial Life For Children " by Stonehouse Productions in Greenwich, CT. Both of these projects were recorded at Noteworthy Studios in Granville, VT.
Colin co-produced Mother Goose's Never-Ending Tea Party a new children's record with Rebop Records and the Vermont Center For The Book. The project features old folk songs, Mother Goose Rhymes put to new music, as well as new songs by Colin and his daughters.
Colin wrote and arranged music for the 1999 Circus Smirkus Production "The Adventures of Robin Hood", which is the focus of a British documentary film series entitled "Circus Kids" aired on the Disney Channel 2000. To hear some of these pieces, download samples from the Record Store.
If you're in the WDEV or WNCS listening area, you've probably heard Colin's jingles for Capitol grounds, Onion River Sports, The Shoe Horn, Planned Parenthood, and Cabot Creamery.