Dynamic Duo
Fink and Marxer, who formed their
duo in 1982 after working independ-
ently and meeting at a folk festival in
Canada, have made 22 entertainment
recordings as well as 15 educational
recordings and videos about playing
instruments. They have won eight
Grammy nominations — three of
them coming this year.
"Marcy and I have been playing
music for a living for nearly 30 years,"
says Fink, who grew up in Baltimore,
where she attended Sunday school and
had a confirmation.
"Marcy started her career in
Michigan playing in bluegrass
and old-time bands, while I got
swept up with folk sounds while
attending college in Canada. •
There was a thriving coffee-
house scene, and I got involved
hearing people play and picking
up songs and styles."
The duo, specializing in harmo-
ny singing and tight instrumental
arrangements, plays folk clubs,
concert halls and festival venues,
doing a lot of music for kids and
families. Fink returns to her roots
when appearing in Jewish com-
munity centers and synagogues.
"I consider myself to be a very spiri-
tual person," says Fink, 49 and single.
"My family belonged to a synagogue,
but I don't belong to a congregation
right now. I'm researching
Reconstructionist practices."
Steve Kaufman's Guitar Camp and the
Puget Sound Guitar Workshop.
"We'll have a new CD, Bon Appetit,
out in April," Fink says. "It has songs
about good nutrition and fun food for
kids. We sometimes perform songs to
try them out before we record them, but
we have a good sense of what's going to
work and what's not going to work.
"We also know that there are songs
that will record well but won't work
well in performance. There occasional- .
ly are songs that are great in perform-
ance but won't be great on CD."
Even with music as her career, Fink
thinks of music as an important
leisure pastime. She also enjoys cycling
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Fink and Marxer,
instrumentalists and
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Fink credits her Jewish upbringing
with steering her toward volunteer
work. When she was attending reli-
gious school, she was part of a group
that tutored inner-city children.
Although Fink took some guitar les-
sons as a youngster and later extended
her interests to banjo, she's mostly self-
taught. Listening to others play and
hanging out with musicians have been
part of her education.
With Marxer, Fink has taught mas-
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"I definitely feel I have a blessed and
lucky life," says Fink, who's toured
throughout the United States, Canada,
Great Britain, Japan, Australia, New
Zealand and Israel.
"One of the fun things in work is _
traveling and meeting a lot of musi-
cians and singer-songwriters. We get
to trade songs and often come home
with new material that adds to the
repertoire we offer." ❑
The 26th annual Ann Arbor Folk
Festival begins 7 p.m. Friday, Jan.
24, and 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25,
at the Michigan Theater, .603 E.
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Jan. 24: Friday's stage offers more progressive music performances and spot-
lights Patty Griffin, Seth Bernard, Jeffrey Gaines, Billy Jonas, Jeff Lang, Erin
McKeown, Josh Ritter, Waybacks, and Nerissa and Katryna Nields, who
also will emcee.
Jan. 25: Saturday's stage, featuring traditional folk and roots sounds, fea-
tures Patty Larkin, who ,also will emcee, Taj Mahal, Kate and Anna
McGarrigle, California Guitar Trio, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Jim
Lauderdale, Billy Jonas, Bob Franke and Rachael Davis.
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