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Athena Tergis and Kyle Alden

Celebrating the release of their CD, 'Songs from Yeats' Bee-loud Glade,' 13 poems by W. B. Yeats set to music, the spectacular fiddler Athena Tergis and the brilliant Bay Area singer & guitarist Kyle Alden will be presenting an evening featuring selections from their album and high-energy Irish reels and jigs. From Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon fiddle camp, Athena was soon touring Ireland with the Sharon Shannon Band, starring for a year and half on Broadway in New York in the mega-hit Riverdance, released dazzling debut 'solo' CD, 'A Letter Home,'produced by and featuring guitarist John Doyle, with whom she subsequently toured and currently tours and records with the esteemed ensemble 'Green Field of America.'Following a recent limited New York engagement with Riverdance composer, Bill Whelan, the 'Irish Voice' raved, 'Once or twice in a decade, if you're lucky, you'll get to hear a fiddler this gifted and Tergis - who has a dancer's build and often embodies the music she's playing - is the kind of musician who might have inspired Irish poets such as William Butler Yeats to dream their mighty dreams.' Alden is a vibrant figure on San Francisco's active Irish music scene. A member of the popular bands The Mild Colonial Boys and The Gas Men, Kyle has accompanied many traditional Irish luminaries, including Paddy Keenan and Tommy Peoples. For more, visit the websites at http://athena.cd and www.kylealden.com.