Welcome! Our Folias Music GO Series is a monthly live-streamed concert with Folias Duo alongside musical guests who play fresh, undiscovered, and newly written music for soloists and small groups. We started the GO Series in 2020 to keep connecting with musicians and audiences, and we’re excited about the continued availability of broadcasting technologies for independent artists.…
For this month’s live stream concert we have created a multi-media program called “Journey to the End of Summer.” Alongside some of our newer flute and guitar compositions, we will feature animated videos of artworks in our collection by Alynn Guerra, David McKie, Gregg Bruff, and Alina Poroshina. The story read by Andrew is about…
Folias Duo May Live Stream “20th Show” SUNDAY, MAY 9, 2021 at 4pm Eastern https://www.facebook.com/foliasmusic/live/https://www.youtube.com/foliasmusic Wow, these have been some crazy fourteen months! Thank YOU for listening, spreading the word, and supporting us. This show marks Folias Duo’s 20th live stream concert, and we are so happy to be continuing our artistic pursuits. We have…
Folias Duo “The Literary Show” November Live Stream Concert SUNDAY, NOV 8 at 4PM ET https://www.facebook.com/foliasmusic/live/https://www.foliasmusic.com/video/ We will be taking our monthly live stream concert on the road this month. We’ll be live in the stacks at the Hackley Public Library! The show will feature music inspired by the prose of Cormac McCarthy, Ralph Waldo…
Over the winter break Carmen and I got away from the Michigan grey and went to Southwest Texas. While we were there we made a music video of my composition Silver Jack in Big Bend National Park. With only the cacti and the creosote present we wanted to share this beautiful place with you. https://youtu.be/tzzhnDJxd7g
In October Folias Duo had the opportunity to have a conversation and play live on Blue Lake Public Radio. It was our pleasure to return to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and be joined by long time announcer Bonnie Bierma. We discussed our newest release Delicate Omens along with our compositional process. In the classical…
Delicate Omens Official Release by Folias Duo on October 6, 2019 on the Folias Music label Flutist Carmen Maret and guitarist Andrew Bergeron, the husband-and-wife duo “daring in self-written music” (American Record Guide) continue to carve out their uncommon niche in the classical music world as performers who are also composers. The Folias Duo’s newest release…
Once a year Carmen and I take a break from our usual everyday life of teaching and performing. During our break we take advantage of our extra time to write some new music. Unlike our modern 21st century contemporaries we like to go back 100 years or so by renting a rustic cabin. This year…
When we tour we play two different kind of gigs–we play for concerts and we play for tango dances called milongas. The milongas on the Dreaming to Live Tour represented 9 out or 27 performances in 7 states. The great thing about playing a dance is people listening to your music and putting it into motion…
On the Dreaming to Live tour we had the opportunity to play a Tuesday morning concert at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Thanks to our friend Debbie Crosser we got a great video of the performance. It was great to play our music in such a beautiful setting. There also was a great appreciative audience. Here…
One of the more difficult things for a couple of touring musicians to find is a good place to practice on the road. Moving to a new place everyday doesn’t leave a lot of options for a quiet focused environment. So, on Dreaming to Live tour we invented the picnic table practice room formula: Start the…
Here we go on the Dreaming to Live Tour! Come and join us for a concert or a dance and celebrate performances in 24 cities across the country. Check us out west in May and June for some milongas, concert series, and library shows. Then, in July and August we’ll be back in the beautiful…
As a musician it is always nice to play a concert of new music. It is not only important that you are playing new songs but that you feel comfortable presenting the new material. This was the case in November when we played a concert at Hope College. The concert was held in Hope College’s beautiful…
After a great summer of touring and a composing residency in Colorado it was time for a new music premieres concert. I get asked all of the time, “Since you wrote the piece then can’t you already play it?”. The answer to this question is, not really. Just because I came up with the composition…
Carmen and I had the opportunity to take 2 weeks off of our busy summer schedule and create a composing residency in Colorado. Rather than stay at home we decided to go distraction free by renting a rustic cabin. The Grizzly Creek Guard Station was our home for 14 days and nights. We had nothing…
Carmen and I have been playing arrangements of Astor Piazzolla ever since we met in September of 2002. We have played many different pieces by Piazzolla but recently we decided that it was time for some new Piazzolla arrangements. Escualo The first piece that I decided to arrange, Escualo, was originally written as a violin…
There was an extra special performance for Folias on our 2016 summer tour. We were invited to play a set of music at the Burning Tango festival in Northern California. The festival takes place in the small town of McCloud at the base of Mount Shasta. Dancers from all over the country get together for…
Every summer we set off to spend our lives on the road playing concerts and milongas. Each year we add a few pieces to our summer repertoire and I thought that it would be nice to document what we played this year. This year we did not only have one concert worth of songs but…
Every spring there is a great gathering of guitar ensembles called the Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival. This year it was in our home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The festival always features a mass guitar ensemble to play a premier composition written for that year’s festival. This year I was asked to write the composition! The piece…
We enjoyed some great winery picnics in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho last summer. Visiting wineries give us the opportunity to see the land and geography of a place, as well as the agriculture. They are almost always in beautiful setting as well and we continue to choose to drive out of the way to…
