Dear music enthusiasts and fellow adventurers, Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron here, and we are thrilled to invite you to our musical odyssey this summer with the Heartdance tour. We just released a new record called Heartdance and can’t wait to share our passion for pushing boundaries and exploring the vast landscapes of music. Fusing…
Folias Duo Celebrates 20 Years Heartdance Due Out May 5 via Folias Music Folias Music is pleased to announce the 2023 release of Heartdance, a celebration of the twenty-year artistic and life partnership of flutist Carmen Maret and guitarist Andrew Bergeron, the Michigan-based performer-composer collaboration known as Folias Duo. Asked to explain the album’s title,…
This October we’re teaming up for concerts with Michael and Olivia, two of our favorite musical collaborators. We’ll feature original works and arrangements for this intimate quartet of voice, flute, and two guitars. The concert explores various classical, jazz, and tango combinations with a new take on the Folias Duo repertoire combined with songs from…
We’re grateful for summer chamber music concerts in Michigan. This July we were invited to play four concerts for the Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival. Curated by mutual colleagues and power couple Jenny Walvoord and Andrew Le, we had a fantastic time playing for their series. We played two evening concerts for the subscription series, an…
We ventured out for our cabin composing 2022 to three different cabins in Northern Michigan. We stayed in, cooked, wrote music, and practiced for two weeks in the Upper Peninsula. we started off two nights at Indian Lake State Park. Then, four nights at JW Wells State Park on the northern end of the Green…
We’re excited to announce the Folias Duo May Tour stats for the month-long tour we just completed in the western United States. It was incredible to be back touring again after three years of waiting for the right conditions! I think we’ve all been eager for this sense of being able to interact socially. This…
This Saturday we return to the Hackley Public Library for an in-person and live-streamed concert celebrating National Poetry Month. With guest vocalist Olivia Vargas, Folias Duo shares a concert of original compositions for flute, guitar, and voice inspired by the beauty of the earth and a love of poetry. The concert takes place in the…
Folias Duo announces the May Tour as we return to the western United States for concerts and new music. With concerts in intimate settings, we’ll share our instrumental compositions inspired by life on the road and impressions left by the natural world. Coming out of the pandemic, we can’t tell you how thrilled we are…
Listen to this special concert of trios and duos from the Folias Duo With Olivia Vargas March Live Stream on March 13. We premiered the collaborations of Soon and Air Drop Queen along with the original trio version of Andrew’s Emerson. Program: Air Drop Queen (2022) – Maret/Bergeron Soon (2022) – Vargas/Bergeron Self Deprecating Love…
For our February live stream concert, we take you on a musical safari! Folias Duo Valentine’s Safari. We start the show off with two pieces from the Folias cellar, the 2012/13 hits of Scotch Bonnet and Cabrales. After that, you’ll hear about the creatures of the safari with bulls, praying mantis, snakes, foxes, and locusts!…
Join us for our first live stream concert of 2022 Folias Duo Winter Light! We will be playing all of Andrew’s new suite The Way Through along with a set of Carmen’s music, including the second performance of Locust Storm. SUBSCRIBE! Apple http://bit.ly/FMLonAppleAndroid http://bit.ly/FMLonAndroidStitcher http://bit.ly/FMLonStitcher
Each December we hold a Folias Duo Open House featuring a concert and a display of our merchandise. In this year’s virtual version of the event, we present the music we’ve been working on this last year at home including a performance of Andrew’s full Dragonfly and the world premiere of Carmen’s new piece Locust Storm. Subscribe and…
Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron of the Folias Duo talk with flutist and composer Svetlana Djirackor about finding the magic in 2020. Maret and Bergeron discuss composing and performing their own music, their musical inspirations, how they model music after their favorite composers, and how the challenges of 2020 brought new ways of performing and…
What people are saying about Delicate Omens… Delicate Omens, “These two artists are top talents, almost singular within contemporary flute and guitar ensembles.” Flutist Quarterly – Fall 2020 “The recording exudes a magnificent clarity” “Immersing themselves in such manner fostered connection and contemplation in equal measure, the outcome compositions of genuine, elemental character.” “Maret’s flute…
Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron of the Folias Duo talk with their colleague Christopher Martin about the music for their upcoming album release. They discuss the process of musical recycling in composition, the intersection of tango, and musical inspiration from literature. Check out the concert and conversation. Subscribe and Review on Itunes http://foliasmusic.com//wp-content/podcasts/FMLChrisM.mp3Podcast: Play in…
Flutist Carmen Maret and guitarist Andrew Bergeron of the Folias Duo celebrate their 2019 summer tour marking sixteen years together as music and life partners. We’re hitting the road again this 2019 summer tour with 20 + shows in the western U.S. including concerts and milongas (tango dances) in New Mexico, California, Nevada, Oregon and…
Andrew and I have been talking for years about writing a flute and guitar concerto and we finally did it! Folias Duo Debuts Flute and Guitar Concerto Garita on October 4, 2018 at the GRCC International Guitar Series. Read the full program and notes right here: Naturaleza Suite (2016) Carmen Maret I. Octopus Fantasma (chacarera) II. Zamba…
2018 Tour Feelin’ the Love Check out our tour stats and thank you’s to all the folks that make this great endeavor of playing music possible. 26 gigs in 70 days in 13 states 15 nights in Colorado 10 nights in California 9 nights in Wisconsin 8 nights in Nevada 5 nights…
For the third year in a row, we’ve taken time out of our summer performing tour to write music at a “composing residency” in a rustic cabin in Colorado. This year we rented a cabin in the La Garita mountains just outside of the San Luis Valley. The cabin is a forty minute drive down…
When we’re on tour we always love preparing our food outside. This summer we enjoyed some outdoor California cooking as we camped in the Paso Robles and Mammoth Lakes areas. But seriously, it’s all about the produce. Once you get to the Central Valley past Sacramento you can find good ingredients at any store, and…
