Folk Music’s timeless ballads from Ireland, Scotland & America. Sara Grey & Kieron Means in concert

Once you have heard Sara Grey you will never forget her. She has a certain quality of voice that compels you to give her your undivided attention. Her voice is both powerful and sweet with a distinctive and lovely tremolo. It is a voice well suited to folk music’s timeless ballads from Ireland, Scotland and America. Add to Sara’s marvelous talents the musicianship of her son Kieron Means and this concert will be a special night of traditional folk music at Branford. Kieron is a singer primarily of traditional songs but also of his own contemporary songs and a guitar player of great merit. One of the best things about Sara Grey’s singing is that it reflects her great knowledge of and feeling for traditional music. She just seems to know what is right in the interpretation of a traditional song. She is a ballad singer of great strength with a fine understanding of the importance of understatement. On many of her songs Sara accompanies herself by frailing a five-string banjo and, when playing dance tunes, it is obvious why she is regarded as one of the foremost exponents of the clawhammer style. As well as singing and playing, Sara is well known for her storytelling — specializing in stories from New England where she grew up learning many of the stories from her father.