Cece and Ruth

Photo credit:  Bill Morgan, West Hartford

Each winter Cece & Ruth set aside time to learn new songs from their “wish list”, develop arrangements, try out new instruments, and prepare surprises for their loyal fans for the coming season.   They often bring special guests, silly hats, Hawiian leis, singing frogs, bearded ladies & the occasional sound effects track.  Their blend of old favorites and new surprises have kept their fans coming back for more since 1997. 
Bookings
Trains Wrecked Productions, LLC
Phone: (860) 665-7149
ceceandruth@gmail.com

Cece & Ruth bring you songs of love, songs of war & peace, of hearth & home, and of the people from the American West to the Celtic Isles. Milk maids and their young swains, cowboys, kings & paupers, sailors, witches, sea-sprites and begging monks inhabit these ballads.

With songs ranging from the silly to the sublime, performances include play & sing-along opportunities for the audience to join in. Cece & Ruth accompany their soaring harmonies on guitars, harmonica & pennywhistle, adding percussion on bodhran, castanets and more.

Performing in New England as a duo since 1997, their live Cd “Hearts in Harmony” has enjoyed wide radio play on folk stations in the US and abroad. Their 2 nd Cd, “Perennials” is due for release in Spring of 2006.

REAL FOLK MUSIC, FROM REAL FOLKS

Both Ruth & Cece work full-time in the “real world”, and pursue their music part-time with a passion … accepting only those gigs where they can make audience connection, and singing only those songs that touch them deeply.

Ruth is a full-time teacher in Wethersfield, of English as a Second Language … very appropriate, since her youth was spent wandering the globe.   She’s performed from the UK to Israel in concert halls (and busking on the streets) with her vintage Martin.  In her wanderings from Mexico to Greece, she has collected a world of songs to share.

Cece started playing on her dad’s well-worn Gibson during the folk revival of the 60’s, and spent years in chorus & choirs where she honed her harmony skills.  A full-time traffic manager who ships tradeshow exhibits around the USA & the world, she says folk music is her magic carpet ride to exotic places, her time machine to other eras.