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"Wyndfall"

"Piper's Dream is the delightful new offering from Wyndfall ... It's a mix of classical, traditional and original pieces played with a Celtic jazz influence. The arrangements are simple and clean even through the sound is intricate, and the final result if definitely well produced. The subtitle of the CD is "music for fresh ears," which is certainly the case, since it's not exactly traditional Irish music.
"seven of the tunes are vocals, in various combinations of traditional lyrics and melodies ... with Laughery lending his wistful tones to wistful tunes. His style is quiet and at the same time passionate, simultaneously commanding your attention, breaking your heart and lifting your spirit."

See complete review at www.rambles.net/wyndfall_piper02.html.
- Rambles.net


"Fulton getting Wyndfall of music"

Describing Wyndfall's music doesn't do it justice. You have to hear it. The musical trail mix of jazz, folk and classical might be in a genre of its own.
Maybe it's because this Leola-based quartet has mastered the art of melding melodies. Maybe it's because Wyndfall's members ... also seem to meld into a singular entity.
Their original music is worth noting. Reese's latest Reese Project CD, "Blue Etude," receive a preliminary 2002 Grammy monimation for best new jazz composition.
In Wyndfall, he is in euqlly good improvisational company. "Our music is builidng stories," Reese said.
Wyndfall began about five years ago as an Irish trio. At the time, the band included a fiddler who was replaced by Haines Reese, a classically trained musician who has performed all over the country and in Europe.
Among the classical, folk and jazz nuances in the band's music, Reese said that jazz shines through the most. That doesn't mean that the other genres get pushed aside, though. Wyndfall gives equal play to all.
During a set last weekend at Bube's Brewery in Mount Joy, cellist Reese performed a Bach solo and the band covered an Irish song called "Back Home in Derry" with equal ease.
Wyndfall just finished a series of performances in New York City, playing to crowds at HMV Records as well as at the musically trendy Red Lion Pub on Bleeker Street.
"We were lucky to play there," Haines Reese said. "They have a three-year waiting list."
Through it all, in all of its permutations, Wyndfall's members have remained connected in a way that is usually found only in jazz bands where improvisation is the norm. They essentially finish each other's musical sentences, filling in the blanks, smiling all the while.
Reese called what they do the result of trial and error. Observing Wyndfall's energy, the chemistry and synergy, it is hard to imagine the latter.
- Lancaster Sunday News


"Gaelic Storm thunders through Long's Park"

[Wyndfall opens for Gaelic Storm]
Local band Wyndfall got things rolling with a sultry imstrumental, leading, aptly enough, into Dougie MacLean's ballad "Ready for the Storm."
For the next hour, Wyndfall kept the park alive with a number of traditional songs and tunes, including "The Kelpie," "June Apple/Red-Haired Boy," "Bold Doherty," and a spirited "Back Home in Derry." They also played originals such as "Garden of You" and "The Piper's Dream."
The Celtic band, heavily influenced by jazz, added a bit of Baroque with Bach's "Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G Major for Solo Cello," spotlighting cellist Laurie Haines Reese.
The band also features Tom Reese of flute and pennywhistle, Chris Laughery on guitar and vocals and Chris Loser on drums. Adding percussion was guest musician Mark Sullivan.
- Lancaster Intelligencer Journal


"Wyndfall -- Grammy-nominated Irish folk"

by Patrick Kirchner
The life of Tom & Laurie Reese is an improvisation. One big, beautiful improvisation surrounding a series of concentric improvisations.
From playing to recording to teaching to booking to coalescing with new bandmates to being interviewed to making instruments to whatever else you could possibly think of in regard to music, each day provides the harmonic backdrop for the husband-and-wife duo to do what they do best – improvise.
… There is a definitive magic about the music of Wyndfall and the Reeses’ jazz band, The Reese Project, which draws you toward it. It has gravity which is recognizable yet foreign, inviting to the average listener yet intelligent enough for true aficionados. There is something for everyone in the Reeses’ music.
While Wyndfall predominantly stays within the realm of Irish folk music, the band can very easily slip into personalized versions of classical, rock, blues, or even jazz almost unnoticed by the common ear. Many listeners find themselves recognizing a well-known tune half-way through because the melody lines are so meticulously shrouded in Wyndfall’s thematic improvisations. This is somewhat expected, as Laurie comments, “Our whole goal is to create new music. Every time you play a piece it should be different – we want to recreate it each time so it sounds fresh.”
With Wyndfall, expect good drinking music that remains true to the bouncy melodic lines found in indigenous Irish ballads, plus an occasional divergence into Bach or Jethro Tull.

See complete article at: www.flymagazine.net/archive_bands_article.cfm?id=06df05ed

- The Fly Magazine (March 2004)


Discography

A Second Wynd (2004).

Piper's Dream (2002).
"A highly listenable CD" (PittsburghTimes)

Several tracks from this CD were chosen for "The Tartan Apple," by Skye Films.

"Katy's Rambles" was selected for an international compilation CD (New Age Voices) & for the Shriner's compilation CD.

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Bio

"This quartet has mastered the art of melding melodies. They essentially finish each other's musical sentences, filling in the blanks, smiling all the while." (Lancaster Sunday News)

Wyndfall's sound fuses elements of rock, celtic, classical & jazz into a fresh acoustic sound. They drive ordinary songs into new places. Acoustically oriented, this blend of neo-classical blues layered with whimsical vocals "summons the ancient troubador" in all of us.

Their love of performance is immediately engaging, while bringing accurate performances of traditional music to audiences east to west, north & south. Wyndfall’s varied repertoire swings from Irish traditional songs to jazz to formal classical pieces — incorporating improvisation everywhere possible!

Wyndfall has opened for Gaelic Storm, Blackmore's Night, Bela Fleck, & Grey Eye Glances. Bands that have opened for Wyndfall include Stacy Earle & Empty Hats. They shared the bill with The Chieftains, Saw Doctors, Pat McGuire & Davy Spillane for St. Paddy's week celebration in New York City. They have headlined at music festivals across the country. Their original compositions have won awards and have been featured in theater productions, children's museum productions, commissioned for original theater pieces, & featured at the Boston-Prague New Music Festival in Boston. Their originals & original arrangements were also featured during a performance with the Shippensburg College-Community Orchestra.

Recent venues include: Theater of the Living Arts (Philly), Westbury Music Fair (NY), Red Lion Pub (Manhattan), Big Buck Brewery (Detroit), Tulsa Mayfest, Four Green Fields (Detroit), 75th Street Brewery (Kansas City), Kilkenny's Pub (Tulsa), Penn State Music Festival, Paddy Reilly's (Manhattan), HMV Record Stores (Manhattan), New Directions in Cello Festival (WI), PA Renaissance Faire, Harrisburg Artsfest, Hoggetowne Medieval Faire (FL), Appalachian Brewing Company (Harrisburg), Celtic Fling (PA), & more!

Wyndfall’s influences include Jethro Tull, Bela Fleck, David Grisman & New Grass Revival, Turlough O’Carolan, JS Bach, John Coltrane, Miles Davis & Paul Simon.