Each and every season for 26 years, Grammy Award-winning artists, Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel have been home for the holidays creating a longstanding tradition with Northwest families. Their holiday presence illuminates the enduring spirit of the season with a gift of music.
The perfect blend of Americana fingerstyle guitar, double reeds, and the ocarina emitting the nostalgic sound of penny whistles lends magic to the season that fills the world with hope through the redeeming power of music. The relationships Tingstad & Rumbel have created through the years continue to bring family and friends together as memories are made and cherished thereafter.
Eric and Nancy first collaborated in 1985 recording their debut CD, The Gift which quickly became a holiday classic. Their holiday discography includes,Comfort and Joy, Star of Wonder, and Peace on Earth. Festive and reverent, solemn and lively, the repertoire Eric and Nancy bring to audiences year after year are perennial favorites that have been passed down through the ages.
Eric Tingstad has just completed his 20th CD with a host of collaborators including Nancy Rumbel, Cindy Cashdollar and Byron Metcalf. Badlands will be officially released in January 2012. As a holiday offering, this CD will be made available at each of their shows during November and December.
Well-known throughout the country and throughout the music industry, Tingstad & Rumbel won the Best New Age Grammy Award in 2003 in support ofAcoustic Garden. Tingstad’s latest ensemble release, Southwest was nominated for a Grammy in 2007.
Eric Tingstad, a classical guitarist, and Nancy Rumbel, who plays oboe, English horn, and ocarina, began their association after meeting at a music festival in the Pacific Northwest in 1985. They were drawn together by a shared interest in applying their instruments outside their traditional settings, integrating ethnic, jazz, rock, and other contemporary influences into their classical backgrounds. Their neo-classical instrumentals mixed with a warm folk treatment has been called "Northwestern Impressionism."
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