Lui Collins, folksinger/songwriter, has been performing, writing and recording since the 1970s, earning international recognition for her music and releasing several highly-acclaimed recordings, on Philo, Green Linnet, her own Molly Gamblin Music, and Waterbug. A native Vermonter, Collins’ early music education included classical studies on piano, violin and French horn, followed by music theory studies at the University of Connecticut. While these formal studies provided a solid foundation for her music, folk music has been her inspiration and her path.
The Boston Globe has described Lui as “one of New England’s first and brightest stars,” and Sing Out! Magazine calls her “incomparable.” Renowned guitarist Dave van Ronk called her “one of the best guitarist-arrangers I have heard in years.” Michael Devlin of Music Matters Review wrote: “…there are relatively few artists who are bringing a traditional sensibility to modern songwriting, and in the process creating new traditional music. Lui Collins is among the barefoot royalty of this group…”
In 2003, after training with the international early-childhood music program Music Together, Lui founded the educational branch of her work, now called Lui Collins’ Upside-Up Music. Along with teaching Music Together and her own curriculum for older children, Kids’ Jam, Lui’s current focus is on adapting this 8-season traditional music based curriculum for use by homeschooling families – and others – with lower elementary-aged children.
For concert schedule, recordings, and more information see www.luicollins.com.
