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Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are a musical duo, activists, educators, and a married couple.[1] They perform folk, bluegrass and children's music and have performed withPete Seeger,Theodore Bikel,Tom Paxton,Patsy Montana,Riders in the Sky and others. The Washington Area Music Association has recognized the duo with over 60 Wammie Awards for folk, bluegrass, and children's music.[citation needed]
Fink and Marxer earnedGrammy Awards for their recordingscELLAbration: a Tribute to Ella Jenkins, andBon Appétit!: Musical Food Fun. Their albumsPostcards andBanjo Talkin' were Grammy Finalists in the Best Traditional Folk Album category.[2]
Fink and Marxer currently live in Silver Spring, Maryland and Lansing, North Carolina.[citation needed]
Cathy Fink was born inMaryland, but began her musical career inCanada in the early 1970s,busking and playingfolk music in coffeehouses. A singer,guitarist,banjo player andyodeler, she made her recording debut in 1975 with Duck Donald, with whom she toured for five years and recorded three albums.
Marcy Marxer grew up inSwartz Creek, Michigan and learned to play guitar,mandolin,hammered dulcimer andbutton accordion while still in high school. She went to work forGeneral Motors but continued to play at every opportunity. In 1978, after receiving theater training at theAmerican Academy of Dramatic Arts and theRingling Brothers Clown College, she devoted herself to music full-time.
The two met in 1980, inToronto, Ontario, Canada, at theMariposa Folk Festival. By 1983 they had begun writing songs together and appearing on each other's albums. Soon after, they began performing together, often in children's concerts. In 1989, they released a self-titled album, and a permanent partnership was formed.
