Café Musique to celebrate release of new album with two Cambria shows

Café Musique will celebrate the release of its fourth album, “Ebb and Flow,” with two shows during the first weekend of April at Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre.

The shows are set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 2, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 3, at the theater, 1350 Main St.

Tickets, priced at $20, are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2502576, by calling 800-838-3006 or at the door.

“Ebb and Flow” is Café Musique’s fourth album on Mesa/Bluemoon recordings. The release features such selections as Astor Piazolla’s “Libertango,” the swing number “Sweet Lorraine,” the tango “El Choclo” and a “wild classical” arrangement of Vittorio Monti’s “Czardas,” along with the title track and others.

Café Musique’s repertoire ranges from gypsy to swing, from tango to folk. Led by violinist Brynn Albanese of Cambria, the band also features Eric Williams (guitars, ukulele, banjo and vocals), Duane Inglish on accordion, songwriter Craig Nuttycombe on guitar and multi-instrumentalist Fred Murray on bass.

The band has shared the stage with the likes of Doc Severinsen, Los Lobos, the David Grisman Quintet, Grammy-winner Louis Ortega, Joe Craven, Jill Knight and Broadway vocalist Sarah Kleeman.

Albanese, a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, toured with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops under the direction of Seiji Ozawa and John Williams from 1994 through 2001. After six years in the Netherlands, she returned to California, where she was principal second violion of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Monterey Symphony and Fresno Philharmonic.

She joined Café Musique in 2007.

All five members of the group hail from the Central Coast.

This story was originally published March 24, 2016 at 10:01 AM with the headline "Café Musique to celebrate release of new album with two Cambria shows."