Atwater-Donnelly

Rhode Island-born folk music artists Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly met in March 1987, if they shared emcee responsibilities on the all-volunteer Rock Soup Coffeehouse in Providence, Rhode Isle. Signing up for their voices jointly for an a cappella launch to one from the evening’s performers, they found that their mixed tone was very much higher than what they could generate independently. In the years since, they’ve continuing to create their greatest claims together. Wedded since 1989, both vocalists and multi-instrumentalists possess successfully explored a broad spectral range of traditional and modern folk music. The granddaughter of famous violinist Mary Rose Eaton His, Atwater 1st performed piano. Although she spent seven years learning traditional technique, she remaining the device behind at age thirteen. She didn’t go back to music until switching towards the classical guitar at age sixteen, and teaching herself to try out folk-like tracks by Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, Wayne Taylor and Neil Youthful. While studying mindset, background and French at Brownish College or university in Rhode Isle, she became a regular performer at campus coffeehouses and rallies. Soon after volunteering to just work at Rock Soup Coffeehouse, she fulfilled her husband to be. A self-taught guitarist and harmonica participant, Donnelly continues to be performing music because the age group of fifteen. Furthermore to performing like a soloist, he used a rock-band, the Lonely Items, from 1965 to 1967, and an organization, the Kesar Music group, that specialised in the original music of Cambodia in 1984. Atwater-Donnelly’s 1st two duo albums — Labor And Like, in 1988, and Culled Through the Backyard, in 1991 — centered on traditional tracks from Ireland, Britain and Scotland. Their following releases — Just like the Willow Tree, in 1994, and Where in fact the Wild Birds Perform Whistle, in 1997 — had been expanded to add traditional Appalachian music and original tracks. As the duo performs frequently through the entire Northeast, Atwater offers periodically worked like a soloist. Furthermore to touring through the entire United States as well as the English Isles, she released a single album, Simple Phrases, of her unique tracks in 1992. A publication of her poems, BE CAUTIOUS, Don’t Walk Barefoot on My Kitchen Ground, was self-published in 1995. Atwater in addition has consistently put into her arsenal of musical tools. A former college student of important dulcimer participant Jean Ritchie, she’s trained dulcimer classes in the Hindman Settlement College in Kentucky, the Ozark Folk Middle in Arkansas as well as the John C. Campbell Folk College in NEW YORK. Atwater happens to be focusing on a live documenting of children’s music with learners of American community academic institutions in England.