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Carla Kihlstedt

Carla Kihlstedt may be the violinist in the Tin Head wear Trio and in addition has collaborated with a number of avant-garde and jazz music artists. Kihlstedt majored in traditional violin performance in the Oberlin Conservatory and continued to become prominent performer in both traditional and improvised music, using performers …

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2 Foot Yard

The San Francisco-based trio 2 Feet Yard is well known because of its daring and pioneering way with classical sounds: when violinist/vocalist Carla Kihlstedt, percussionist/guitarist Shahzad Ismaily, and cellist/vocalist Marika Hughes aren’t fusing them with visceral, pounding rock or energetic pop, they’re exploring compositional boundaries by hitching e e cummings …

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