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Alasdair Fraser is among Scotland’s most influential tradition-rooted fiddlers. A two-time champion from the open up competition from the Scottish Country wide Fiddle Tournament, Fraser is constantly on the increase the musical customs of his homeland along with his expressive and virtuosic playing. Furthermore to performing a lot more than …

Narada recording performers Tingstad & Rumbel are performer/composers who’ve been presenting their modern folk music throughout THE UNITED STATES because the mid-’80s. Eric Tingstad, a traditional guitarist, and Nancy Rumbel, who has oboe, British horn, and ocarina, started their association after conference in a music celebration within the Pacific Northwest. …

Michael Whalen was created in 1965 and was raised in Washington, D.C., where he performed in a number of orchestras, rings, and experimental efficiency groups. He researched music in the Interlochen Middle for the Arts, Berklee University of Music, New Britain Conservatory, as well as the College or university of …

This brilliant, yet little-known, German artist includes a flair for combining refined ambiences with traveling funk bass lines and rock beats. His well-constructed melodies and improvisations tend to be quite catchy, while his track game titles and symbolic sonic imagery are lined with interpersonal commentary. Classically qualified, Leifeld makes a …

This Seattle-based composer and music teacher writes contemporary piano-based ensemble works inspired by family, friends, and the wonder from the Pacific Northwest. Though his uptempo items are on the trite part, he’s at his greatest when he creates moving, impressionistic music including acoustic piano and melodic devices like oboe, French …

Boston singer/songwriter Merrie Amsterburg began her music career because the singer and guitarist for the later-’80s early-’90s music group the Natives, who have been nearly signed by KISS’ Gene Simmons, and recorded monitors with Blondie manufacturer Richard Gottehrer. However, both projects had been unsuccessful — Simmons’ label wasn’t prepared in …

A seamless mixture of Celtic music, jazz, and classical chamber music has provided Nightnoise their distinct audio. Nightnoise was conceived like a duo created by Irish guitarist Mícháun Ó Domhnaill, previously of Skara Brae as well as the Bothy Music group, and classically qualified American violinist Billy Oskay, soon after …

The Swiss guitarist was most widely known for his association with boyhood chum Andreas Vollenweider. Lasser’s trips and recordings using the harpist culminated in Vollenweider’s Grammy-winning recording Right down to the Moon. A 12 months later on, the guitarist created Maximum Lasser’s Ark and produced several colorful, flexible albums.

This NJ native continues to be captivated by percussion since childhood. Like Mickey Hart, Pluznick has truly gone beyond Western customs in his lifelong quest for the magic of tempo. His music weaves digital drums and synthesized melodies with a massive collection of cultural tools and rhythms hailing mainly from …

Using a B.A. in music, a Experts level in psychotherapy, along with a license to apply therapeutic massage, this keyboardist started his recording profession creating guided rest tapes. His afterwards instrumental albums combine soft pop rhythms with positive melodies created for the brand new age-lifestyle marketplace already acquainted with his …