![]() Liz Carroll & John Doyle: Portland, Maine (Nov. ![]() Liz Carroll: North River, Nova Scotia (Oct. Glen Campbell, with Instant People: Worcester, Massachusetts (Jan. 2008)įil Campbell: Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Sept. Jackson Browne: Providence, Rhode Island (Apr. Sam Brown, with Michael Rattray: Manchester, United Kingdom (March 2006) 2002)īroderick: New Milton, United Kingdom (July 2001)Īlison Brown Quartet: Wagmatcook, Nova Scotia (Oct. 2003)īonerama: Lancaster, Pennsylvania (June 2009)īon Jovi: Hershey, Pennsylvania (July 2001)īowfire: Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Oct. Luka Bloom: Denver, Colorado (March 2000)īluehorses: Montreux, Switzerland (July 2006)Įric Bogle & John Munroe: Carrig on Bannow, Ireland (Aug. 2014)īlazin' Fiddles, with Cristina Pato: Leicester, United Kingdom (June 2004)īlood, Sweat & Tears: Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Aug. Mary Black: Boulder, Colorado (July 1999)īlack 47: North Haven, Connecticut (June 2000)īlack 47, with the Ogham Stones: Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Feb. ![]() 1999)įrances Black: Manchester, United Kingdom (June 2006) Jenny Bird, with Melissa Crabtree: Boulder, Colorado (Nov. The Be Good Tanyas with Darden Smith: London, United Kingdom (July 2002)īeyond the Pale: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania (May 2002) 2007)īrendan Begley & Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh: Portland, Maine (Oct. 2001)īattlefield Band: Baar, Switzerland (Feb. 2008)īattlefield Band: Toronto, Ontario (Nov. The Askew Sisters: Guildford, United Kingdom (April 2008)Ītlantic Wave: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (July 2006) The Arrogant Worms: Altamont, New York (June 2001) James Apollo & Risa Hall: Bury, United Kingdom (April 2006) 2011)Īmerica, with Linda Ronstadt: Wallingford, Connecticut (June 2006) 2013)Īlbannach: King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (Feb. Besides, it gives us a chance to stretch a bit in other directions and keep the page fresh and interesting, eh?)Ĭoncerts are listed alphabetically by the performer.īryan Adams: York, Pennsylvania (Dec. (You'll find some bands listed on this page which normally wouldn't be featured at Rambles.NET, but we think live performances are a folk art all their own. Here's your peek into some of the concerts we've seen. It's another thing entirely to stand on a stage and entertain a crowd. Saturday, August 25, 7 PM, Pavilion, Ravinia Festival, Green Bay and Lake Cook Rds., Highland Park 84.Īrt accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/Andrew MacNaughton.It's one thing to cut a good album in the studio. MacMaster’s current tour is technically in support of In My Hands, but she tends to cover a lot of ground in her performances though the show will doubtless emphasize her recent crossover-friendly material, there should also be a fair amount of traditional music, and even a bit of step dancing. On the goosebump-inducing title tune, based on the traditional Irish reel “The Drunken Landlady,” she coos breathily over a double-tracked recording of her own narration, while her fiddle weaves a bright filigree above a panoramic programmed soundscape. “Blue Bonnets Over the Border” features throbbing electric bass and swirling strings–and a pounding drum program that, ironically enough, suggests a bodhran. It intersperses pristine folk recitals with dense, contemporary-sounding pieces that juxtapose her ageless fiddle with rock percussion, electric guitar, or undulating layers of synthesizer. Her discography (on Rounder in the States) includes traditional material like 1997’s Fit as a Fiddle and My Roots Are Showing–recorded in ’98 but unreleased here until last year–but she’s also pushed the envelope with albums like In My Hands, recorded in ’99 and still her most recent work. Natalie MacMaster, niece of legendary Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster, took up her instrument at age nine, and by her teens she was a leading practitioner of the style. Performances are traditionally given solo or in a small group, with the fiddler’s own feet providing percussion. The Cape Breton style evolved at community functions like parties and weddings, and the island’s fiddlers still prefer a driving, danceable, strongly rhythmic approach–stuttering grace notes, punchy double-stops, and piercing, unorthodox tunings–over the showstopping high-velocity displays currently popular among Celtic folk revivalists. ![]() The fiddle music of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island gets its character from the Scottish immigrants who settled the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries–in fact, many traditions that have all but disappeared in Scotland are still vital there. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.
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