Maggie's Music Recording Artists featured on Maggie's Music Sampler 2 are: AL Petteway & Amy White;Bonnie Rideout; Hesperus Traditional & Early Music Ensemble; Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts; City of Washington Pipe Band; Ken Kolodner; Jody Marshall; Maggie Sansone; Ceoltoiri Celtic Ensemble; Robin Bullock; Sue Richards.
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AL PETTEWAY & AMY WHITE are an award-winning contemporary acoustic duo who create new music for a new generation! It's a brilliant convergence of Celtic, with hints of progressive Bluegrass, Rock, Country, Blues, Jazz and Classical idioms featuring acoustic guitar, mandolin, piano, Irish bouzouki, vocals and world percussion. CDs: Golden Wing* (vocals), Acoustic Journey*. More CDs featuring Al are Caledon Wood, Midsummer Moon, Whispering Stones, The Waters & The Wild and the Christmas recording A Scottish Christmas (with Bonnie Rideout and
Maggie Sansone).
BONNIE RIDEOUT is one of the finest Scottish fiddlers of our time with "dazzling fiddle playing from an authority in her genre." (BILLBOARD). A three-time National Scottish fiddle champion, she tours throughout the USA and Europe and has been featured on CBS-TV's "Sunday Morning," NPR's "Morning Edition," "Performance Today," and "The Thistle & Shamrock." CDs: Scottish Fire*, A Scottish Christmas*, Scottish Rant* ( with City of Washington Pipe Band), Gi' me Elbow Room (Parent's Choice Gold Winner), Kindred Spirits*, Celtic Circles, Soft May Morn, Scottish Reflections.
CEOLTOIRI Celtic Ensemble (pronounced "kyul-tory," "musicians" in Irish Gaelic) has won the praise of the Washington Post for its "virtuosity and spirited performance." The band includes Connie McKenna, guitar and vocals; Karen Ashbrook, hammered dulcimer, Irish flute and whistle, Sue Richards, Celtic harp and special guests that includes some of the finest Irish musicians performing today. CDs: Women of Ireland*, Silver Apples of the Moon, Celtic Lace.
CITY OF WASHINGTON PIPE BAND are known for their spellbinding precision and won First Place in the World Pipe Band and World Drums Corps Championships in Glasgow, Scotland (1999). Joined by Scottish fiddle champion Bonnie Rideout they perform Highland bagpipe music in innovative arrangements with Highland pipes, small-pipes, drums, fiddle, viola, cittern, guitar and bodhran. CD: Scottish Rant*.
HESPERUS is a early and traditional music ensemble that includes Tina Chancey on Bass viola da gamba, fiddle & recorder; Scott Reiss on recorders, pennywhistle and hammered dulcimer and Grant Herried on lute and early guitars. From the stages of America's Lincoln and Kennedy Centers to Germany, Peru and Singapore, Hesperus is one of the nation's first, and most important performers of "chamber folk" music bringing the energy and spirit of traditional music to virtuoso performances on folk and early musical instruments. They are frequent performers at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. CDs: Colonial America*, Early American Roots* and Celtic Roots* (with Bonnie Rideout).
KAREN ASHBROOK & PAUL OORTS - Irish/Belgium duo features Karen on Irish flute, pennywhistle and hammered dulcimer and Belgium musician Paul Oorts on guitar, cittern and musette accordion. Karen, author of Playing the hammered dulcimer in the Irish Tradition (Oak Pub) also performs solo with Ceoltoiri Celtic Ensemble (see above). CD: include Celtic Café*. Karen's solo CDs are Hills of Erin and Knock on the Door.
KEN KOLODNER is one of the finest and most influential hammered dulcimer players as well as a respected old time fiddler. From Appalachia jigs and reels to French Canadian waltzes, hear traditional music that swings. Ken has toured throughout North America and Europe for over twenty years both solo and with the trio Helicon (with flutist, Chris Norman and guitarist Robin Bullock) and Greenfire (with fiddler Laura Risk). CD: Journey to the Heartland*.
SUE RICHARDS is a four-time National Scottish harp champion considere
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