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Local performers
/ teachers
This Monterey Bay area has many local performers
who are available for concerts, parties, weddings,
etc. Please help promote the celtic music tradition
by hiring them for your event!
Hillbillies
from Mars
Celtic, French, Quebecois, and American traditional
music with an inter-galactic twist. Available
for concerts, dances, parties, and other celebrations.
email: Daniel@HillbillliesFromMars.com
Molly's
Revenge specializes in the traditional
music of Ireland, Scotland and England, with
occasional side trips to other parts of Europe
plus some of our own compositions. The instruments
we play include Scottish Highland Pipes, Scottish
small pipes, mandolin, bouzouki, banjo, guitar,
whistles, flute and bodhran.
email: mollys_revenge@hotmail.com
David Brewer, gives lessons on pipes
and whistles. Email: pipeyspice@hotmail.com.
Art Friedman, irish and old time fiddle
teacher/performer. 650-224-5604. friedman_art@yahoo.com
Scot
Peden
He plays for party's of all sorts, and has a
modern outfit, and a 16th century outfit, for
renaissance or medieval events and weddings.
He also plays a variety of Irish Music, and
plays shuttle pipes also, which are small and
quiet indoor bagpipes. He considers himself
a Celtic pyper, not just Scottish.
He gives lessons to those that are interested
in the Pipes, but not looking to go towards
the band experience. Based in Boulder Creek,
831 338-2306 scotpeden@cruzio.com
Dobhran
is an acoustic duo playing raditional and contemporary
Celtic music on wooden flute, classical guitar,
pennywhistle, and bodhran.
Dobhran's music is sometimes hauntingly beautiful,
sometimes lively, lilting, and playful. It provides
an ideal musical setting for weddings, receptions,
dinner parties, and other special occasions.
For more information or to request a demo tape,
contact Kim Fulton-Bennett at 831-457-8804 or
email: flute@earthlink.net
Crooked Road
Our band members are: Siobhan Travis, vocals, bodhran; Julie Horner, hammer dulcimer, mandolin, fiddle; David Chadwick, fiddle, guitar, banjo; Richard Ferry, flute, Irish whistle; Steve Kenworthy, fiddle, guitar. We're a traditional Irish band that is available for weddings, dances, parties, and St.Patrick's Day!
Band contact: 408-422-1463 or
209-768-8651
crooked.road@yahoo.com
www.crookedroad2ireland.com
Distant
Oaks is an award-winning music and dance
ensemble dedicated to the representation and
continuation of the exciting Celtic and early
European musical traditions. Based in the San
Francisco Bay Area, Distant Oaks features family
members Deborah White (vocals, guitar, citole,
cittern, fretted dulcimer), Jared White (recorders,
whistles, krummhorn, Scottish smallpipes, Border
pipes, bodhrán), and Shayne White (Celtic
harp, Medieval harp, stepdancing). Since its
inception in 1992, Distant Oaks has performed
at a wide variety of venues throughout the Western
United States, Scotland, and Ireland.
For more information, contact deborah@distantoaks.com
John Lavelle, offering button accordion lessons, can be contacted at:
papa_lavelle@yahoo.com His phone
number is 408-269-1752. He is ready to take on
students immediately.
Dance
Around Molly is a Santa Cruz based trio
that offers up traditional Irish music on fiddle,
tenorbanjo, button box, whistle, mandolin and
guitar, plus female vocals in English and Irish
(Gaelic). Lively tunes and gorgeous songs galore
for all occasions. For more info, click on the "Dance Around Molly" link at: http://www.folkplanet.com,
or contact Janet at: dam@folkplanet.com
Nasatir
School of Percussion: ...percussion website
of the Nasatir School of Percussion, located
in San Francisco's East Bay (Castro Valley).
Bodhran lessons available.
The Monterey Bay Scottish Bagpipers Research Group
Irv C. Rogers, Michael Bench, Kip Morais: We promote, teach and support bagpipers in the Monterey Bay area of California. We love playing bagpipes and helping each other and others to become better pipers. Our members include pipers aging from 17 to 75.
John Weed
I offer lessons for first time students to advanced
fiddle techniques (bowing, ornamentation, and improvisation). I teach
several folk genres with an emphasis on Irish, Old-Time American, and
Bluegrass fiddle, but I've also taught Scottish, French Canadian, and
Classical as well. As much as I hate to admit, I was classically trained,
and have just over 20 years experience (but who's counting?). I am able to
teach sight-reading, theory, ear-training, and chord structure depending on
student interest and desire.
John Weed
john@mollys-revenge.com
(831) 818-5021
Sweetfire: Monterey based duo performing music in the Celtic tradition,
and including a sampling of American Folk and original compositions.
Features Shannon Miller, vocalist, and Laurel Thomsen,
violinist/violist, and often guest musicians featured on harp, guitar,
and percussion. Sweetfire is available for concerts, parties, weddings
and other formal or casual events. Please contact Sweetfire at
http://www.sweetfiremusic.com
Laurel Thomsen: Violin and Viola instruction in Classical, American
Folk, and World Music genres. Also offering instruction in the Suzuki
method and improvisation. 10 years teaching experience. My teaching
methods focus on creating an ease and freedom of expression through
working with the natural biomechanics of the body and properly training
the ear and the mind. My teaching emphasizes all aspect of right and
left hand technique, posture, and both music reading and playing by
ear. Based in Monterey, California.
Please contact Laurel Thomsen:
laurel@sweetfiremusic.com or
831-224-0913.
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Jana Heller
Grumbling Ginger play original songs in a Celtic-flavoured Folk/Rock style. Their shows recreate the atmosphere of the British Folk Club music scene. They use a variety of instruments including Guitar, Dulcimer, Mandolin, Doumbek and Bodhran. Beautiful vocal harmonies and humorous story telling are also part of their performance.The band began as a duo around 2001 and now performs with up to five members depending upon the venue. The current core members are Jana Heller on vocals, Guitar, Dulcimer and Bodhran, Andy Gilhooley on Doumbek, Bodhran, Laptop and Mandolin and Kimberley Pryor on vocals.Lead singer and songwriter Jana Heller’s CD Laughing in Crime is available on Cycle Records (UK release).
Contact: info@janaheller.com
Website: www.janaheller.com
Lars Johannesson
I play and teach flute (modern, celtic, baroque) and perform
often with the Gourd music crowd.. Shelley & Barry Phillips,
William Coulter, Neal Hellman.
http://www.larsjohannesson.com/music
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