Celtic music scheduled at the Dahmen
Barn on October 19, 2013.
Coming From Portland, Oregon, where Celtic music
flourishes, Brongaene Griffin, Elizabeth Nicholson and Bob Soper will play at
7:30 pm at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown on Saturday, October
19, 2013. The cost is $10 at the door.
Brongaene Griffin is a delightful contemporary fiddler
steeped in the rich Irish tradition. A prize winning student of the legendary
Kevin Burke, Bronnie learned her Irish from the best. She then went to the well
of the tradition, spending several years in Ireland, busking and listening to
the great tune keepers and lore masters.
Harpist/singer Elizabeth Nicholson is at the
vanguard of a new generation of Celtic musicians. Considered among the top
American interpreters of Irish traditional music for harp, her studies have
also included classical, Paraguayan, and medieval harp, and she has stretched
the traditional boundaries of the instrument into rock music and country
blues.
Bob Soper is counted among Portland Oregon’s most
astonishingly versatile multi-instrumentalists. A drummer from a young
age who also studied classical Indian percussion at the Ali Akbar College of
Music, he went on to learn the Irish fiddle, ultimately becoming one the
Northwest’s most sought after players.
Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is on highway 195 in the big
white Barn behind the famous iron wheel fence. The fully accessible
faculty is open Thursday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm and has no daily
admission fee. Information: www.artisanbarn.org
or 509-229-3414.
