WS554: Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas and King Wilkie

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DATE : Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:43:41 -0500
Entered in Database : 2009-12-30 04:43:41
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ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS is a musical partnership between Scotland's premier fiddle ambassador and the sizzlingly-talented young California cellist. Fraser, acclaimed by the San Francisco Examiner as "the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling," has a concert and recording career spanning 30 years, with a long list of awards, accolades, television credits, and feature performances on top movie soundtracks (Last of the Mohicans, Titanic). Natalie Haas, a graduate of the Julliard School of Music, wasn't even born when Alasdair was winning national fiddle competitions on the other side of the Atlantic. The duo’s new CD is In the Moment.

KING WILKIE is an aggressive alternative bluegrass band who has made a career of defying expectations. Now based in New York City, the band’s third album is King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers , a concept CD where a fictional world of musical siblings and other characters. Guests on the CD include Abigail Washburn, Peter Rowan, David Bromberg, Robyn Hitchcock, and John McEuen. It’s an incredible artistic statement from a band that has come along way since winning the IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year in 2004.

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