Fiddling Cricket Concerts 
November 2008
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CANCELLED Kate
Lamont's beautiful, soulful, and evocative vocals are backed by the guitar,
dobro, percussion of Joshua Strodtman with Kate herself taken a turn on
ukelele and piano. There are touches of bluegrass and mountain music, but also
surreal soundscapes and touches of European chamber music and of Asia and
Africa. Their CD, Slow Pace Quickening which has an expanded band
including fiddle, cello, nass and banjo, is both outstanding and outstandingly
recorded. It fits no format I know of and crosses many boundaries.
http://www.blueprintmusic.com/ CANCELLED |
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Connie Doolan Quartet
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Connie Doolan has appeared for Fiddling Cricket many times. With classical, jazz, and musical theater training, teaching and playing have always been Connie's living. As one of the principal vocalists of The Mighty Avalanche Choir, her beautiful soprano was heard in folk and Celtic arrangements for several years at the FC Annual Holiday Party. Later she also appeared in the group, Mehitabel, (with Sylvia Herold of Cats and Jammers and Patrice Haan from Leftover Dreams). Over the last two years, Connie has concentrated on her own group, presenting a wide range of material from standards to folk, releasing her debut CD, Haunt Your Heart, in 2006. It features beautifully arranged renditions of material ranging from Tom Waits to bluesy versions of traditional American and Irish songs, to favorite jazz standards, swing, folk, and quirky pop hits. Accompanying and augmenting Connie's vocals will be the entirely elegant and lyrical playing of Julian Smedley on violin and viola (formerly of The Hot Club of San Francisco), Mike Wallenberg on jazz guitar and Steven Strauss on upright bass and ukulele, just as they do on the CD. http://conniedoolanquartet.blogspot.com |
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Seattle based Mark Graham and Orville Johnson are widely respected as individual roots musicians who, for the last 13 years, have also teamed up as The Kings of Mongrel Folk, to bring to the world a strange and wonderful mixture of virtuoso harmonica and clarinet, soulful blues, hot guitar pickin', sweet country vocals, and, perhaps best known, wry humor. Mark's harmonica and clarinet are well known to fans of Kevin Burke's Open House and his sardonic skewering of contemporary life in such classics as "I see your Aura and it's ugly" and "Zen Gospel singing" have been cult classics for years. Orville's guitar, slide playing, dobro, and powerful blues vocals have seasoned over 100 recordings, soundtracks and commercials. Together they truly are The Kings of Mongrel Folk and we welcome them back after several years for another visit to Fiddling Cricket from their Kingdom of Mongrolia (actually Seattle). http://www.mongrelfolk.com/castle.html |
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Last Updated: 11/14/08