Music from the Ancient Celtic lands in celebration of St. Patrick's. March 20, 2008

Thursday, March 20th
MAGGIE SANSONE,
SUE RICHARDS
& ANDREA HOAG
Tickets $18.00
America's Premier hammered dulcimer player, Maggie Sansone, Grammy nominee Andrea Hoag on fiddle and 4-time Scottish harp champion Sue Richards join together for an exciting and heartfelt presentation of music from the Ancient Celtic lands in celebration of St. Patrick's.
Maggie Sansone (hammered dulcimer): America’s premier hammered dulcimer player, the percussive melodious sounds of her wooden mallets dancing across seventy five wire strings bring a special beauty to her music. Maggie has been featured on CBS-TV Sunday Morning, and NPR’s All Things Considered, Performance Today, The Thistle & Shamrock. Recent awards include the ANNIE award for Performing Arts (Anne Arundel Country Cultural Arts Foundation) and the WAMMIE award Celtic Instrumentalist (Washington Area Music Association). Well known for her productions of Celtic and Christmas shows, Maggie has authored eight music books for Mel Bay Publications and included in their 2000 Hammered Dulcimer Anthology of the top hammered dulcimer players in the USA. Maggie is founder and CEO of Maggie’s Music record label based in Shady Side, Maryland, which distributes over fifty recordings worldwide. The label has received eight "Record Label of the Year" WAMMIE awards (Washington Area Music Association) and praised by Fiona Ritchie, host of NPR's The Thistle & Shamrock who said, “Maggie's Music is a gathering place of much inspired and Celtic rooted music in the USA.”
(www.maggiesansone.com)
The evocative power of the Celtic harp has no greater genius than Sue Richards who was called "one of America's brightest stars" by the folk magazine DIRTY LINEN. She has performed for President Bill Clinton at the White House, is a multi-Wammie winner, four-time National Scottish harp champion, teacher and adjudicator in harp competitions nationwide, and is also a member of the renowned bands Ceoltoiri and Ensemble Galilei. Her second recording, Morning Aire, won the coveted Wammie Award for "Album of the Year." (ww.maggiesmusic.com/mmsr.html)
Andrea Hoag's fiddle playing is passionate and lyrical, complex and evocative. Her bold flights of imagination are firmly grounded in many years of traditional playing. Andrea is one of North America's foremost performers of traditional Swedish music, and is a highly respected fiddler in several American, English, and Celtic styles. A noteworthy composer, improvisor and vocalist, Andrea is a musical matchmaker who treats her sources with both reverence and playfulness. “Call it a fiddle, call it a violin— in [her] hands it is simply a marvelous string instrument that fits into myriad traditions and fuels many cross-cultural fusions,” wrote Richard Harrington of The Washington Post in a review of Andrea’s 1999 solo/collaborative CD, Fire & Water. Highly respected by her musical peers from across the spectrum of genres, she was named Best Traditional Folk Instrumentalist by the WAMMIES (2000). Grammy winner Cathy Fink calls Andrea's performance “a perfect evening . . . Her stage presence is delightful, her musicianship is superb...” (hoagkelleypilzer.com/Andrea%20Hoag.html)

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