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Arnolds Clothing & Boot Winter Sale
March Madness Sale Take 25 % off all in stock Winter Clothing for men & women. Carhartt & Woolrich Coats, Sweaters Flannels Lined jeans Slippers Hats & Gloves. Muck Boots also on sale !
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Fridays At Alchemy, Murphys
Fridays At Alchemy, Murphys - 209-728-0700
Location: Alchemy, Murphys - 209-728-0700 Description: Matt Cullen delivers style with pop, country and jazz vocal performances from the 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond every Friday from 5:30-8 pm. The music is free, and there's room to dance. Call for more information.
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Melodrama Performance, Valley Springs
Melodrama Performance, Valley Springs - 209-772-1000
Description: Dinner Show. "Big Boy In A LIttle Mess" or "Sister Mary Get Your Gun" at the Veteran's Memorial Hall. Tickets are $20/person for dinner and show. Doors open at 6pm, Dinner at 6:45pm, Show at 7:45pm. Tickets can be purchased at Health Habit in the Terrace Plaza in Valley Springs. Call for more information.
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Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas At Black Bart
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
Scottish fiddle and cello music of unrivaled beauty, eloquence, and passion
“ … you would think they’d been playing together for centuries. While his fiddle dances, her cello throbs darkly or plucks puckishly. Then [Haas] opens her cello’s throat, joining Fraser in soaring sustains, windswept refrains, and sudden, jazzy explosions. Their sound is as urbane as a Manhattan midnight, and as wild as a Clakmannan [Scotland] winter.”
— Boston Globe
"Fraser, one of the most respected of all exponents of the Scots fiddle, would look long and hard to find a more appropriate cellist as a partner. Haas can switch just as effortlessly as Fraser from a gentle singing tone to driving, dancing melody. A positive joy."
—The Scotsman
The musical partnership between Alasdair Fraser, long regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador, and the sizzlingly-talented young California cellist Natalie Haas may not seem an obvious one. 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). Fraser has been sponsored by the British Council to represent Scotland’s music internationally, and received the Scottish Heritage Center Service Award for outstanding contributions to Scottish culture and traditions.
The 25-year-old Haas, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, wasn’t even born when Alasdair was winning national fiddle competitions on the other side of the Atlantic. But this seemingly unlikely pairing is the fulfillment of a long-standing musical dream for Fraser, whose cutting-edge musical explorations took him full circle to find a cellist who could help him return the cello to its historical role at the rhythmic heart of Scottish dance music. Natalie Haas was just 11 when she first attended Fraser’s Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School in California. She responded to Fraser’s challenge to find and release the cello’s rhythmic soul, and four years later, when Natalie was just 15, Fraser and Haas played their first gig together. Now regularly touring with Fraser and creating a buzz at festivals and in concert halls throughout Europe and North America, Natalie is in the vanguard of young cellists who are re-defining the role of the cello in traditional music. “Cellists are coming out of the woodwork to study with Natalie, to learn how she creates a groove and a whole chunky rhythm section,” says Fraser. “It’s inspiring to hear the cello unleashed from its orchestral shackles!”
One of the inspirations is the duo’s debut recording, Fire & Grace, which displays dazzling teamwork, driving, dancing rhythms, and the duo’s shared passion for improvising on the melody and the groove of Scottish tunes. The two instruments duck and dive around each other, swapping melodic and harmonic lines, and trading rhythmic riffs. The recording won not only critical acclaim, but also the coveted the Scots Trad Music “Album of the Year” award, the Scottish equivalent of a Grammy. Fire & Grace, and the duo’s other CDs In the Moment, Highlander’s Farewell, and Fraser’s many other recordings are on his own Culburnie Records label.
Workshops, Master Classes, and Residency Activities
Through two summer programs that he founded nearly two decades ago, the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School in California and a week-long course on the Isle of Skye, Alasdair has inspired hundreds of aspiring and accomplished musicians.
Alasdair is available for master classes and workshops for performers of all ages, with an emphasis on the tradition and techniques of Scottish fiddle music. The classes can be for fiddlers only, or can include musicians playing any stringed instrument, with special focus on playing by ear, improvising, and learning to play as part of an ensemble.
When: Friday, March 2, 2012, 7:30pm
Where: Black Bart Playhouse, Murphys, CA
Ticket info: $22 advance, available from Brown Paper Tickets
(www.brownpapertickets.com or 24/7 Ticket Hotline: 800/ 838-3006) or
$25 day of show
JUST ADDED: Workshop, Saturday, March 3, 10am – 12:30pm
Black Bart Playhouse, Murphys
In cooperation with Murphys Creek Theatre
$35 per student (minimum enrollment of 30 students)
To register, please send email to mcbooking@gmail.com
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