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Paddy's Pub Irish music sessions
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Groups and
Performers
Cuckoo
Moon - now performing again as a duo, Kate Adams and Cathy
Arsenault are notable singer-songwriters whose rootsy folk music celebrates
life through thoughtful and original songwriting and arrangements.
- Old-style fiddle, mandolin, guitar,
voice, traditional and original songs, and infectious energy.
Heather Kelday -
With or without A Band
of Owls, and Barefoot or not, Heather brings a
strong voice, multi-instrumental talents, and lyrical passion
for the natural world to her blend of folk, jazz, blues and bluegrass.
t@b -
Ariana Nasr and Andy Flinn, vastly talented polymetric musicians
(check out their site) now living in Wolfville
Rise
Up Shannon - Fiddler/singer Denise Aspinall, singer/guitarist
Aran Silmeryn and Mike McMahon on bodhran
TripALady -
bring together t@b and Rise Up Shannon, and you get a diverse crew
of pop songs, as played inside, outside and beside a streamlined,
rock-tinged haze of Celtic dance.
Cheryl
Gaudet - singer/songwriter
Rust
Bucket and Mike Aube - groove-folk trio from Wolfville
Kimberley
Smith - singer-songwriter
Don
Osburn - well-known Valley singer-songwriter and guitar
player extraordinaire; CD Small Fine Pleasures (1999)
Ken
Shorley - hand drummer, teacher, composer
WellSpring -
Celtic group featuring veteran musicians Denise Aspinall on fiddle,
Tom Berry on dulcimer and guitar, and Nicholas Tipney, cittern,
fiddle and bodhran.
Sara and Kamila -
singing songwriting sisters
Daniel
Heikalo - folk, classical, world-music, and rock musician,
composer, recording artist, sound designer, and technician. Recording
studio.
Lochaber -
a dynamic, 5-piece Celtic band led by fiddler Christie Hodder
Mud
Creek Boys: veteran
pickers J.P. Huang, Ian Spooner and Peter Williams.
Ensemble
à Part - medieval music, traditional French
songs and "Faux-klore"; François Côté,
Mike Charlton, Michael Mckay, Jude Pelley, and Cathy Porter
Greg Muttart -
Singer-songwriter with several albums to his credit
Bob Ardern -
folk singer, songwriter, guitarist now in Lunenburg
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Founding
Blomidon Folk Board Members:
Bob Connon
Bob has been playing
guitar and singing folk and traditional music for over 35 years. In
the mid-seventies, while he was living in Ireland, he began
playing Irish traditional music on the mandolin. Although
his main interest is in traditional Irish and Old Time music,
he also enjoys playing blues and fingerstyle guitar. Bob owns
and runs Dogface Records in
Wolfville, and is one of the main forces behind the Paddy's
Pub Sessions.
Heather Holm
Accordionist Heather
Holm was a quarter of Cuckoo
Moon,
half of the Celtic /Maritime traditional duo Salt and Heather,
and a founding (former) member of Ensemble à Part. She
created and still maintains this web site, though she now lives
on Nova Scotia's South Shore where she runs a
web design business, holmpage.com.
From time to time, she appears with violinist
Bev Shaw and/or pennywhistler Joshua Msika, and enjoys accompanying
students at École
de la Rive-Sud and playing at events at the South
Shore Waldorf School.
Jack McDonald
Jack was the founding energy behind Night
Kitchen. He plays guitar and mandolin and is a talented
songwriter. He enjoys jamming along on Celtic tunes and just
about anything else. His CD Domestic
Acoustic (2005) features his original songs performed
by a Who's Who of Valley musicians.
Rick MacNab
Blomidon Folk was originally
Rick's brainchild. Rick has been a popular figure on the
local folk music scene for many years. He is a songwriter of
originality and depth, with finely wrought lyrics and melodies,
complex and expressive work on guitar, mandolin and banjo, and
a warm, humorous stage presence. Rick has appeared on CBC's Atlantic
Airwaves with Natalie MacMaster.
Rick
believes that "the most versatile instrument is the human mind, and
in fact we are prisoners of our own instruments."
Alan Wilkie
Al is a fine banjo player, guitarist
and singer. One of the Lustre Brothers with Don Osburn
and Brian Adams until he went off to study medicine, Al came
back to the Wolfville area and still plays on occasion.
He has a deep knowledge of traditional gospel music, and has
often led the extraordinarily popular Gospel Workshop at the
Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival.
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