Roots Academy for Early and Traditional Music is a collaboration between two of the area's leading specialists in Early and Traditional European styles on a variety of instruments, and in the study of singing styles as well. Kevin Carr, piper, fiddler, story teller and accomplished instrumentalist in a variety of styles and Pat O'Scannell, singer, early wind and string player and former musician and music director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for over 25 years are combining forces to present a variety of classes, workshops and concerts devoted to promoting traditional and early music study in our area.
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For further information about these and other classes and concerts offered by Kevin and Pat, please use the following link to find the ROOTS FaceBook page: (click ROOTS icon below)
READ BELOW FOR DETAILS, time and place.
For further information about these and other classes and concerts offered by Kevin and Pat, please use the following link to find the ROOTS FaceBook page: (click ROOTS icon below)
Click on ROOTS icon to go to registration page of ROOTS site. You can also reserve tickets for concerts this way.
The Academy Faculty:
Kevin Carr and Pat O'Scannell
Kevin Carr Fiddler, Piper, teller of tales, Teacher
KC is a soulful and exciting multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, various bagpipes and other stringed instruments, whose style draws from Irish, Quebecois, Appalachian and bagpiping roots. His performances are a mix of stories, fiddle and pipe tunes from traditional sources around the world. The sounds of Galician, Irish, Slovakian, French or Scottish pipes often punctuate his shows.
Kevin has taught at Festival of American fiddle tunes, Alsadair Fraser's Sierra fiddle camp, Puget Sound Guitar workshop, Lark Camp and a host of other music camps across the country, and performed in concerts and at dances in Europe, Canada and the USA for thirty years, both solo and with The Hillbillies from Mars ( eclectic trad), Les Tetes de Violon ( quebecois ), Wake the Dead ( Celtic Grateful Dead), and with Men of Worth's Celtic Christmas. He also currently plays with the Family Carr, which includes his wife Josie Mendelsohn, and son and daughter, Daniel and Molly Carr.
KC is a soulful and exciting multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, various bagpipes and other stringed instruments, whose style draws from Irish, Quebecois, Appalachian and bagpiping roots. His performances are a mix of stories, fiddle and pipe tunes from traditional sources around the world. The sounds of Galician, Irish, Slovakian, French or Scottish pipes often punctuate his shows.
Kevin has taught at Festival of American fiddle tunes, Alsadair Fraser's Sierra fiddle camp, Puget Sound Guitar workshop, Lark Camp and a host of other music camps across the country, and performed in concerts and at dances in Europe, Canada and the USA for thirty years, both solo and with The Hillbillies from Mars ( eclectic trad), Les Tetes de Violon ( quebecois ), Wake the Dead ( Celtic Grateful Dead), and with Men of Worth's Celtic Christmas. He also currently plays with the Family Carr, which includes his wife Josie Mendelsohn, and son and daughter, Daniel and Molly Carr.
Pat O'Scannell Vocalist, Multi-Instrumentalist Teacher
"...gripping arrangements", (Mittelbayrische Zeitung)
"The pieces as a whole had a compositional sense about them which I admire very much...reminds me a bit of the tune Bizet uses..." (Bill McLaughlin, host of St. Paul Sunday Morning)
"You whip up a different kind of storm," (Bill McLaughlin, St. Paul Sunday Morning)
These are a few of the comments regarding O'Scannell's musical contributions to
the field of Early Music, as an arranger, receiving critical acclaim as director & performer for the Terra Nova Consort. Appearances both at the prestigious Regensburg festival where the group made its European debut in 2000, and in Indiana, Vermont, Victoria BC, California, Guanajuato and City of Mexico, Milwaukie, Kentucky and has returned to both Houston and Washington D.C. for a second time.
O’Scannell was the founding director and instructor for Southern Oregon’s Collegium Musicum program, co-sponsored by the Music Department and Continuing Education Departments. The course, subtitled: Playing Early Music, provided a hands on environment for students at various levels to learn about performance practice in Medieval and Renaissance music, while gaining some technique on instruments that are new to them, or on which they already have some facility. The program was in place from 2003-2007.
O'Scannell's experience teaching various facets of Early Music include classes offered through the Elderhostel, Senior Ventures, Shakespeare Studies and Continuing Education programs at Southern Oregon University. She has served on a jury of instructors for the SOU Music Department as well, and has been included in the Arts in Education and other State sponsored programs as well as been on the roster for Seattle's Early Music educational outreach program.
"...gripping arrangements", (Mittelbayrische Zeitung)
"The pieces as a whole had a compositional sense about them which I admire very much...reminds me a bit of the tune Bizet uses..." (Bill McLaughlin, host of St. Paul Sunday Morning)
"You whip up a different kind of storm," (Bill McLaughlin, St. Paul Sunday Morning)
These are a few of the comments regarding O'Scannell's musical contributions to
the field of Early Music, as an arranger, receiving critical acclaim as director & performer for the Terra Nova Consort. Appearances both at the prestigious Regensburg festival where the group made its European debut in 2000, and in Indiana, Vermont, Victoria BC, California, Guanajuato and City of Mexico, Milwaukie, Kentucky and has returned to both Houston and Washington D.C. for a second time.
O’Scannell was the founding director and instructor for Southern Oregon’s Collegium Musicum program, co-sponsored by the Music Department and Continuing Education Departments. The course, subtitled: Playing Early Music, provided a hands on environment for students at various levels to learn about performance practice in Medieval and Renaissance music, while gaining some technique on instruments that are new to them, or on which they already have some facility. The program was in place from 2003-2007.
O'Scannell's experience teaching various facets of Early Music include classes offered through the Elderhostel, Senior Ventures, Shakespeare Studies and Continuing Education programs at Southern Oregon University. She has served on a jury of instructors for the SOU Music Department as well, and has been included in the Arts in Education and other State sponsored programs as well as been on the roster for Seattle's Early Music educational outreach program.
ROOTS Academy Programs (most recent will be displayed on top)
Roots Academy Scottish Festival
In January, as the witer stretches out, one's thoughts naturally turn to Scotland, as Robert Burn's birthday approaches.This year the Roots Academy, supported by Rogue World Ensemble, has assembled a three event Scottish Festival, to fill the cold evenings with the warmth of ballads, border pipes, fiddles and the sound of timeless strathspeys and reels. See details below.
If you do want to reserve for any of these events, please do so by contacting Kevin at: (541) 301-5306. All events will be held at the Headwaters building, across from the Unitarian Fellowship in Ashland at 84 Fourth St., and will begin at 7:30 pm. Entrance will be by a $20 donation / $15 if you are wearing a kilt.All proceeds to the musicians.
If you do want to reserve for any of these events, please do so by contacting Kevin at: (541) 301-5306. All events will be held at the Headwaters building, across from the Unitarian Fellowship in Ashland at 84 Fourth St., and will begin at 7:30 pm. Entrance will be by a $20 donation / $15 if you are wearing a kilt.All proceeds to the musicians.
Press Release for ROOTS Academy Scottish Festival January 2014
Roots Academy is a program of the Rogue World Ensemble
All concerts begin at 7:30 pm, and take place at the Headwaters Environmental Center located at: 84 Fourth Street, across from the Unitarian Fellowship.
1. Thursday, January 16 David Brewer and Rebecca Lomnicky
Just returned from living in Scotland, duo performers David Brewer of Molly's Revenge, & Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion, Rebecca Lomnicky will be performing an evening of captivating Scottish music which bridges the gap between the fiddle & bagpipe music of Scotland in two worlds united.
.Rebecca Lomnicky and David Brewer each have spent copious amounts of time delving into the traditions of their respective instruments, living and studying in the highlands of Scotland, and have forged their duo in the spirit of merging these two similar but very different worlds to create a new seamless sound which is both kinetic, and full of passion.
David Brewer is a multi-instrumentalist who has toured with the Scottish super-group The Old Blind Dogs, and with Molly's Revenge across the US, the UK, Canada, China, Australia, has been a special guest of the six-time Grammy winning group The Chieftains, and was a key musician for the sound track of the PBS documentary, "Andrew Jackson, Good, Evil, and the Presidency". David accompanies Rebecca's award winning fiddling on guitar, the Irish penny-whistle, bodhran frame-drum, but primarily the Scottish bagpipes, on which he is unarguably one of the most energetic and charismatic performers of the instrument in the world today.
Rebecca Lomnicky began playing classical violin and piano at age five, discovered Scottish fiddle music a few short years later, and in 2005 won the Junior Division of the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Competition. Following that victory, she recorded her first CD, The Call, praised by "Dirty Linen" magazine as "technically masterful, and wonderfully melodic." In 2009, Rebecca won the 20th Annual Glenfiddich International Scottish Fiddle Championship held at Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Scotland. The invitation only championship - seen as the Grammys of the fiddling world- is widely regarded as the most prestigious in Scottish fiddle. She has performed in Scotland, Ireland, Italy, China, and across the US, has been featured on the BBC radio show, Take the Floor, and in 2009, recorded her second CD, Inspired, with David Brewer. Presently, Rebecca is studying music and anthropology at Cornell University, & the University of Edinburgh, and the duo tours the Celtic festival circuit between semesters. Catch their show and you'll leave energized.
www.davidbrewermusic.com
www.rebeccalomnicky.com
2. Thursday, January 23 Dick Hensold, pipes Andrea Beaton, fiddle & Dirk Freymuth, guitar
Dick Hensold is one of the foremost Northumbrian smallpipers in America, and also is expert on Lowland Scottish pipes, and Swedish sackpipa.
Andrea Beaton is one of the foremost young Cape Breton scottish fiddlers today, coming from a long family tradition of playing fiddle.
This concert of traditional Cape Breton Scottish fiddling and piping features Andrea Beaton, joined by piper Dick Hensold and guitarist Dirk Freymuth. The concert will focus on the musical and cultural interplay between the fiddle and pipes, two instruments that have had a long, close, and mutually influential relationship in Cape Breton.
Andrea Beaton, “a powerful Cape Breton fiddler, composer and step dancer”, is one of the most accomplished and well-known fiddlers from the newest crop of Cape Breton musicians. Andrea's lively music is characterized by her powerful bow, the drive and swing of her timing and the crispness of her attack. Listening to Andrea's music is overwhelmingly uplifting, and she delights audiences wherever she plays. She learned her tradition from her family. Her father, Kinnon, is one of today's most influential Cape Breton fiddlers; her mother, Betty Beaton, is one of the great piano accompanists of her generation. Her uncle, Buddy MacMaster, is the most revered fiddler on Cape Breton Island, and her cousin, Natalie MacMaster, is an enormously popular entertainer on the fiddle. Her music is at once her own and deeply rooted in the tradition associated with the Mabou Coal Mines in Cape Breton. She has released 5 solo CDs, one of which won the 2010 East Coast Music Association “instrumental recording of the year” award.
3. Friday January 31: ‘For Auld Lang Syne, an evening of Scottish Song’ with Kevin Carr and
Pat O’Scannell.
Kevin and Pat will present an evening of Scottish song, using regional instruments such as the parlor pipes, the fiddle and the tin whistle, the bodhran and the bones. Both will sing a variety of songs, ballads, ditties, mouth music and songs with texts by Robert Burns. A perfect mid-winter celebration of Scottish heritage.
Kevin Carr is a soulful and exciting multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, various bagpipes and other stringed instruments, whose style draws from Irish, Quebecois, Appalachian and bagpiping roots. His performances are a mix of stories, fiddle and pipe tunes from traditional sources around the world. The sounds of Galician, Irish, Slovakian, French or Scottish pipes often punctuate his shows.
Kevin has taught at Festival of American fiddle tunes, Alsadair Fraser's Sierra fiddle camp, Puget Sound Guitar workshop, Lark Camp and a host of other music camps across the country, and performed in concerts and at dances in Europe, Canada and the USA for thirty years, both solo and with The Hillbillies from Mars ( eclectic trad), Les Tetes de Violon ( quebecois ), Wake the Dead ( Celtic Grateful Dead), and with Men of Worth's Celtic Christmas. He also currently plays with the Family Carr, which includes his wife Josie Mendelsohn, and son and daughter, Daniel and Molly Carr.
Pat O’Scannell began touring the West Coast and B.C. Canada in the 1980’s with her band: CRIONA, performing music of Ireland and the British Isles. She is a whistle player of considerable skill, and a singer of expressiveness and breadth. She studied sean nos singing with Derry-born singer and uillean piper Danny McGinley, and studied Irish gaelic along the way with several native speakers, including Peter Moylan of Chonnemara. She had a single lesson in a bathroom at the Gaelic Institute with Mary Bergan, while she was at in Galway in 1987. She has worked with phenomenal piper Murray Huggins, and accomplished Celtic wire strung harp player Janet Naylor. In the 90’s she played with Brian Freeman and Jim Finnegan, with James Kiegher and ‘Men of Worth’, and with harpist Molly McKissick. She directed music for Tom Foley’s play: A Parcel From America, where she first played with Kevin Carr and Josie Mendelsohn. She worked with singer and banjo player Christy Deleney from Dublin, and box player Michael Beglan from County Cavin. She has produced four independent recordings of Irish music, her most recent ‘An Cailin Gaelach’ featuring songs in Irish Gaelic. She has played for the Peter Britt Festival, The Seattle Folks Life Festival, the Vancouver Folk Festival, Festival of the Islands and in Folk Clubs and venues from San Diego to Victoria B.C. She performs locally with Kevin Carr, Morgan O’Shaughnessey, Daniel Carr, Sean Connors and others. She worked with Kevin Burke and his ‘band of lads’ on a recording project in Portland in 2009. She worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 25 years as a musician and musical director. and founded a band that achieved international acclaim in the early part of the 21st C., releasing recordings in over 50 countries. Her music has been heard on NPR worldwide.
Tickets for all concerts are $20.00 by donation only, $15.00 if you wear a kilt ! Come early for ‘first come first served’ seating.
Roots Academy is a program of the Rogue World Ensemble
All concerts begin at 7:30 pm, and take place at the Headwaters Environmental Center located at: 84 Fourth Street, across from the Unitarian Fellowship.
1. Thursday, January 16 David Brewer and Rebecca Lomnicky
Just returned from living in Scotland, duo performers David Brewer of Molly's Revenge, & Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion, Rebecca Lomnicky will be performing an evening of captivating Scottish music which bridges the gap between the fiddle & bagpipe music of Scotland in two worlds united.
.Rebecca Lomnicky and David Brewer each have spent copious amounts of time delving into the traditions of their respective instruments, living and studying in the highlands of Scotland, and have forged their duo in the spirit of merging these two similar but very different worlds to create a new seamless sound which is both kinetic, and full of passion.
David Brewer is a multi-instrumentalist who has toured with the Scottish super-group The Old Blind Dogs, and with Molly's Revenge across the US, the UK, Canada, China, Australia, has been a special guest of the six-time Grammy winning group The Chieftains, and was a key musician for the sound track of the PBS documentary, "Andrew Jackson, Good, Evil, and the Presidency". David accompanies Rebecca's award winning fiddling on guitar, the Irish penny-whistle, bodhran frame-drum, but primarily the Scottish bagpipes, on which he is unarguably one of the most energetic and charismatic performers of the instrument in the world today.
Rebecca Lomnicky began playing classical violin and piano at age five, discovered Scottish fiddle music a few short years later, and in 2005 won the Junior Division of the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Competition. Following that victory, she recorded her first CD, The Call, praised by "Dirty Linen" magazine as "technically masterful, and wonderfully melodic." In 2009, Rebecca won the 20th Annual Glenfiddich International Scottish Fiddle Championship held at Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Scotland. The invitation only championship - seen as the Grammys of the fiddling world- is widely regarded as the most prestigious in Scottish fiddle. She has performed in Scotland, Ireland, Italy, China, and across the US, has been featured on the BBC radio show, Take the Floor, and in 2009, recorded her second CD, Inspired, with David Brewer. Presently, Rebecca is studying music and anthropology at Cornell University, & the University of Edinburgh, and the duo tours the Celtic festival circuit between semesters. Catch their show and you'll leave energized.
www.davidbrewermusic.com
www.rebeccalomnicky.com
2. Thursday, January 23 Dick Hensold, pipes Andrea Beaton, fiddle & Dirk Freymuth, guitar
Dick Hensold is one of the foremost Northumbrian smallpipers in America, and also is expert on Lowland Scottish pipes, and Swedish sackpipa.
Andrea Beaton is one of the foremost young Cape Breton scottish fiddlers today, coming from a long family tradition of playing fiddle.
This concert of traditional Cape Breton Scottish fiddling and piping features Andrea Beaton, joined by piper Dick Hensold and guitarist Dirk Freymuth. The concert will focus on the musical and cultural interplay between the fiddle and pipes, two instruments that have had a long, close, and mutually influential relationship in Cape Breton.
Andrea Beaton, “a powerful Cape Breton fiddler, composer and step dancer”, is one of the most accomplished and well-known fiddlers from the newest crop of Cape Breton musicians. Andrea's lively music is characterized by her powerful bow, the drive and swing of her timing and the crispness of her attack. Listening to Andrea's music is overwhelmingly uplifting, and she delights audiences wherever she plays. She learned her tradition from her family. Her father, Kinnon, is one of today's most influential Cape Breton fiddlers; her mother, Betty Beaton, is one of the great piano accompanists of her generation. Her uncle, Buddy MacMaster, is the most revered fiddler on Cape Breton Island, and her cousin, Natalie MacMaster, is an enormously popular entertainer on the fiddle. Her music is at once her own and deeply rooted in the tradition associated with the Mabou Coal Mines in Cape Breton. She has released 5 solo CDs, one of which won the 2010 East Coast Music Association “instrumental recording of the year” award.
3. Friday January 31: ‘For Auld Lang Syne, an evening of Scottish Song’ with Kevin Carr and
Pat O’Scannell.
Kevin and Pat will present an evening of Scottish song, using regional instruments such as the parlor pipes, the fiddle and the tin whistle, the bodhran and the bones. Both will sing a variety of songs, ballads, ditties, mouth music and songs with texts by Robert Burns. A perfect mid-winter celebration of Scottish heritage.
Kevin Carr is a soulful and exciting multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, various bagpipes and other stringed instruments, whose style draws from Irish, Quebecois, Appalachian and bagpiping roots. His performances are a mix of stories, fiddle and pipe tunes from traditional sources around the world. The sounds of Galician, Irish, Slovakian, French or Scottish pipes often punctuate his shows.
Kevin has taught at Festival of American fiddle tunes, Alsadair Fraser's Sierra fiddle camp, Puget Sound Guitar workshop, Lark Camp and a host of other music camps across the country, and performed in concerts and at dances in Europe, Canada and the USA for thirty years, both solo and with The Hillbillies from Mars ( eclectic trad), Les Tetes de Violon ( quebecois ), Wake the Dead ( Celtic Grateful Dead), and with Men of Worth's Celtic Christmas. He also currently plays with the Family Carr, which includes his wife Josie Mendelsohn, and son and daughter, Daniel and Molly Carr.
Pat O’Scannell began touring the West Coast and B.C. Canada in the 1980’s with her band: CRIONA, performing music of Ireland and the British Isles. She is a whistle player of considerable skill, and a singer of expressiveness and breadth. She studied sean nos singing with Derry-born singer and uillean piper Danny McGinley, and studied Irish gaelic along the way with several native speakers, including Peter Moylan of Chonnemara. She had a single lesson in a bathroom at the Gaelic Institute with Mary Bergan, while she was at in Galway in 1987. She has worked with phenomenal piper Murray Huggins, and accomplished Celtic wire strung harp player Janet Naylor. In the 90’s she played with Brian Freeman and Jim Finnegan, with James Kiegher and ‘Men of Worth’, and with harpist Molly McKissick. She directed music for Tom Foley’s play: A Parcel From America, where she first played with Kevin Carr and Josie Mendelsohn. She worked with singer and banjo player Christy Deleney from Dublin, and box player Michael Beglan from County Cavin. She has produced four independent recordings of Irish music, her most recent ‘An Cailin Gaelach’ featuring songs in Irish Gaelic. She has played for the Peter Britt Festival, The Seattle Folks Life Festival, the Vancouver Folk Festival, Festival of the Islands and in Folk Clubs and venues from San Diego to Victoria B.C. She performs locally with Kevin Carr, Morgan O’Shaughnessey, Daniel Carr, Sean Connors and others. She worked with Kevin Burke and his ‘band of lads’ on a recording project in Portland in 2009. She worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 25 years as a musician and musical director. and founded a band that achieved international acclaim in the early part of the 21st C., releasing recordings in over 50 countries. Her music has been heard on NPR worldwide.
Tickets for all concerts are $20.00 by donation only, $15.00 if you wear a kilt ! Come early for ‘first come first served’ seating.
Academy Directors Kevin Carr and Patricia Maureen O'Scannell
KEVIN CARR
fiddler, piper, teller of tales
Kevin is a soulful and exciting multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, various bagpipes and other stringed instruments, whose style draws from Irish, Québécois, Appalachian and bagpiping roots. His performances are a mix of stories, fiddle and pipe tunes from traditional sources around the world. The sounds of Galician, Irish, Slovakian, French or Scottish pipes often punctuate his shows.
Kevin has taught at Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Alasdair Fraser's Sierra Fiddle Camp, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Lark Camp and a host of other music camps across the country, and performed in concerts and at dances in Europe, Canada and the USA for over 30 years, both solo and with The Hillbillies from Mars (eclectic trad.), Les Têtes de Violon (Québécois), Wake the Dead (Celtic Grateful Dead), and with Men of Worth's Celtic Christmas. He also currently plays with the Family Carr, which includes his wife Josie Mendelsohn, and son and daughter, Daniel and Molly Carr.
PATRICIA MAUREEN O’SCANNELL, vocalist, whistles, recorders and other
historic reeds and winds, early bowed strings, hand percussion
Pat’s career has spanned three decades, during which time she has worked at the Old Globe Theater, The Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she was employed as specialist in historic styles as both a musician, musical director, composer and arranger for 25 years. She directed and founded the Terra Nova Consort, ensemble-in-residence at OSF for 17 years, which toured worldwide, and produced recordings released in over 50 countries. TNC played at the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, GE, the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato, MX, and at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Her programs have twice received national recognition on Millennium of Music in the 90’s with Fauvel, King of Vice! and later with Renaissance en Provence. As a celtic musician, Pat has played the Northwest Folklife Festival, the Vancouver Folk Festival, the B.C. Festival of the Islands, and other folk venues throughout the West Coast. She has appeared with Tomaseen Foley, Men of Worth, Kevin Carr, and many other notable musicians. Radio appearances include: Harmonia (IN), St. Paul Sunday (MN), West Coast Live (CA), In the Mode (CA), and an assortment of appearances on NPR in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, Britain and Germany, as well as throughout the U.S. She has taught at SOU through the Music Department where she founded its Collegium Musicum program, and in Elderhostel, Shakespeare Studies and Senior Ventures programs, as well as privately.
Read below about the first two concerts in our series:
fiddler, piper, teller of tales
Kevin is a soulful and exciting multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, various bagpipes and other stringed instruments, whose style draws from Irish, Québécois, Appalachian and bagpiping roots. His performances are a mix of stories, fiddle and pipe tunes from traditional sources around the world. The sounds of Galician, Irish, Slovakian, French or Scottish pipes often punctuate his shows.
Kevin has taught at Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Alasdair Fraser's Sierra Fiddle Camp, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Lark Camp and a host of other music camps across the country, and performed in concerts and at dances in Europe, Canada and the USA for over 30 years, both solo and with The Hillbillies from Mars (eclectic trad.), Les Têtes de Violon (Québécois), Wake the Dead (Celtic Grateful Dead), and with Men of Worth's Celtic Christmas. He also currently plays with the Family Carr, which includes his wife Josie Mendelsohn, and son and daughter, Daniel and Molly Carr.
PATRICIA MAUREEN O’SCANNELL, vocalist, whistles, recorders and other
historic reeds and winds, early bowed strings, hand percussion
Pat’s career has spanned three decades, during which time she has worked at the Old Globe Theater, The Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she was employed as specialist in historic styles as both a musician, musical director, composer and arranger for 25 years. She directed and founded the Terra Nova Consort, ensemble-in-residence at OSF for 17 years, which toured worldwide, and produced recordings released in over 50 countries. TNC played at the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, GE, the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato, MX, and at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Her programs have twice received national recognition on Millennium of Music in the 90’s with Fauvel, King of Vice! and later with Renaissance en Provence. As a celtic musician, Pat has played the Northwest Folklife Festival, the Vancouver Folk Festival, the B.C. Festival of the Islands, and other folk venues throughout the West Coast. She has appeared with Tomaseen Foley, Men of Worth, Kevin Carr, and many other notable musicians. Radio appearances include: Harmonia (IN), St. Paul Sunday (MN), West Coast Live (CA), In the Mode (CA), and an assortment of appearances on NPR in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, Britain and Germany, as well as throughout the U.S. She has taught at SOU through the Music Department where she founded its Collegium Musicum program, and in Elderhostel, Shakespeare Studies and Senior Ventures programs, as well as privately.
Read below about the first two concerts in our series: