This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own.Meet Milva, learn about the campaign, and enjoy exceptional live Celtic and klezmer musicMedford City Council candidate Milva McDonald invites one and all to campaign events with live music at Mrs. Murphy’s, 25 Salem St., Medford. The first event on Friday, August 29 from 6-8 p.m. features two acclaimed Celtic artists – fiddler Alasdair White and guitari...
This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own.
Meet Milva, learn about the campaign, and enjoy exceptional live Celtic and klezmer music
Medford City Council candidate Milva McDonald invites one and all to campaign events with live music at Mrs. Murphy’s, 25 Salem St., Medford. The first event on Friday, August 29 from 6-8 p.m. features two acclaimed Celtic artists – fiddler Alasdair White and guitarist Eric McDonald. The second event on Sunday, September 7 from 3-5 p.m. features the Shirim Klezmer Duo. Meet Milva, learn about her campaign, and enjoy exceptional live music. Suggested donation $25-$100. Drinks and food available from the menu at www.mrsmurphs.com/menu. More information at www.milva4medford.com/events.
Alasdair White & Eric McDonald
Alasdair White is an exceptional exponent of west coast Scottish music and is widely regarded as one of the foremost Scottish fiddler players of his generation. He was born and brought up on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, a chain of islands of singular importance to Gaelic Scotland’s musical heritage and is perhaps best known as having been a member of Scotland’s seminal Battlefield Band for over 16 years, touring extensively in that time throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Now resident in New York, Alasdair has performed and recorded as a guest with many of the best-known names in Scottish, Irish and Breton traditional music including Kathleen MacInnis, Julie Fowlis, Eddie Reader, Allan MacDonald, Manus Lunny, Nuala Kennedy, and Arnaud Ciapolino. Current ongoing projects include Daimh, the Alan Kelly Gang and of course, Battlefield Band. Eric McDonald is a Montréal-based musician steeped in traditional, folk, and Celtic music. He plays with Edinburgh-based powerhouse band Cantrip as well as acclaimed Celtic trio Kalos. He has toured internationally with Celtic supergroup The Outside Track, and performs regularly with the legendary, Juno-winning Canadian group The McDades.
Shirim Klezmer Duo
Clarinetist Glenn Dickson has had a varied career playing klezmer, jazz, rock, Balkan and ambient music. His klezmer band, Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, has performed concerts and festivals across the US, Canada and Europe, with recordings including the Klezmer Nutcracker and a collaboration with Maurice Sendak (Pincus and the Pig). His klezmer-fusion band, Naftule’s Dream, features Glenn's compositions and has played major jazz festivals in the US, Canada and Europe, including the Berlin, Montreal and New York Jazz Festivals. Glenn is a recipient of two Mass Cultural Council Artist Grant awards. His first solo album, Wider than the Sky, was recently released and has received glowing reviews from US & European reviewers. Most recently, he released All the Light of Our Sphere with synthesizer player Bob Familiar. Michael McLaughlin is pianist/accordionist and composer/arranger for Shirim and Naftule’s Dream. McLaughlin’s compositional output spans many genres. Jazz, popular, various styles of world folk music and modern concert music all inform McLaughlin’s music. He has won two awards from the American Composers Forum Boston, as well as an award from the St. Botolph Club and received a 2001 Mass Cultural Council Fellowship Award in Composition. His works have been performed by Trio Capriccio, The Chameleon Arts Ensemble, The Niagara Symphony, The Newton Symphony and the Boston Chamber Ensemble. He teaches at Tufts University.
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