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Katie McNally Band

The Katie McNally Band | St Patrick's Day weekend concert!

Join Boston-based fiddler Katie McNally for an evening of bold and exquisite tunes bursting from the Scottish and Cape Breton traditions. The show takes place on Friday, March 13 at The Headwaters Building, 84 4th St. in Ashland, OR and begins at 7:30pm. Tickets are $35 for families, $15 for adults, and $10 for kids.

Described by The Living Tradition as "the new face of Scottish fiddling in the USA", Katie McNally grew up steeped in the vibrant Scottish and Cape Breton music community in Boston and is the 2009 New England Scottish Fiddle Champion. She was a student of Hanneke Cassel and has performed at venues such as the Newport Folk Festival, The Freight and Salvage, Wolf Trap, Symphony Space, Benaroya Hall, and various folk venues throughout the country. Katie performs regularly with all-female Celtic band Long Time Courting, has been a member of the New England ddle supergroup Childsplay since 2009, and joined world-renowned Galician bagpiper Carlos Núñez on his tour of North America in 2012. Featured on the cover of Fiddler Magazine's Winter 2014 issue, Katie is in high demand across the country as a performer, fiddle teacher, and dance musician.

In her second tour of the Pacific Northwest, Katie will be teaming up with two of the most innovative voices in acoustic music in the US, genre-bending pianist Neil Pearlman and Madison-based violist Shauncey Ali. Katie's evocative and melodic playing combined with Shauncey's powerful harmonies and counterpointall anchored by Neil's rhythmically driving piano accompanimentcreates a uniquely arresting take on traditional music.
For more info and to take a listen, visit www.katiemcnally.com, www.neilpearlman.com, http://www.graminy.net