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2003 Pearl Award Winner - Contemporary Instrumental Recording - "See
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FiddleSticks is a family musical group that performs folk songs and traditional tunes from the Celtic lands, from England, and from America. The band is made up of three young sisters, Rebecca, Kathryn, and Elizabeth Davis, and their father Mark. Featured instruments include fiddle, flutes, cello, bodhran (Irish drum), guitar and vocals. FiddleSticks got their start in 1991 when the family lived in the Washington DC area, and since moving to Utah in 1996 they have delighted audiences throughout the state. They have performed throughout Utah, Idaho, Maryland, and New England, and recently completed a tour in Holland and Italy. Despite busy work and school schedules, the family band averages over fifty public performances a year, including various music and folk festivals, numerous community, library, and school concerts, private parties and receptions, and performances for the 1998 and 2000 Utah Performing Arts Tours.
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About FiddleSticks FiddleSticks' music is a lively mix of traditional Celtic and English dance music, together with original pieces by the group's 15 year-old composer and fiddler, Kathryn, as well as plenty of storytelling songs of life, love and laughter. A typical performance also includes a few sets containing Klezmer (Jewish), continental European, contemporary American folk, and Mormon Pioneer music. The program is easily tailored to fit the age and interests of the audience, and can include storytelling, Irish dance, and audience participation. At Christmastime we present a variety of English and Celtic carols, Hanukkah tunes, and Solstice songs. Rebecca, who plays flute, whistles and recorders, is the group's chief vocalist, and is a junior at Brigham Young University, studying English teaching and visual art. Kathryn, who is just starting high school, is the band's fiddler and has written much of the band's original music. Elizabeth, in eighth grade, plays cello in the band and is an enthusiastic gymnast. Mark, the dad, plays guitar and bodhran with the band, teaches part-time at BYU, and has an international trade firm. Since the members of FiddleSticks are a family, and are mostly kids, they relate particularly well to youth and family audiences. We enjoy school or small seminar programs where the sources and origins of folk music are explored and demonstrated, participation programs where audience members learn percussion or vocal parts and play/sing along, storytelling including the stories told by the songs performed, puppet shows accompanied by featured instruments, explanations on playing the instruments and their origins. Kids and parents alike can sometimes get inspired by hearing the group's young players talk about their music, and love for music, how they practice, and how folk music has helped them in their classical music studies. What folks are saying about FiddleSticks!
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