Not Just Another Coffeehouse

Celtic Harpist Kathleen Guilday and Fiddlers Laurel and Sarah Martin

Where: Not Just Another Coffeehouse

Unitarian Church of Sharon

4 North Main Street, Sharon, MA

When: Saturday, February 21, 2015, 7PM

Admission: $15 or what you can afford

Handicap Accessible

An All-Ireland harp champion Kathleen Guilday will be joined by fiddlers Laurel Martin and Sarah Martin and will performing at Not Just AnotherCoffeehouse at the Unitarian Church of Sharon on February 21 at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $15.00. The organization is not for profit, so may pay what they can. The facility is handicapped accessible.

Kathleen Guilday has been performing for more than thirty years, both as a soloist and as a member of various locally based groups. Kathleen has appeared at Boston’s Symphony Hall with The Chieftains and entertained President and Mrs. Clinton and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern at the White House on St. Patrick’s Day 2000. For many years Kathleen taught harp at the Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann music school in Boston and has adjudicated harp competitions at the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest Regional Fleadhanna Ceoil. Kathleen can be heard on fiddler Séamus Connolly’s recordings Notes From My Mind and Here and There, accordion player Joe Burke’s album The Tailor’s Choice, Laurel Martin’s CD The Groves, and on the Childsplay fiddle ensemble recordings Heaven and Earth, Waiting for the Dawn, As the Crow Flies, and the concert DVD Fiddles, Fiddlers, and a Fiddlemaker.

Laurel Martin’s studied the regional fiddle styles of Ireland with Master fiddler Séamus Connolly in the early 1990s under a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and subsequently assumed the role of master teacher. Laurel served on the faculty of the Boston College Irish Studies program as an instructor of Irish fiddle from 1994 until 2007 and has directed the Wellesley College “Fiddleheads” ensemble. Currently Laurel teaches at the Indian Hill Music School in Littleton, Massachusetts and performs and offers workshops throughout the United States and abroad. In 2002 Laurel and her mentor Séamus Connolly published the book and CD set Forget Me Not: Fifty Memorable Traditional Irish Tunes. In addition to her solo recording, The Groves, and her work on Tony Cuffe’s CD Sae Will We Yet, Laurel can be heard on the Childsplay fiddle ensemble recordings Childsplay Live, Heaven and Earth, Waiting for the Dawn and As the Crow Flies.

Laurel’s daughter Sarah Martin is trained as a classical violinist and violist, Sarah has gradually moved towards the traditional Irish fiddle music that her mother, Laurel Martin, plays, teaches and shares at home. Sarah also loves singing, composing and playing guitar, and in 2010 she released an album of her own songs, In-Between Lullabies.

Contact:

Elaine Price

elp128@msn.com