Cronan, with Northwest Scottish Fiddlers Judith and Dale Cummings (right), play at 5 p.m. Monday.
We all know the big event of Northwest Folklife is the Northwest Scottish Fiddler’s concert (7:30 p.m. in the Seattle Center House Theater), but how many of us know that a handful of our members are actually surfacing in other weekend events?
FRIDAY
Samantha Braman gets things going with her band, The Onlies, which take the Northwest Court stage at 5:45 p.m. Friday. Sami’s been playing Scottish, Canadian, and American fiddle tunes with her buddies Riley and Leo for four years. This year, they’ve self-produced a CD and hope to sell enough to pay for fiddle camp.
SATURDAY
Calum MacKinnon, our musical director and fearless leader, gets things going at 12:05 p.m. Saturday in Northwest Folklife’s venerable Fiddler’s Showcase, in the Charlotte Martin Theater. He’ll be joined by guitarist Chris Leinengenyet another NWSF member, fiddler Christina Smith.
Just a few minutes later, NWSF Harvey Niebulski will doff his Scottish fiddle and don a klezmer accordion, when he leads “Klezmer 101,” a workshop in playing and singing joyful Jewish and Klezmer tunes. Klezmer 101 begins at 1 p.m. in the Olympic Room (Northwest Rooms).
MONDAY
Judith and Dale Cummings, normally attending our monthly gatherings with fiddle and guitar respectively and kidlets mutually, take the Northwest Court Stage at 5 p.m. Monday in the guise of Crònan, a Scottish music and Gaelic song quartet that performs everything from haunting laments to rabble-rousing reels with harp, fiddle, guitar, bouzouki, concertina. Besides fiddle, Judith plays harp and step-dances and sings, while in addition to guitar Dale plays flute and sings. They’re joined by Christine Traxler on fiddle and bodhran, and Christian Hoffman who sings and plays bouzouki and concertina.
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