Salon host Maeve Gilchrist visits with some of the Festival’s artists to discuss traditional music, techniques, collaboration and more. Hear American traditional music icons Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger discuss innovation vs tradition and share some stories from the road! Hannah Read talks to us about her mycologist father’s influence on her current Fungi project and the artistic inspiration found in the natural world.

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Salon Session With Maeve Gilchrist

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Sharing their Celtic, Nordic and Appalachian cultures: Aly Bain, Scotland’s supreme traditional style fiddler; Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller, and American old time fiddler, singer, guitarist and banjo player Bruce Molsky form a dynamic diversity.

Aly Bain, Ale Möller and Bruce Molsky

The Music Room

For decades, he’s been a globetrotting performer, ethnomusicologist and educator, a recording artist with an expansive discography including seven solo albums, well over a dozen collaborations and two Grammy-nominations. He’s also the classic “musician’s musician” – a man who’s received high praise from diverse fans and collaborators from Linda Ronstadt, Mark Knopfler, Donal Lunny,Andy Irvine, Bill Frisell and Jerry Douglas, a true country gentleman by way of the Big Apple aptly dubbed “the Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddlers” ( Darol Anger).

Bruce Molsky

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 17, 2024

Bruce Molsky · Traverse Theatre

Past events

Sep 14, 2024

Salon Session With Maeve Gilchrist · Rockport Music

Oct 24, 2023

Aly Bain, Ale Möller and Bruce Molsky · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

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