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Iain MacHarg & Friends To Present
Scottish Highland Evening at Chandler Iain MacHarg and Friends will present "A Scottish Highland Evening" Friday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph. Well-known to New World Festival audiences and fans of Whiskey Before Breakfast and Prydein, MacHarg is one of the region’s leading highland bagpipe players, whose reputation as a teacher and performer has gained widespread acclaim, and the Catamount Pipe Band, his most recent group, has been a highlight of Randolph’s Fourth of July Parade for the past few years. MacHarg will perform at Chandler on the pipes, the Irish flute, whistles and bodhran. MacHarg began playing bagpipes at age six and began competing on the highland pipes at an early age. He subsequently received numerous awards within the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association, including the 2001 Season Championship. His repertoire includes tunes in the traditional Scottish, Cape Breton, Irish, Breton and French styles. Joining him for this Chandler concert will be Jerry Holland, Beth Telford, Dale and Mary Fran Stafford, Aron Garceau on guitar, Andrew Adams on percussion, The Catamount Pipe Band, and step dancer Sarah Marsh, rounding out an evening befitting the celebration of Robert Burns’ birthday. Holland is the foremost composer of music in the Cape Breton fiddle tradition and one of the finest fiddlers performing today. His original compositions are credited for both sustaining and carrying forward the Cape Breton tradition, and as a result, Holland is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary sources of inspiration in Celtic music. He lives and makes music on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Telford, who has played the fiddle for more than 25 years, began performing at contradances and coffeehouses in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. She has performed at the Eistedfod Folk Festival in Dartmouth, Mass., the New World Festival in Randolph and the Champlain Valley Folk Festival, as well as many times on the Chandler stage. Her dynamic and expressive fiddle playing draws on the influences of a number of Cape Breton, Scottish and Irish fiddlers. The Staffords’ concerts include traditional tunes and songs of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, along with medieval and Renaissance music. They play foot-tapping dances, fiery songs of romance and resistance, haunting airs, tender ballads and blessings. Dale plays soprano, alto and tenor recorders, and Mary Fran plays a Celtic harp modeled on a turn-of-the-century Irish instrument. Both of them also sing and provide fascinating historical and anecdotal information about the music. Tickets for this event, which is sponsored by State Farm Insurance and The Three Stallion Inn, may be purchased by calling the Chandler Box Office at 728-6464, through chandlertickets@yahoo.com, or at the Cover to Cover bookstore in downtown Randolph. ____________ |
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