Our first meeting with Shira Kammen, our fiddler extraordinaire. A great production value weight has been lifted from my shoulders to know that someone so prolific and talented and connected is handling a huge portion of the artistry of the day!
She'll be getting us our contra dance caller and music talent as well. This day is Shira's gift to us! We are so humbled and amazed and thrilled- thank you!
Already I can hear the amazing sounds of this day which will truly be unique and ultimately NOT your usual wedding (my inner exhibitionist is ululating in in the closet of my identity right now). A small portion of Shira's bio:
Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many years of the early music Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, anensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Morocco, and Japan, and on the Colorado, Rogue and Klamath Rivers.
She has played on several television and movie soundtracks, including 'O', amodern high school-setting of Othello. Some of her original music can be heard in an independent film about fans of the work of JRR Tolkien.
And my favorite factoid- I wonder if it's still true: "The strangest place Shira has played is in the elephant pit of the Jerusalem Zoo."
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