FiddleSticks Celtic Folk Band

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Orem, UT USA

December 02, 2003

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FiddleSticks is a family musical group that performs folk songs and traditional tunes from the Celtic lands, from England, and from America. The band is made up of three teenaged sisters, Rebecca, Kathryn, and Elizabeth Davis, and their father Mark. 

Featured instruments include fiddle, flutes, cello, bodhran (Irish drum), guitar and vocals. Traditional tune and new tunes in traditional styles are presented in a lively mix, with influences from Jazz, Klezmer, New Age, and Afro-Caribbean traditions.

FiddleSticks' music is a lively mix of traditional Celtic and English dance music, together with original pieces by the group's  composer and fiddler, Kathryn, as well as plenty of storytelling songs of life, love and laughter. A typical performance also includes a few sets containing Klezmer (Jewish), continental European, contemporary American folk, and Mormon Pioneer music.

Band/artist history

FiddleSticks got their start in 1991 when the family lived in the Washington DC area, and since moving to Utah in 1996 they have delighted audiences throughout the state. They have performed throughout Utah, Idaho, Maryland, and New England, and recently completed a tour in Holland and Italy. Despite busy work and school schedules, the family band averages over fifty public performances a year, including various music and folk festivals, numerous community, library, and school concerts, private parties and receptions, and performances for the 1998 and 2000 Utah Performing Arts Tours.

Have you performed in front of an audience?

Over 50 shows per year, country wide.

Your musical influences

Think of Chieftains, only young and female.  Who else do we sound like?  Altan, Battlefield Band, Bonnie Rideout, Eileen Ivers, Clannad.

Anything else?

FiddleSticksEmusic has recognition in national awards, including a 2003 Pearl Award for best contemporary instrumental recording.  They have released five recordings,  “Cat and the FiddleE(2002), “Time and AgainE(2001) “Christmas Cold FusionE(2000), “Playing FavoritesE(1999) and “FiddleSticks SamplerE(1998), which have been enthusiastically received by the band’s growing crowd of admirers.  The group is now working on a new collection of American and Mormon folk hymns.  Recordings are available in local bookstores, by mail order, on CDBaby.com, or on FiddleSticksEweb page: www.fiddle-sticks.com.

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