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fave it Traditional Folk | Celtic
11 tracks | 50 minutes
Released Nov 2005
on Emerald Rae
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:51 Contemplaytion lyrics FREE 03:51 Contemplaytion lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:51 Contemplaytion
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:13 The Glass Fiddle lyrics BUY MP3 03:13 The Glass Fiddle lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:13 The Glass Fiddle
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:20 Polly Put the Kettle On lyrics BUY MP3 04:20 Polly Put the Kettle On lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:20 Polly Put the Kettle On
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:46 A Skye Song lyrics BUY MP3 05:46 A Skye Song lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:46 A Skye Song
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:16 Cape Breton Blast lyrics BUY MP3 03:16 Cape Breton Blast lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:16 Cape Breton Blast
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:39 The Blackest Crow lyrics BUY MP3 07:39 The Blackest Crow lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:39 The Blackest Crow
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"The eloquent playing of 2-time New England Scottish Fiddle Champion Emerald Rae fills the heart as well as the ear..." -The Boston Globe
Bio / Background
"The eloquent playing of 2-Time New England Scottish Fiddle Champion Emerald Rae fills the heart as well as the ear" -The Boston Globe.
Now a National Scottish Fiddle Champion (2004), Emerald Rae also studies Film Scoring at Boston's Berklee College of Music and is in high demand in Massachusetts as a teacher and performer. She is well known as a patient and generous instructor of both fiddle and stepdance and currently holds teaching posts at Wellesley College and the famous Club Passim School of Music in Cambridge.
Emerald grew up in a very musical household. Her parents were both professional musicians, so her knowledge of the life of a musician was firmly instilled at a young age; and she was encourage to sing, dance and play music. After picking up the fiddle at the age of seven, Emerald's insatiable interest in the music of Scotland and Cape Breton landed her in many popular fiddle camps.
↓ more ↓She was a regular at the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music in Inverness, Cape Breton; Gaelic Roots at Boston College and Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School.
She studied privately with Barbara McOwen of the popular Scottish Country Dance band Tullochgorum (then the leader of the NH Strathspey and Reel Society) for eight years before beginning her stint at Berklee, where she has studied jazz, classical, blues, klezmer, and of course - film composition.
Emerald is also a talented Cape Breton Stepdancer and has danced for such fiddling giants as Alasdair Fraser and Natalie MacMaster. Last summer, she shared her knowledge and steps with the eager dance students at the famous Pinewoods Dance Camp in Plymouth, Ma.
On her debut solo album "Contemplaytion", Emerald brings some of the east coast's finest Celtic accompanyists to play with her. The album included her fiddling, singing, dancing, and 12 original tunes.
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