Asheville’s Award-Winning Scottish Supergroup
From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, an area historically settled by Highland Scots who made their music part of Appalachian culture, comes a new American Scottish supergroup: GLENCOE.
Glencoe boasts a two-time National Scottish Fiddle Champion and a four-time National Scottish Harp Champion among its members, and is one of the only North American groups to incorporate all three of Scotland’s national instruments (bagpipes, fiddle and harp) in its lineup. Adopting the name of both a historic village in Scotland and an early settlement near Asheville (now part of Pisgah National Forest), Glencoe honors the Scottish connection with the group’s mountain home.
Piper ROSALIND BUDA plays the Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, whistle, and the mighty Great Highland Bagpipes with the same power and authority with which she performs in her other life as a master classical bassoonist. Fiddler MAURA SHAWN SCANLIN, besides being a two-time National Scottish Fiddle Champion, is also a winner of the Glenfiddich Fiddle Championship in Perthshire, Scotland, and is known nationally for her work with the duo Rakish. Four-time harp champion SUE RICHARDS has won multiple Wammie Awards, including Album of the Year, from the Washington Area Music Association for her solo recordings, and a Grammy nomination as a member of Ensemble Galilei. And towering above them all – physically, that is, at 6’5″ – is guitarist/citternist ROBIN BULLOCK, a recipient of the Association for Independent Music’s Indie Award with the trio Helicon and a longtime touring sideman with Grammy-winning folk legends Tom Paxton and Janis Ian. All four are also prolific composers, creating new music that blends seamlessly into Scottish tradition.
From the first note they strike, GLENCOE makes clear their mastery of Scottish tradition and their sheer joy at bringing it to life together. A Glencoe performance is an irresistible and unforgettable experience for all lovers of Celtic music.
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