The Peat-Fire Flame
Ms. Kitty's Harmony Road presents
an intimate house concert at the yellow Victorian featuring
The Classic Traditional Music of Scotland & Beyond
Colyn Fischer, violin & fiddle • Shauna Pickett-Gordon, piano
The Peat-Fire Flame
Sunday August 21, 2011
731 Main Street, Half Moon Bay
Downstairs at the yellow Victorian
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All proceeds from ticket and CD sales go to the artists.
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for wigglers, wobblers, walkers & the grown-ups who love them
This is a short, fun concert specially designed for kids and their grown-ups. There will be room to shake a leg, bounce to the beat and play along on some kid-sized percussion instruments. Please note: Children must attend with an adult. We'll sit on the floor but will have some chairs available for those who need them. This is a great opportunity for children to be part of a live music performance. They will love it.... and so will you!
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If you've never seen them perform live, this concert is your chance to be moved by their music.
There will be one 15 minute intermission with yummy treats provided for your nibbling pleasure. Plus you'll have a chance to meet the artists, purchase and get an autograph on any one or all of Shauna and Colyn's gorgeous CDs.
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Pay online (fee) or offline in advance (no fee) $25.00 per person day of the concert.
RSVP now for the advance purchase discount
Easy-to-forward flyer for this concert
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She co-directs the Peninsula Scottish Fiddlers and writes their arrangements. In southern California, she served churches and synagogues as music director, conducting the choir from the organ or piano; and she accompanies silent movies.
Her compositions range from classical to Celtic, jazz, and world styles.
Together Shauna and Colyn are The Peat-Fire Flame (http://www.scotsduo.com), a concert duo specializing in the virtuosic classical-traditional music of Scotland, but they also play in other genres including their trademark Jazzeltic (Celtic jazz), world music, and free improvisations.
The duo have released two CDs: The Light of Day (2009) and Nocturne (2010), and they are featured on several albums by Sugo Music (available through iTunes). They play full-length concerts, they perform at events of all kinds, and they play for Scottish Country Dancing.
- "Both are brilliant musicians, performers, composers and teachers.Put them together and they're on fire."
- "From traditional Scottish tunes to original compostions and improvisation, the duo plays passionately. Your face will ache during the happy tunes because you will not be able to stop smiling. Other compositions will sweep you away and leave you in a glorious dream."
- "Superlative playing ... with colors and an emotional immediacy"
- "Is it Celtic? world? jazz? All of the above..."
- "Two extraordinary performing and composing talents bring tradition's full power into the present..."
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Colyn and Shauna teach at Ms. Kitty's Harmony Road and are currently accepting new students. Shauna teaches piano (all levels through advanced and improvisation) and voice (all levels and styles including opera) and Colyn teaches bowed strings (all levels and all styles) and, of course, Scottish fiddling.
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