Irish Sundays
Brongaene Griffin & Nancy Conescu
- Hotel Oregon - Cellar Bar |
- Sunday, December 18
- 5 p.m. |
- Free |
- 21 and over
About Brongaene Griffin & Nancy Conescu
Brongaene Griffin's long-awaited debut CD is an exciting collection of "contemporary traditional" fiddle music. Based in Portland, OR, Brongaene is a well established NW area fiddler who has roots in Bluegrass and Old-Time and began focusing her playing on Irish music in the late 1990s.
The cat "theme" that runs through Griffin's recording is expressed in the CD title, the tune selection and in the poetry readings (charmingly rendered by the voice of fiddler Kevin Burke). Brongaene dedicates the whole album to feline welfare and at the same time allows her fiddle playing, accompanied by the collective and individual talents of both locally and internationally acclaimed musicians, to take the listener on a journey through her musical influences, the music of Ireland and America.
Guitarist Gerry O'Beirne, fiddler Kevin Burke and accordionist Johnny Connolly from Ireland are featured prominently on the recording as are Portland's Elizabeth Nicholson on harp, Jim Chapman on bouzouki and Bob Soper on djembe and fiddle.
Brongaene invited Gerry O'Beirne to also bring his invaluable production experience and skills to the project. Over the course of two years Gerry and Brongaene carefully crafted this heartfelt album, which was recorded at Big Red Studio in Portland, Oregon.
Having taken lessons from Kevin Burke while in her teens, Brongaene, as a young woman, moved to Ireland for several years. She learned from, and paid great attention to, the great fiddlers of that country and at the same time retained her broad, rich tones, underlining her Old-Time and Bluegrass beginnings.
- website:
- http://www.brongaenegriffin.com
