Celtic Fiddle Festival - Equinoxe - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Celtic Fiddle Festival artist profile Music of Ireland, Brittany and Québec 'Three sensational fiddlers from three distinct Celtic traditions. Breathtaking!' Boston Herald Kevin Burke (Ireland), Christian Lemaître (Brittany), André Brunet (Quebec) and Ged Foley (UK, Ireland) on guitar 'Mesmerising, plaintive, celebratory and winsome in turn...Celtic Fiddle Festval ratchets up the temperature as they ricochet through everything from magnificent Québecois tunes to Breton marches to the Irish tradition." So writes Irish journalist Siobhán Long in The Irish Times. Sold-out tours and standing ovations give further testimony to the electricity and excitement generated by these three great individual fiddle stylists. Kevin Burke (Ireland), Christian Lemaître (Brittany, France) and André Brunet (Québec) combine their talents, musical traditions, and spontaneous humor for an evening of dazzling energy and subtle grace. They are joined by acclaimed English musician Ged Foley on guitar, providing both driving accompaniment and delicate solos. Called 'three of the finest folk violinists anywhere' by The Washington Post, Celtic Fiddle Festival will their fifth CD, Equinoxe, in February 2008. A harvest of international tunes, the new album celebrates the possibilities of the violin in all it's globe-trotting variations. It is their first on Burke's new Loftus Music , after a string of acclaimed recordings on Green Linnet. In a Celtic Fiddle Festival live performance, these traditional masters showcase their regional repertoires and conjure an experience of breathtaking performances. Kevin Burke, considered one of the finest Irish fiddlers of his time, is known for his inimitable feel and silky tone on the swiftly rolling music of County Sligo. Lemaitre brings his unerring control and the hypnotic, modal melodies of the Breton fest-noz or "night-dances." And newest member Brunet,