Featured Musicians
Punkinfiddle has signed a strong list of talented musicians:
Joyce Andersen - fiddler, singer, and songwriter, with Harvey Reid playing acoustic stringed instruments.
Brendan Carey Block - US National Junior Scottish Fiddle Champion and three-time New England Champion 2000-2001, accompanied on guitar by his dad, Rich.
Halali
- this group of talented musicians will
play and sing their way into your heart and soul, joined by
Cara
Frankowicz's exciting fiddle playing.
Joyce Andersen
Joyce
Andersen has made a name for herself as a sought-after fiddler and session
player in the Northeast for the last ten years, and has played in bluegrass,
country, rock, jazz & Celtic groups. D
Her fiery fiddling has run the gamut from Nashville country, alt rock, swing, bluegrass, Celtic and folk, to various traditional fiddle styles.
Her travels have taken her from Carnegie Hall to the Conan O'Brien show, from the New England coffee-houses to her local pubs, from national folk festivals to house concerts, from Sweden to Japan.
Now Andersen, a returned native of the Maine/New Hampshire seacoast, is getting attention for her songwriting which Scott Alarki of the Boston Globe said is both "steeped in tradition" and "fresh as tomorrow's newspaper." The last 3 years Andersen has teamed up with songwriter and acoustic guitar legend Harvey Reid to record the highly-acclaimed "Great Sad River", and to do a lot of concert touring. Reid co-produced her first solo CD "The Girl I Left Behind" in 2000, which sparked the interest in her as a songwriter and singer. Her new release "Right Where I Should Be" is turning the spotlight even more on her own sound that is at once rooted in traditional styles and contemporary. Her clear and powerful vocal/fiddle duets are a sound that is all her own.