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Brocelïande Celtic and Early Music Quartet
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 Vocals * Celtic Harp * Flute * Recorders Margaret grew up in Illinois where she was classically trained as a flutist and recorder player and received her degree in Music from Knox College. She studied voice with vocal coach Lillian Loran and performed for 6 years as singer and harper with the Medieval band Gai Saber. A life-long interest in her Scots Celtic ancestry led to work with the Celtic bands Magic Fire, Four Shillings Short and Avalon Rising, with whom she has recorded the albums Magic Fire, Now, Avalon Rising, and The Starlit Jewel. Her solo album, Princess of Flowers, features the other members of Brocelïande on backups. She co-runs Flowinglass Music with her husband Kristoph Klover. |
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 Guitar * Octave Mandolin * Vocals * Whistle * Melodeon * Percussion Karl became interested in music growing up in rural Massachusetts. He taught himself harmonica at age 8; he learned guitar from singing nuns shortly thereafter, then sang and played guitar in folk-masses and with friends in Massachusetts. He was influenced by recordings of the Newport Folk Festivals at an early age, then studied guitar with East Coast guitarist Phil Cooper. He began playing Irish music in college and taught himself mandolin at that time. Karl played guitar with a progressive band at MIU in Iowa, then continued with folk music in California with Carol Hunner, First of May, Four Shillings Short, and Nancy Cassidy. learning the tin whistle, melodeon, and doumbek along the way. As well as performing in Brocelïande, he currently plays with, Alan Keith, Maxina Ventura, Gary Breitbard, Harmon's Peak, Luceo, Mr. Barky Slainte of SF Bay , teaches guitar, & creates web sites and does graphic design. He has appeared on the albums For Earth and Her People, Up From the Bog, Incantation, The Starlit Jewel, Along Celtic Lines, To Touch the Stars and many others. |
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 Vocals * Guitars * Octave Mandolin * Oboe Kristoph is one of the lead vocalists of Brocelïande, plays guitar, octave mandolin, and oboe, and writes original music performed in the band. After studying vocal technique with James Schwabacher and Edwin Barlow and appearing with the Marin Opera, Kristoph co-led the bands Magic Fire and Avalon Rising, with whom he sang and played lead guitar. Kristoph's original music has been recorded on the albums Magic Fire, The Starlit Jewel, and Avalon Rising, and he has worked with women's music artist Cynthia McQuillin as co-producer, arranger and performer on her album This Heavy Heart. He co-owns and operates Flowinglass Music with his wife Margaret Davis, of which he is the recording engineer. |
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Cello * Kamanche * Viola da Gamba * Vocals * Percussion Kris Yenney ~ cellist, conductor, composer, and teacher ~ has a M.M. degree in cello performance from New England Conservatory of Music, and has also studied at Julliard, Tanglewood, and in Banff, India and Scotland... She has performed extensively with several ensembles, from the San Jose Symphony and Opera orchestras to the New England String Quartet (NESQ), the Left Coast Ensemble, Trio con Brio to the Gryphon Allstars and the TheatreWorks orchestra and Four Shillings Short. She teaches cello and chamber music privately and directs the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra's SuperStrings and Preparatory groups. She can be heard on numerous recordings ranging from classical to Celtic to Jazz. Highlights of her musical life include presenting a private concert with Yo-Yo Ma and NESQ, performing with Jazz pianist Fred Hersch, accompanying Terry Riley in a concert of Indian Raga in Delhi, India, playing with Alasdair Fraser's fiddle class in Skye and sitting in with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Smokey Robinson and Rod Stewart. She works with teachers and performers in the growing field of sound healing, including Lisa Rafel, Joshua Leeds, Stephen Kent, Barbary Grant and Fabien Maman. Recent exploration of her Scandinavian roots has opened a whole new landscape of traditional musical forms and timbres.. Stay Tuned! |
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Contact Margaret: margaret@flowinglass.com
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