*bounce* *bounce* I adore Shira! She's a fabulous fiddler, and a great person (and lots of fun!!).
I studied vielle with Shira Kammen at the Medieval Music workshops I took years ago. She and the rest of Ensemble Alcatraz used to make up a good portion of the staff. Actually, they're ALL great. I highly recommend seeing them in person if you can manage it. Kit Higginson is rather quiet personally, but just astoundingly competent on his instruments (recorder and psaltery). And Peter Maund is just a GOD of percussion--we used to joke that "at no time do his fingers leave his hands!" And Cheryl Fulton is one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet, as well as a FABULOUS harpist on a huge variety of harps. As well as having gorgeous long blonde hair.
Love them all, but especially Shira. She used to play really funny jokes at the workshop, and didn't even try to kill me for my truly AWFUL playing. :^)
I could imagine you and Pat English dancing together for sure. "If you can walk, you can dance!"
Ah, I get it now! I figured out why you thought I was talking about someone named Pat English. Here's that sentence again, with some clarifying punctuation:
I could imagine you and patgreene English-dancing together for sure. "If you can walk, you can dance!"
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Shira!!
Date: 2003-05-02 09:37 am (UTC)I studied vielle with Shira Kammen at the Medieval Music workshops I took years ago. She and the rest of Ensemble Alcatraz used to make up a good portion of the staff. Actually, they're ALL great. I highly recommend seeing them in person if you can manage it. Kit Higginson is rather quiet personally, but just astoundingly competent on his instruments (recorder and psaltery). And Peter Maund is just a GOD of percussion--we used to joke that "at no time do his fingers leave his hands!" And Cheryl Fulton is one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet, as well as a FABULOUS harpist on a huge variety of harps. As well as having gorgeous long blonde hair.
Love them all, but especially Shira. She used to play really funny jokes at the workshop, and didn't even try to kill me for my truly AWFUL playing. :^)
I could imagine you and Pat English dancing together for sure. "If you can walk, you can dance!"
Re: Shira!!
Date: 2003-05-05 10:21 pm (UTC)I could imagine you and