Crisol de Cuerda
(Crucible of Strings)

a new “Fiddle Camp” to be held in the Pyrenees of northern Spain and directed by Scottish Fiddler Alasdair Fraser

Dates - 13th to the 19th of July 2008

ALASDAIR FRASER (fiddle and Director), NATALIE HAAS (cello), JUAN ARRIOLA (fiddle) and CARLOS BECEIRO (bouzouki and guitar).

Contact for information: info@crisoldecuerda.com
Tel: Blanca Altable +34 696 390 642 **(6:00pm to 10:30 local time, Madrid. Time difference: Glasgow +1 hour, San Francisco +9 hours) - English and Spanish spoken!

Website: http://www.crisoldecuerda.com

Accepting reservations now on-line

THE NEW CD IS HERE!!!!
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
In the MOMENT
Bringing a Fresh Sound to an Old Tradition

"Traditional music has always been a connective tissue between cultures, communities, and generations. Witness the duo of Scottish fiddle star Fraser and cello prodigy Haas. He is from Clackmannan, a small town in Scotland's smallest county. She is a Juilliard grad from California. When they met, he was teacher, and she was student. And yet on a new CD, "In the Moment," you would think they'd been playing together for centuries. While his fiddle dances, her cello throbs darkly or plucks puckishly. Then she opens her cello's throat, joining Fraser in soaring sustains, windswept refrains, and sudden, jazzy explosions. Their sound is as urbane as a Manhattan midnight, and as wild as a Clackmannan winter."
Scott Alarik, Boston Globe

"The musical chemistry between Scottish fiddle legend Alasdair Fraser and young cello ace Natalie Haas is a rare, felicitous thing". Daniel Gewertz, Boston Herald

See new review ofIn the Moment in FROOTS Magazine

Quote from Fraser, Haas light fires with a fiddle
"He's what the music is all about -- traditional music as an avenue to your soul, it wakes you up from the inside and gets you in touch with ethnic roots and deeper cultural images."
Honolulu Star-Bulletin May 2007

 

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Review from CELTIC CONNECTIONS FESTIVAL 2008 City Halls, Glasgow, Jan 26, 2008

Fraser appeared in his favoured current pairing with the young
American cellist Natalie Haas, continuing to pursue their resurrection and reinvention of the classic musical marriage between big and small fiddles, a familiar feature of Scottish music in the 18th century. The duo’s near-telepathic interplay was dazzling both for its breathtaking technical prowess and its
boundless dynamism, be it in tunes from that same golden era,
the age of Burns and Gow, or Fraser’s own memorable
compositions.

Sue Wilson, Hi-Arts Journal

 

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