notloB Parlour Concerts presents Sandra Wong and Ross Martin, JP, 8/17

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On Friday, August 17 notloB Parlour Concerts will welcome to the historic Loring-Greenough House (c. 1760) in Jamaica Plain

Sandra Wong and Ross Martin

Sandra Wong and Ross Martin come together in a dynamic combination of nyckelharpa/fiddle, and guitar to explore music from all corners of the globe, including their own compositions. Sandra and Ross have been playing music together for 8 years and are now taking their duo on the road. 

Reaching into their individual roots of Classical Western, Bluegrass, Jazz, Scandinavian, Middle-eastern, Old-time American music and more, their arrangements honor each tradition while moving into new, unchartered territory. Whether it’s old-time tunes in 7, Bach on nyckelharpa and guitar, Swedish tunes from hundreds of years ago brought into a 21st century arrangement, original compositions or simply beautifully played renditions of traditional folk melodies from around the world; Sandra and Ross create a musical playground for everyone (both musicians and listeners) to explore, play, stretch, and grow in a joyful space.

notloB Parlour Concerts presents Sandra Wong and Ross Martin

Friday, August 17, 2012

Doors 7:15, Concert 7:30pm
Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain
$9 +$1 preservation fee if received by August 1, $14 + $1 preservation fee thereafter.
Reservation requests to notlobreservations at gmail dot com
Concert & series information: https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/

Mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/notlobmusic
Facebook event - https://www.facebook.com/events/159950770796869/

Pastries from Fiore's
Coffee from JP Licks

Public transportation: http://mbta.com/

Since June 2, 2007, notloB has presented close to 100 old-time, blue/newgrass, folk, Celtic and acoustic blues concerts to audiences throughout the greater Boston area. The historic Loring-Greenough House - http://loring-greenough.org/  - built in 1760. The concerts are volunteer-run and not for profit. 100% of the patron donations go to the artists and production expenses.

"In this era of pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive." 
~Jack Hardy

notfarG House Concerts Presents SANDRA WONG

Sandra Wong was too young to remember, but her parents say she displayed a deep love of music from a very early age. With Beethoven's 5th as her nighttime lullaby, Sandra began studying the violin at age seven with the intention of becoming a concert violinist. This remained her sole focus for fifteen years until she discovered fiddling…and her entire musical world was turned upside down! Suddenly music became about connecting with other people in a joyful, communal way rather than an isolated striving for perfection. It began with Irish, Old-time and Bluegrass festival jams and has grown into her current livelihood of teaching, performing, recording and collaborating with other musicians from a diverse range of world music genres. In 1999, Sandra fell in love with a wonderful Swedish folk instrument called the nyckelharpa, a 16 stringed, keyed bowed instrument. It is now an integral part of her work and musical expression.

Sandra has released two solo albums; “It’s About Time”(1999) and “Joy”(2000) and has two new albums out this year. The first is a collaboration with mandolinist Dominick Leslie covering original tunes and folk music from Sweden to Spain. This CD also features Grant Gordy - guitar, Eric Thorin - bass, Jayme Stone – banjo, and Ty Burhoe – tabla.

The second is a duo album “Frolic & Romp” with fellow fiddler Ryan Drickey exploring folk dance music from contradance tunes to Swedish polskas on fiddles, nyckelharpa, banjo, and cello.

Sandra has toured nationally and internationally appearing at festivals such as Vancouver Folk Festival, Festival Vancouver, Festival D’ete, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Calgary Folk Festival, Moab Music Festival, Swallow Hill and others as both a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians.

http://www.sandrawongmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/sandrawongmusic

BY INVITATION ONLY ~ email notlobreservations@gmail.com for information.

Pot luck dinner / BYOB ~ 7:00pm
Concert ~ 8:00pm

Free will offering ($10+ suggested)

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