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Lisa Greenleaf
Rodney & Elvie Miller |
| Host |
Meg Winters |
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Lisa Greenleaf calls regularly in the Boston and New England areas. Her wide knowledge of traditional and modern dances (both contras and squares) and her community-building attitude put her in high demand at camps around the country and beyond.
Her specialties included traditional and contemporary contras, fun squares, challenging dances of all shapes and sizes, couple dances and callers' workshops.
Lisa's fun-loving attitude makes everyone feel welcome. Particularly skilful at calling to the level of the dancers, she'll be showing us how to achieve dance ecstasy through simple points of style as well as leading challenging and no-walk through sessions. |
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Rodney Miller In 1983 Rodney was designated a "Master Fiddler" by the National Endowment for the Arts. He is widely considered to be the foremost exponent of New England style fiddling, a uniquely American blend of French Canadian and Celtic influences.
Over the past 35 years, he has toured the U.S., British Isles, Australia and Denmark, performed and taught at hundreds of music and dance festivals, and recorded over ten fiddle albums.
In 1999, Rodney was invited to represent the state of New Hampshire and play at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. He has also appeared on Garrison Keillor's National Public Radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," performed live with the Twyla Tharp Modern Dance Company, played at the Kennedy Center in NYC and recorded for the National Geographic Society.
In 2007, Rodney and his daughter Elvie Miller recorded a beautiful new all waltz CD, Spyglass: Waltzes, which has already been described as "Reiki for the World."
Rodney is a master violin-maker employed by Stamell Stringed Instruments in Amherst, Ma.
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Elvie Miller provides the powerful, seemingly effortless, sometimes mischievous half of the Miller duet, on piano and piano accordion.
She showed the world that she had been paying attention during her upbringing in the midst of the traditional dance/music revival when, while still an undergraduate, she recorded a delightful CD with fiddler Naomi Morse (Grapevine, 2003).
In 2005, Elvie was selected as a Watson scholar and spent a year in northern Europe studying traditional music. Now she is back in New England and tours with Airdance, Night Watch and others.
These days, she can be heard making superb music with her father and others at dances and festivals around the world |
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Meg Winters organises Alcester Contra club, plays guitar with Momentum, and is acting as host for this weekend event. |
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