Carolina Celtic featuring the "Asheville Highlanders"
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Carolina Celtic featuring the “Asheville Highlanders”

Suggested price: $22.00

Monday, May 12th – 7:30 pm We want everyone to access the healing power of music! Perhaps you can only afford a few dollars or maybe you have resources to cover the cost for others. Donate What You Can! You may enter your desired donation amount below. The suggested price per ticket is $22.

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Four of WNC’s Celtic masters – fiddle champion Maura Shawn Scanlin (of Rakish), piper/whistle player Rosalind Buda (of the Reel Sisters), harp champion Sue Richards and Indie Award-winning multi-instrumentalist Robin Bullock – team up for an evening of Scottish jigs and reels and who knows what else.
Born in Boone NC,  Maura Shawn Scanlin is a two-time U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion and a winner of the Glenfiddich Fiddle Championship in Perthshire, Scotland. She performs and tours regularly with the duo Rakish, with guitarist Conor Hearn, and has performed across North America and the United Kingdom, appearing at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Izumi Hall, Jordan Hall, Blair Castle, Shalin-Liu Performance Center, and the Sinclair, and festivals including Merlefest, KVMR Celtic Festival, Boston Celtic Music Festival and Grandfather Mountain Highland Games.
Multi-instrumentalist Rosalind Buda teaches and performs both classical and Celtic music on Scottish smallpipes, Highland bagpipes, bassoon and whistle (among others!) and is best known to White Horse audiences as one-half of the Celtic duo the Reel Sisters. She holds a BMUS from the University of Iowa and a MM from New England Conservatory in Bassoon Performance. Keeping to the mountain tradition, Rosalind also plays banjo and enjoys contra dancing!
Guitarist/citternist/mandolinist Robin Bullock and Celtic harper Sue Richards, both proud transplants to the WNC mountains, are the founders of the Carolina Celtic series. Their individual achievements speak for themselves, with (among many other accomplishments) Sue being a four-time National Scottish Harp Champion and Robin being ranked among the “100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists” by DigitalDreamDoor.com and a longtime touring sideman with Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award winner Tom Paxton. The magic of their combined artistic excellence and mastery of Celtic traditions is captured on their many individual recordings and their brilliant 2018 duo CD Highland Ramble.
 
Debut performance of this ensemble – don’t miss this one!