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Andrea Hoag
Fire & Water
ACCD 9902
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Andrea
Hoag
Andrea Hoag has been performing professionally since 1982 at venues across
the US, including The Kennedy Center and Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival,
as well as in England and Scandinavia. With versatility and improvisation
as her hallmarks, she appears on numerous recordings ranging from Cajun (Squeeze
Bayou's Steppin' Fast) to southern Appalachian (Washington Revels,
Behold That Star!) to Irish (Karen Ashbrook & Paul
Oorts, Celtic Café). She has been honored as Best Traditional
Folk Instrumentalist by the Washington Area Music Association. She is one
of the most respected performers of Swedish music in the US, and has been
guest faculty at Berklee College of Music, the Universities of New Mexico
and Washington, and Sweden's Värmland Folk Music School, as well as
at many music and dance weeks. Andrea appears regularly with mandolin/guitar
virtuoso Tom Espinola, the eclectic quartet Cabaret Sauvignon, and Scandinavian
master musicians Loretta Kelley and Charlie Pilzer.
Fire & Water combines original tunes with Swedish,
southern
Appalachian, Celtic, English, and jazz traditions. Andrea is joined by an
all-star group of musicians: Jacqueline Schwab, Bruce Molsky, Ralph Gordon,
Jeremiah McLane, Keith Murphy, and Paul Oorts.
"Call it a fiddle, call it a violin--in [her] hands it is simply a
marvelous string instrument that fits into myriad traditions and fuels many
cross-cultural fusions."
Richard Harrington, The Washington
Post
"This recording...goes so far beyond what one expects that it actually takes
several hearings to appreciate all the joyous interplay between Andrea and
her friends. It is well worth the effort."
The Orff Echo
Quarterly Publication
of the American
Orff-Schulwerk Association
" A fine and innovative recording..."
The Old-Time Herald
"Hoag is an amazing player with great technique who plays with conviction
and passion, whether the music is in a reflective or upbeat mood."
Baltimore Alternative
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Track 3 2:28
The
Sweeter the Juice Wonders Crossroads Music/BMI
Track 13 3:20
Snow
to Newcastle Wonders Crossroads Music/BMI
THE SWEETER
THE JUICE
I had intended to write a dark, moody tune for two fiddles and cello.
Instead this tune came out of my fiddle when I sat down with it one night.
"The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice," as the saying goes, and this
tune surely seemed sweet to me. Paul added his wonderful ideas and away we
went.
Musicians:
Andrea Hoag: fiddle
Paul Oorts: guitar
SNOW TO NEWCASTLE
This tune popped up during a night drive through a snowstorm in a big maroon
rental car, from the Dance Flurry in Saratoga Springs to Jacqueline's house
in Somerville, in the middle of listening to Bruce Molsky's Lost Boy album,
after playing slängpolskas with David Bastviken and contra dance music
with David Kaynor and jamming on crooked Quebecois tunes and dancing to zydeco
and playing for English dancing...All of that mixed with the rhythm of the
tires and the sight of the snow flying into the windshield, and this is what
came out.
Musicians:
Andrea Hoag: fiddle
Jacqueline Schwab: piano
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FIRE & WATER
Andrea Hoag
ACCD 9902
Produced by Bruce Molsky.
Recorded by Heidi Gerber at Bias Recording, Springfield, VA.
Mixed by Heidi Gerber, Andrea Hoag & Bruce Molsky at
Bias Recording, Springfield, VA.
Mastered by Charlie Pilzer at Airshow Mastering, Springfield, VA
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