Artist Info: Lowlander Highlanders

Driving and precise, the fiddle music of the Northern Appalachian Mountains has strong roots in the Celtic music of the Scots and the Irish. The ornamentation is specific and traditional. The music was made for the country dances of the northern climes.

Originally from upstate New York and now a longtime resident of Pennsylvania, fiddler, Beverley Conrad, celebrates her northern roots with the music of the Lowlander Highlanders. Adding the rhythm of the Bodrhan drum and other percussion instruments [read more...]