Some of you lovely music supervisors have come to me looking for east coast fiddle music, and I’m happy to announce I have a fantastic new name to add to the roster! Enter Chrissy Crowley, from Cape Breton. Her album “Last Night’s Fun” includes originals and traditional arrangements, and The Canadian Folk Music Awards sent her home with “Instrumental Solo Recording of the Year” in 2013.
Check out a glowing review from The Guardian (UK) below, and the video of Chrissy in action above. Hit me up if you need some of this flavour for your projects!
xo,
-JB
“A seriously swinging Cape Breton Fiddler. Some things just seem predetermined, inevitable, unavoidable. And so it is with the chosen vocation of one Chrissy Crowley. Born into a large family steeped in the ways of Celtic music, this unfeasibly young fiddler has taken on the twin mantels of both protecting and promoting the sounds of her native Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, the region where Celtic music prospers thanks to the Scottish, Irish and French-Acadian backgrounds of its residents. It’s when she picks up her fiddle that she undertakes the true ambassadorial role, the sound of Cape Breton history emerging with every thrust of her bow. While technically flawless, Chrissy’s playing also swings along with a sense of youthful mischief, while her natural curiosity will surely see her expanding the Cape Breton tradition in years to come. For now though, give your ears and heart over to a spellbindingly precocious talent.”
-Nige Tassell The Guardian (UK) 2012
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