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Shira Kammen: Early folk and celtic music..

Shira Kammen received her degree in music from UC Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans.

A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, and the King's Noyse, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips.

She has performed and taught in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Israel, Morocco and Japan, and on the Colorado and Rogue rivers. Shira happily collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for fifteen years, and performs now with several new groups: a medieval ensemble, Fortune's Wheel; a new music group, Ephemeros; an eclectic ethnic band, Panacea; and Trouz Bras, a band devoted to the dance music of Celtic Brittany.

  Shira Kammen

[A Celebration of Robert Burns by Shira Kammen]

A Celebration of Robert Burns

[The Almanac by Shira Kammen]

The Almanac

[The Castle of the Holly King by Shira Kammen]

The Castle of the Holly King

[The Dawn of Joy by Shira Kammen]

The Dawn of Joy

[Mistral by Shira Kammen]

Mistral

[Ragged, Rent and Torn by Shira Kammen]

Ragged, Rent and Torn

[Music of Waters by Shira Kammen]

Music of Waters
Shira Kammen lives in California, USA.

Tagged as: World, Folk, Medieval, Folk, Celtic.

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