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.

A Celebration of Robert Burns The Almanac The Castle of the Holly King The Dawn of Joy Mistral Ragged, Rent and Torn Music of Waters

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

1. Daughters of Elvin: Medieval Songs of Love and Enchantment
2. Steve Tyler: Hurdy gurdy based multitrack music for the end of time
3. Misericordia: sickeningly good Medieval
4. Zhaba: psychedelic power meets hypnotic Bulgarian rhythms
5. Cheryl Ann Fulton: World-class performer and teacher of Medieval, Baroque, Welsh triple, Celtic and Concert harps.
6. Laura Inserra: the Hang, a new instrument from Switzerland
7. Kammen and Swan: a bright edge to traditional Celtic tunes
8. Yumi Kurosawa: melodic and mixed world tunes on Japanese Koto
9. Barry Phillips: Scandinavian folkish cello
10. Mundi: Early music meets global folk at the Penguin Café
11. Barbepeste Official Orchestra: Ahoy and shiver your timbers to some Irish World music with a smattering of pirates
12. Beth Quist: electro-Balkan / Indian meets New Age.
13. Francois Couture: Canadian composer, musician, orchestrator, arranger and sound designer
14. Anna Rynefors and Erik Ask Upmark: swedish folk music
15. Tim Rayborn: Medieval and Middle Eastern music
16. Fiddle Whamdiddle: foot-stomping, heart-pumping, head-bobbing music that snags audiences and reels them in!
17. Canconier: Medieval music from the 12th to the 15th centuries
18. Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
19. Suzanne Teng: world flute with a serene energy
20. Voices of Music: Lilting Renaissance & Baroque vocal interpretations