North Carolina violinist/fiddler Andrew Finn Magill returns to Northeast State bringing the musical sounds of the enchanted island to Appalachia.
Magill discusses and performs music from his project “Music Across Ireland” on October 31 at 12:00 p.m. in L106 of Wayne Basler Library on the Blountville campus.
Magill is a Fulbright Fellow and a South Arts Emerging Traditional Artist. His resume includes being a North Carolina Arts Council Fellow, an All-Ireland Fiddle finalist, and a Ropeadope Records recording artist. He has been featured on MTV-U, PBS, and multiple times on NPR. His 2016 album, Roots, debuted at number #46 on the folk DJ charts. He has released an additional six albums.
In 2018, leveraging a background in both traditional Irish and American music, Magill created the lecture series “The relationships between Irish, Scottish, and American fiddle styles: an Immigration Story,” which is a musical presentation for adults that explores the connections between these styles through their fiddle tunes. Magill has given this lecture at dozens of universities and museums across the country, including Shepherd, Mars Hill, and the University of Kentucky, among others.
His newest recording, The Polaris Project, is an ambitious album of ten original pieces written for an electric jazz quartet that synthesize Magill’s years living and working as a musician in Ireland, Malawi, Ghana, Brazil and the southern United States.
Finn has received acclaim from some of the foremost jazz violinists on the planet, including Downbeat’s No. 1 Rising Star of the Violin, Christian Howes, Snarky Puppy’s Zach Brock, who says Magill displays “effortless virtuosity,” and Berklee College’s Matt Glaser, who calls him “an extraordinary violin virtuoso.”
The concert is sponsored by Northeast State’s International Education Committee. For more information, visit www.northeaststate.edu or email internationaled@northeaststate.edu.
North Carolina violinist/fiddler Andrew Finn Magill returns to Northeast State bringing the musical sounds of the enchanted island to Appalachia.
Magill discusses and performs music from his project “Music Across Ireland” on October 31 at 12:00 p.m. in L106 of Wayne Basler Library on the Blountville campus.
Magill is a Fulbright Fellow and a South Arts Emerging Traditional Artist. His resume includes being a North Carolina Arts Council Fellow, an All-Ireland Fiddle finalist, and a Ropeadope Records recording artist. He has been featured on MTV-U, PBS, and multiple times on NPR. His 2016 album, Roots, debuted at number #46 on the folk DJ charts. He has released an additional six albums.
In 2018, leveraging a background in both traditional Irish and American music, Magill created the lecture series “The relationships between Irish, Scottish, and American fiddle styles: an Immigration Story,” which is a musical presentation for adults that explores the connections between these styles through their fiddle tunes. Magill has given this lecture at dozens of universities and museums across the country, including Shepherd, Mars Hill, and the University of Kentucky, among others.
His newest recording, The Polaris Project, is an ambitious album of ten original pieces written for an electric jazz quartet that synthesize Magill’s years living and working as a musician in Ireland, Malawi, Ghana, Brazil and the southern United States.
Finn has received acclaim from some of the foremost jazz violinists on the planet, including Downbeat’s No. 1 Rising Star of the Violin, Christian Howes, Snarky Puppy’s Zach Brock, who says Magill displays “effortless virtuosity,” and Berklee College’s Matt Glaser, who calls him “an extraordinary violin virtuoso.”
The concert is sponsored by Northeast State’s International Education Committee. For more information, visit www.northeaststate.edu or email internationaled@northeaststate.edu.
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