| Sandra Wong @ Notlob Concerts |
| Written by Keith Griffis |
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Sandra Wong was too young to remember, but her parents say she displayed a deep love of music from a very early age. With Beethoven's 5th as her nighttime lullaby, Sandra began studying the violin at age seven with the intention of becoming a concert violinist. This remained her sole focus for fifteen years until she discovered fiddling…and her entire musical world was turned upside down! Suddenly music became about connecting with other people in a joyful, communal way rather than an isolated striving for perfection. It began with Irish, Old-time and Bluegrass festival jams and has grown into her current livelihood of teaching, performing, recording and collaborating with other musicians from a diverse range of world music genres. In 1999, Sandra fell in love with a wonderful Swedish folk instrument called the nyckelharpa, a 16 stringed, keyed bowed instrument. It is now an integral part of her work and musical expression. Sandra has released two solo albums; “It’s About Time”(1999) and “Joy”(2000) and has two new albums out this year. The first is a collaboration with mandolinist Dominick Leslie covering original tunes and folk music from Sweden to Spain. This CD also features Grant Gordy - guitar, Eric Thorin - bass, Jayme Stone – banjo, and Ty Burhoe – tabla. The second is a duo album “Frolic & Romp” with fellow fiddler Ryan Drickey exploring folk dance music from contradance tunes to Swedish polskas on fiddles, nyckelharpa, banjo, and cello. Sandra has toured nationally and internationally appearing at festivals such as Vancouver Folk Festival, Festival Vancouver, Festival D’ete, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Calgary Folk Festival, Moab Music Festival, Swallow Hill and others as both a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians. http://www.sandrawongmusic.com http://www.myspace.com/sandrawongmusic BY INVITATION ONLY ~ email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for information. Pot luck dinner / BYOB ~ 7:00pm Concert ~ 8:00pm Free will offering ($10+ suggested) notfarG House Concerts ~ 100% of the donations go to the artists. Website ~ http://notlobmusic.googlepages.com Mailing list ~ http://www.reverbnation.com/venue/notfarghouseconcerts?add_email=true Facebook ~ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=147864099159&ref=ts About the series. notloB Concerts are volunteer run and not for profit. Whether presented at historic and intimate museum houses like the Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain or the Jackson Homestead in Newton, or at one of several church venues, or at private residences, all are run as house concerts where, after expenses, 100% of the patrons’ donations go to the artists. More information about the concert series can be found at the notloB website, http://notlobmusic.googlepages.com notloB Folk Concerts Bringing traditional American, Canadian, British, and Celtic folk, folk revival, world, blues, roots and bluegrass/newgrass music to Arlington, Newton, Somerville & Grafton "In this era of pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive." ~ Jack Hardy Learn more here: http://www.meetup.com/Mass-Music/calendar/12203471/
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