Experimental folk music? You could get some flack over that one.....but I know what you mean, and I like it! Here are 3 of my favourites:

DEFINITELY Oliver Shroer's fiddle music. Start with his latest CD, called 'O2' (read: 'OH TWO', then move backwards in time through his other albums and the tapes, and you eventually get back to his very traditional fiddle roots. The evolution is fascinating. Solo, he can go anywhere, and does, yet he remains a solid backup fiddle player as well. He is extremely skillful, extremely creative, and extremely worth listening to....

ALONG the same lines is fiddler Moritz Behm. Mortitz plays with The Paperboys, but he has put out one solo CD entitled 'my anthem'. Moritz' background is classical violin, and he can back up any trad. band, but his solo CD takes off into another solar system. Very well done. Highly recommended.... MY HARP teacher Sharlene Wallace is always pushing the limits. Sharlene has 2 CD's out, and my favourite is 'The Rhyme and the River'. She makes her living playing classical harp, but fell in love with the Celtic harp several years ago. One way to insult her is to call her music 'beautiful'. She would prefer to push you over the edge....

websites:

Sharlene Wallace: Click here

Moritz Behm: Click here

Oliver Schroer: Click here
(Solo.
Soul Oh.
Fiddle reinventing itself
Alternate musical universes....)

~black walnut

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