Album Notes

Her new CD entitled Bonnie Rideout - LIVE - with Jerry O'Sullivan features this delightful combination captured during a memorable evening in Washington, D.C. at the prestigious, THE BARNS at WOLFTRAP Concert Hall. "LIVE" delivers fresh compositions never before recorded spanning four hundred years of fiddle and pipe music from the rich Celtic culture of Rideout and O'Sullivan's heritage. Included are songs, poems, driving strathspeys, reels, and jigs. She rounds off a magical evening with moving authority and expression by way of an 18th century fiddle pibroch - the classical "large music" of the Great Highland bagpipe.

Quotes:

"Rideout's tone is pristine."- The New York Times

"Rideout clearly feels a spiritual connection with this music, displaying at times a rare combination of urgency and clarity."
- The Washington Post

"Bonnie Rideout's performances best evoke the lamenting call to the soul of the Highlander; of the diaspora to places such as Edinburgh and beyond." - The Glasgow Herald

"...dazzling fiddle playing from an authority in her genre!" - Billboard Magazine