Jamie Laval
Shades of Green
© 2003 Jamie Laval (678277054523)
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Expressive Celtic tradition and innovation: Fiddle Champion's subtle arrangements run the gamut from tender and melancholy to wildy jubilant. "Tune after tune evokes an ancient tradition of the music of Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany" (Albany Herald)
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One of the premier Celtic violinist/fiddlers on the international music scene today, Jamie Laval consistently creates rapt audiences with his intensely passionate performances that run the gamut from wildly jubilant to tender and melancholy.
Winner of the 2002 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Championship, Jamie was recently heralded in Scotland as "A new star for the Old world" (FiddleOn Magazine). The Olympian newspaper in Washington State reported, "A fantastic fiddler...Laval captures the essence of Celtic sentiment and yearning"; and a Virginia concert promoter raved, "Unbelievable!..I have never seen a better band on this stage."
In the recording studio Jamie is widely respected for his solos on the soundtracks for the Emmy-nominated T.V. drama Everwood, numerous movies including Wild America and Finding home, and for his participation in Dave Matthews' latest CD Some Devil.
Jamie's CD Shades of Green has received unanimous critical praise and nationwide radio airplay, eliciting reviews such as, "tune after tune evokes an ancient tradition of Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany...Fiona's Waltz is one of the most moving fiddle pieces I've heard in a long time." (Albany Democrat Herald)
The Jamie Laval Trio was the first American band ever invited to perform at the Scots Fiddle Festival, the acclaimed traditional music festival held every year in Edinburgh. Other major performances include The Yachats Celtic Festival in Oregon, The Freight & Salvage in California, the Northwest Folklife Festival's Fiddler Showcase in Washington, and a private appearence for Her Majesty The Queen of England. Jamie has also participated in the touring shows of k.d. Lang, Rod Stewart and Céline Dion.
Jamie's music making is born out of his Scottish and Irish roots. After his student years at the Victoria Conservatory of Music he traveled extensively, immersing himself in a wide variety of musical styles including classical, jazz, and folk. Jamie now resides in Seattle.
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love it!!!!
author: melanieMy husband and I saw Jamie and Ashley in Newman,Ca and I enjoyed their music so much I hunted down the cd. Its wonderful. If you like celtic or violin you will enjoy this.
Shades of Green
author: Carolyn WylieMy whole family really enjoys this CD - wonderful relaxing listening!
Our new favorite!
author: JenniferThis is our new favorite CD!! I love to listen to it on long road trips, and it even helps my three-year-old goes to sleep at night. It reminds me of a cool summer evening in the mountains. A great purchase!
Superb!
author: Helen WelbornOver the years, I've bought copies of this CD for just about everybody I know. Okay, I exaggerate, but not by much. This CD is packed w/ expression, anticipation, reflection, and conversation.... it is flawless, in both musical technique and composition. This music will take you for a long, long ride through some of the most gorgeous musical terrain that has ever existed. If you've not heard Mr. Laval play, be prepared to have your world rocked...
Saw Jamie live--this CD is almost as good!
author: BethA lively, atmospheric, romantic, whimsical, and truly awe-inspiring collection of songs from a master fiddler. I could listen to this all day, and sometimes do.
I love it!!!!
author: MoiI love it too!!!! I play it everynight to help me to get to sleep. It is my alltime favourite CD!!!!!!!!!!
Still my favorite CD--I love it unconditionally!
author: AndreaThis has been my favorite CD for over a year now. It has everything--heartfelt emotional power, totally-unpretentious virtuosity, a tasty variety of tempo and tune-type, and more beautiful melodies in one place than I've heard in a long time. Not one disappointing cut!
Melodious candy to the ear
author: MarkEnergetic smooth yet gracious, powerful, symphonic Celtic fiddle tunes. Imaginative melodies that bring the charm of Celtic and Gaelic sounds into your mind.
Super artist. Will buy another!!!
author: RosalieNice variety and an excellent musician. I was hoping to hear more like his latest I have heard in person. But not dissapoined at all!!
This CD completely blew me away!
author: PtollemyI've been listening to Irish and Celtic music for many years, and sometimes I think I am hard to impress, but this CD completely blew me away! more please :)
makes me wish I was sitting in a pub in Galway
author: margaret stewartThis CD is a beautiful rendition of celtic music that will feed your soul. Jamie is a master fiddler and his playing comes from the heart.
- author: Tamara Turner, CD Baby
Fiddle champion Jamie Laval equally deserves a medal for his exceptional musical expressivity, for beyond technique and delivery, there is an embedded soul in his playing, giving off the quality of a human voice, speaking directly from the body and rising up from the particles of the earth holding it together. With his own, mesmerizing arrangements of popular and beloved Celtic tunes, beautifully colored with his own soaring emotion, "Shades of Green" travels the backroads of Connemara to the bustling pubs of Cork to the majesty of the Scottish highlands with its tone, truly capturing the diverse yet wholly distinct spirit of these lands. Fiddle, folk, Irish "trad" and acoustic fans alike will be ecstatic. Beyond the flying of fingers and sawing of the bow is a palpable spirit, a tangible passion charming the air, filling his listeners with memory and emotion. Hope bubbling over, love uncontained, absolute yearning from the raw gut of the heart.