SARA MILONOVICH & GREG ANDERSON
An exciting duo that combines the talents of two of contemporary music's most gifted musicians.
Sara is an award-winning fiddler, singer, and tunesmith who has been performing various roots, bluegrass, Celtic, and Appalachian music since she was 4 years old. She spent the past few years touring and recording with The Cathie Ryan Band, and previously played with NY Irish-newgrass band The McKrells. She has recorded with numerous artists, and can be heard on the Grammy-nominated CD by Pete Seeger, "At 89."
Greg is a multi-instrumentalist who co-founded the acclaimed Celtic-fusion group Whirligig. Currently the guitarist with The Eileen Ivers Band, he has also performed and recorded with many diverse international artists, including Susan McKeown, The Klezmatics, Cathie Ryan, and Doctor Nerve, among others.
Playing a vibrant mix of contemporary and traditional songs and tunes from across the musical spectrum, Sara and Greg's music incorporates eclectic flavors from other countries and planets, as well as soulful compositions of their own. They have earned accolades for their fresh interpretations of music from many different genres, and for crisscrossing stylistic boundaries - combining a firm grounding in a wide range of folk forms with a rich palette of modern and world music influences.
Since joining forces in 2004, they have toured throughout the US and Europe. Their debut CD, "Forward In All Directions!," made the Top Ten in the Village Voice 'Pazz & Jop' Critics Poll for 2004.
SARA MILONOVICH
Sara is an award-winning fiddler, singer, and tunesmith who has been performing throughout the US and Europe as a solo artist, bandleader and in various collaborations in the roots, folk-rock, bluegrass, Celtic, and Appalachian music scenes. She has worked with artists such as Pete Seeger, Richard Shindell, Cathie Ryan, Anne Hills, and Leslie Ritter and Scott Petito, among others.
From 1999 - 2002 she toured the US and Ireland as a member of the Celtic/bluegrass/roots band The McKrells. Her tune, Cead Caloigne Sneachta (The First Snowfall), from the McKrell's holiday album Merry Christmas, placed 6th in the 2001 Just Plain Folks Awards for best holiday song. Her fiddle and voice (and flute and whistles) were also featured on their 2002 CD Hit The Ground Running. In June 2001, Sara traveled to Mt. Airy, North Carolina with John Kirk & Trish Miller, where she competed in both the Bluegrass Fiddle and Folk Song contests, placing first and second, respectively. She has performed with various classical ensembles throughout New York State, including the Empire State Youth and Repertory Orchestras, several string quartets, and with members of the Albany, Glens Falls, and Schenectady Symphonies. In 1998 she released the CD Mrs. Ippy Fiddle, under the name Sara Miles (as her last name was often mispronounced), which was a nominated semifinalist for the 1999 Grammy awards.
GREG ANDERSON
As a multi-instrumentalist playing in a variety of musical genres, Greg has performed and recorded with a long list of artists in the folk and traditional music worlds, as well as with many in the fields of rock, jazz, and contemporary music, including Eileen Ivers, Cathie Ryan, Susan McKeown, Richard Shindell, Tommy Sands, Seán Tyrrell, Steeleye Span fiddler Peter Knight, folk-blues singer Dave Moore, Irish flute sensation Emer Mayock, and button accordion greats James Keane and John Whelan. His contributions can be heard on many of these artists' recent CDs.
He has been the bassist for 14 years with the avant-rock band Doctor Nerve, with whom he has recorded 8 albums. He played with the progressive Klezmer-jazz group The Klezmatics, and accompanied them on tours of Itzhak Perlman's In The Fiddler's House. In the 1980s, he worked with renowned Indian violinist L. Shanker, and also played bass and keyboards in the seminal post-punk new wave band ibm. Most recently, he led the celtic fusion group Whirligig. Also a much sought after producer and arranger, Greg is considered to be an expert at blending traditional music with contemporary sounds and production values.
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