Fiddler's Dream: Greg Spatz, by Caridwen and Greg Spatz

Fiddler's Dream: Greg Spatz

by Caridwen and Greg Spatz

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1.	Fiddler's Dream 02:41	info	buy track
2.	Caridwen's Waltz 03:08	info	buy track
3.	The Parting 02:59	info	buy track
4.	Valse Des Fourmis 02:25	info	buy track
5.	Rufty Tufty 02:00	info	buy track
6.	Bash Bish Falls 02:17	info	buy track
7.	Old Sport 03:17	info	buy track
8.	Lady Franklin's Dream 03:46	info	buy track
9.	Inisheer/The Blackbird 04:31	info	buy track
10.	Dream Angus 03:07	info	buy track
11.	Little Rabbit 03:34	info	buy track

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Greg Spatz
FIDDLER’S DREAM

“Fiddler’s Dream” is the debut solo recording of fiddle/bouzouki player Greg Spatz.

Greg is known primarily for his deft and tasteful fiddle work with the all-star bluegrass outfit, John Reischman and the Jaybirds. His fiddling can be heard on all of the Jaybirds recordings, most recently the critically acclaimed "On That Other Green Shore."

Greg’s bluegrass fiddle resume includes work with High Country, The Good Old Persons, Due West, Rob Ickes, Sally Van Meter, Mark Vann, Kathy Kallick, Frank Wakefield, and many others. Fiddler Magazine calls him a “world class fiddler” and Audiophile Audition says Greg is “One of the best and most underrated Bluegrass fiddlers in the business. His fluid bluesy virtuosic playing is flawlessly delivered time after time.”

“Fiddler’s Dream” collects into one volume music featuring the three groups in which Greg has had the privilege of working the past several years. In roughly equal portions: bluegrass fiddle originals and traditional fiddle tunes backed by John Reischman and the Jaybirds (with special guest Rob Ickes); twin-fiddle and Celtic-inflected vocal-bouzouki duets with his wife Caridwen Irvine-Spatz; and the eclectic old-time world-folk sound of Mighty Squirrel.

Greg has studied and played Irish music for many years now. Listeners will be delighted with the way he skillfully blends Celtic influences with a bluegrass attack to create his own, unique style of bouzouki accompaniment. Whether alone or with Mighty Squirrel, his bouzouki work is always the perfect complement to Caridwen Irvine-Spatz’s “expressive, flexible and utterly charming” voice (Audiophile Audition).

With several books of fiction to his credit and over 20 short story publications (including a story in The New Yorker), Greg is widely known for his fiction writing. Here he also takes a turn at tune-writing with two original fiddle tunes, “Bash Bish Falls” and “Caridwen’s Waltz.” Other songs included on “Fiddler’s Dream” were chosen for their relevance to Greg’s critically acclaimed most recent novel, also entitled Fiddler’s Dream.

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released November 6, 2020

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Caridwen and Greg Spatz Spokane, Washington

Caridwen and Greg Spatz are well known west coast folk musicians from Spokane WA. Greg plays fiddle with the popular bluegrass band John Reischman and the Jaybirds. Together he and Caridwen make up half of the acoustic world music quartet Mighty Squirrel. Caridwen plays Celtic, old-time and Klezmer fiddle and sings in English, French, Yiddish, Ladino and Gaelic. This is their first duo recording! ... more

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