Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas

Presented By: Caltech Folk Music Society

Don't miss this opportunity to hear Alasdair Fraser, Scottish fiddler extraordinaire and Natalie Haas on cello. Alasdair, now living in the Sierra Nevada foothills, has long been a favorite of his adopted country. He performs solo, as well as with groups as diverse as the Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Waterboys, and The Chieftains, and as a featured soloist along with Itzhak Perlman at New York's Lincoln Center. Acclaimed by the San Francisco Examiner as "the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling," Alasdair has a concert and recording career spanning 30 years, with a long list of awards, accolades, television credits, and features in top movie sountracks (including Last of the Mohicans and Titanic.

Natalie Haas started out as a student of Alasdair's at age 11, and they began performing together when she was 15. She adds a "percussive power to Alasdair's fiddle fireworks, providing syncopated, bowed underpinnings to his melodies and solos," according to Kira Schlecter of The Patriot News. They have two recordings together, In the Moment and Fire and Grace.