About Roots Academy for Early and Traditional Music
A program of the Rogue World Ensemble
Two of the area’s leading specialists in the performance of Traditional, Folk and Early Music, offering classes, workshops, lecture-demos, master classes, concerts and other enrichment programs for musicians and music lovers.
These two are both well established in the realm of traditional and early music, with deep knowledge in bagpipes of the world, Irish music, renaissance and medieval music, medieval vielle, vielle a roue, capped reeds, shawms, recorders, percussion and vocal styles from around the world and reaching back six hundred years into the past.
For more information about classes and performances, call: (541) 482-9757
Or write to: [email protected] and/or [email protected]
A program of the Rogue World Ensemble
Two of the area’s leading specialists in the performance of Traditional, Folk and Early Music, offering classes, workshops, lecture-demos, master classes, concerts and other enrichment programs for musicians and music lovers.
These two are both well established in the realm of traditional and early music, with deep knowledge in bagpipes of the world, Irish music, renaissance and medieval music, medieval vielle, vielle a roue, capped reeds, shawms, recorders, percussion and vocal styles from around the world and reaching back six hundred years into the past.
For more information about classes and performances, call: (541) 482-9757
Or write to: [email protected] and/or [email protected]
BIOS of the ROOTS Directors
Bio Kevin Carr Fiddler, Piper, teller of tales
KC is a soulful and exciting multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, various bagpipes and other stringed instruments, whose style draws from Irish, Quebecois, Appalachian and bagpiping roots. His performances are a mix of stories, fiddle and pipe tunes from traditional sources around the world. The sounds of Galician, Irish, Slovakian, French or Scottish pipes often punctuate his shows.
Kevin has taught at Festival of American fiddle tunes, Alsadair Fraser's Sierra fiddle camp, Puget Sound Guitar workshop, Lark Camp and a host of other music camps across the country, and performed in concerts and at dances in Europe, Canada and the USA for thirty years, both solo and with The Hillbillies from Mars ( eclectic trad), Les Tetes de Violon ( quebecois ), Wake the Dead ( Celtic Grateful Dead), and with Men of Worth's Celtic Christmas. He also currently plays with the Family Carr, which includes his wife Josie Mendelsohn, and son and daughter, Daniel and Molly Carr
KC is a soulful and exciting multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, various bagpipes and other stringed instruments, whose style draws from Irish, Quebecois, Appalachian and bagpiping roots. His performances are a mix of stories, fiddle and pipe tunes from traditional sources around the world. The sounds of Galician, Irish, Slovakian, French or Scottish pipes often punctuate his shows.
Kevin has taught at Festival of American fiddle tunes, Alsadair Fraser's Sierra fiddle camp, Puget Sound Guitar workshop, Lark Camp and a host of other music camps across the country, and performed in concerts and at dances in Europe, Canada and the USA for thirty years, both solo and with The Hillbillies from Mars ( eclectic trad), Les Tetes de Violon ( quebecois ), Wake the Dead ( Celtic Grateful Dead), and with Men of Worth's Celtic Christmas. He also currently plays with the Family Carr, which includes his wife Josie Mendelsohn, and son and daughter, Daniel and Molly Carr
Pat O'Scannell, singer, multi-instrumentalist, director/arranger
"...gripping arrangements", (Mittelbayrische Zeitung)
"in the instrumentation...everything has a very fluid and organic sense." (Almanach, Tage Alter und Neue Musik 2000, Regensburg Germany).
"The pieces as a whole had a compositional sense about them which I admire very much...reminds me a bit of the tune Bizet uses..." (Bill McLaughlin, host of St. Paul Sunday Morning)
"You whip up a different kind of storm," (Bill McLaughlin, St. Paul Sunday Morning)
These are a few of the comments regarding the group and O'Scannell's musical contributions to the field of Early Music, as an arranger, receiving critical acclaim as director & performer for the Terra Nova Consort both at the prestigious Regensburg festival where the group made its European debut in 2000, and while touring in Indiana, Vermont, Victoria BC and California. Since that time TNC has performed in Mexico, Milwaukie, Kentucky and has returned to both Houston and Washington D.C..
O’Scannell was the founding director and instructor for Southern Oregon’s Collegium Musicum program, co-sponsored by the Music Department and Continuing Education Departments. The course, subtitled: Playing Early Music, provided a hands on environment for students at various levels to learn about performance practice in Medieval and Renaissance music, while gaining some technique on instruments that are new to them, or on which they already have some facility. The program was in place from 2003-2007.
O'Scannell's experience teaching various facets of Early Music include classes offered through the Elderhostel, Senior Ventures, Shakespeare Studies and Continuing Education programs at Southern Oregon University. She has served on a jury of instructors for the SOU Music Department as well, and has been included in the Arts in Education and other State sponsored programs as well as been on the roster for Seattle's Early Music educational outreach program.
"...gripping arrangements", (Mittelbayrische Zeitung)
"in the instrumentation...everything has a very fluid and organic sense." (Almanach, Tage Alter und Neue Musik 2000, Regensburg Germany).
"The pieces as a whole had a compositional sense about them which I admire very much...reminds me a bit of the tune Bizet uses..." (Bill McLaughlin, host of St. Paul Sunday Morning)
"You whip up a different kind of storm," (Bill McLaughlin, St. Paul Sunday Morning)
These are a few of the comments regarding the group and O'Scannell's musical contributions to the field of Early Music, as an arranger, receiving critical acclaim as director & performer for the Terra Nova Consort both at the prestigious Regensburg festival where the group made its European debut in 2000, and while touring in Indiana, Vermont, Victoria BC and California. Since that time TNC has performed in Mexico, Milwaukie, Kentucky and has returned to both Houston and Washington D.C..
O’Scannell was the founding director and instructor for Southern Oregon’s Collegium Musicum program, co-sponsored by the Music Department and Continuing Education Departments. The course, subtitled: Playing Early Music, provided a hands on environment for students at various levels to learn about performance practice in Medieval and Renaissance music, while gaining some technique on instruments that are new to them, or on which they already have some facility. The program was in place from 2003-2007.
O'Scannell's experience teaching various facets of Early Music include classes offered through the Elderhostel, Senior Ventures, Shakespeare Studies and Continuing Education programs at Southern Oregon University. She has served on a jury of instructors for the SOU Music Department as well, and has been included in the Arts in Education and other State sponsored programs as well as been on the roster for Seattle's Early Music educational outreach program.