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With National Scottish Fiddle Champion and Boston-area, classical, orchestral violinist Anne Hooper: Anne and Jacqueline perform Scottish fiddle music, which, with its primal, driving rhythms and lyrical, violinistic expressiveness, has long straddled the folk and classical worlds. They celebrate both influences on their playing with their interwoven arrangements of traditional tunes, old and new—dramatic strathspeys, lilting jigs, toe-tapping reels and tender airs—evoking old Scottish castles, stark isles with primitive standing stones, and modern ceilidh sessions. Anne also performs with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Boston Philharmonic and the Quincy Symphony (concert master).She  was winner of the 1993 and 1998 U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Championships and performs with the dance band Tullochgorum.

With Celtic fiddler Rose Clancy: Rose and Jacqueline perform out-of-the-box, traditional Celtic music, with a Cape Cod flavor. Their performances merge Rose’s lilting bow and rich, imaginative phrasing with Jacqueline’s colorful harmonies and improvisational, flowing arrangements. They perform Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, and New England fiddle tunes, featuring unusual, hard-driving, quirky-but-beautiful tunes but also lyrical, reflective airs. Out of the wellspring of her family’s much-beloved Clancy Tradition band, Rose’s fiddling and her performances with her band with Max Cohn, John Alden and Gene Clancy are well known on Cape Cod and beyond.

With alto saxophonist Willie Sordillo: Willie and Jacqueline perform their current version of Soul, Spirit and Step—Vintage American Music for Steinway and Sax. Their collaboration unites their different repertoires and styles with their shared interest in music’s power to reach the spirit and connect people in community. Together, they create an exciting improvisational sound, with energy and heart. Anchoring their programs are African-American spirituals, as well as Latin music, jazz, vintage American tunes, Pete Seeger songs and other folk music. Willie has performed with/opened for Pete Seeger, Ruben Blades, Kurt Elling, Richie Havens, Avery Sharpe and Tito Puente and has contributed music to several films and the television show ER. He has served as music director for a weekly jazz worship service at Old South Church in Boston since 2005. He currently performs with jazz singer Zoe Krohne.

With recorder player Emily O’Brien: Emily and Jacqueline explore an unusual, engaging repertoire of music for recorder and piano, some composed, others improvised. Solace—Recorder Player Emily O’Brien and Pianist Jacqueline Schwab in Concert: Music from WW I – WW II and Soliloquy and Frolic—Recorder Player Emily O’Brien and Pianist Jacqueline Schwab in Concert. Boston-area musician Emily studied recorder and french horn at Boston University and recorder and Baroque flute at the Hochschule fur Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany. She performs in recorder and historical chamber music ensembles. Her first solo recording Fantasies for a Modern Recorder features repertoire made possible by recent developments in recorder making, including newly-commissioned works and 19th- and 20th-century works written for flute.

MUSIC AND SPOKEN WORD

With storyteller Susan Frontczak: Susan and Jacqueline met many years ago at a traditional dance workshop week and, after long wishing to collaborate on Service’s The Shooting of Dan McGrew, have created Story in Music & Music in Story, they also perform Mark Twain’s America. They have performed together at coffee houses and concert halls in Denver, Boulder, Golden and Longmont, CO. Boulder, CO actress Susan Marie Frontczak’s storytelling has grown out of her love of literature and history. She has told stories and performed her one-woman shows about Marie Curie, Mary Shelley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Irene Castle and Clara Barton in forty states in the US, and in Canada and Europe. “We were spellbound by the virtuosity of her voice and gesture, intellectual challenge and emotional involvement.”—Dr. Bowles, Theater Chair, Colorado University, Denver. Her Storysmith® motto: “Give me a place to stand, and I will take you somewhere else.”

With Gregory Williams: Battle Lines—Poetry and Music of World War I meditates on the relentless, pointless brutality of World War I, as beautifully chronicled by some of England’s finest poets of the period. Classical pieces (by Ravel and Elgar) along with popular and folk music of the times set the mood and comment on the poetry. Greg and Jacqueline have performed this program on Veterans Day (originally entitled Armistice Day, commemorating World War I) on Cape Cod. A short cameo performance of the elegiac “The Flowers of the Forest,” by stirring Scottish piper Sarah Ford Marchio, can cap off the performance, if budget allows. Greg Williams was a Massachusetts District Court judge for 15 years, and before that an Assistant Attorney General and private-practice litigator. He also holds a Master's in English (20th-century British literature) from the University of London, emblematic of his life-long love of writing. Since retirement, he has fostered that love and an interest in history and has presented many programs on historical topics on Cape Cod.