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Join us for an evening of Scottish fiddle with some of Boston's younger starts. Isabel Oliart is a Boston-based fiddler spanning the the worlds of Classical and Celtic fiddle music. She earned a BA from New England Conservatory in 2019, and an MA in Violin Performance from Boston University in 2024, where she also won the Bach Competition.
She won the 2025 National Scottish Fiddle Championship, and has been a first-place winner of the New Hampshire Highland Games Fiddle Competition (2023), and the Scottish F.I.R.E. Composition Competition (2021). Isabel’s music has been featured on GBH’s A Celtic Sojourn and on NPR’s Says You. She has released two albums: ‘Late Evening’s Dram’ and ‘Tartan Rants and Rhapsodies’. She has performed at the Rockport Celtic Festival, Groton Hill Music Center, BCM fest, the Burren, Club Passim, the Loon Mountain Highland Games, and numerous other venues across New England. She was also part of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra for many years and has subbed with the Albany Symphony and the New World Symphony Orchestra.
Kyra Davies is a Boston-based violinist and fiddler whose multilayered performance career has taken her from San Diego, California to Siena, Italy. She can be found performing in arenas, concert halls, intimate house venues, or circus tents, with artists including The Who and the Eagles, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, and bands. Kyra specializes in contemporary music and has premiered dozens of pieces, both as a chamber musician and with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
In 2025, Kyra was crowned the New England Regional Open Scottish Fiddle Champion. With her duo project Mrs. Wilberforce and other groups, she has performed music from Scotland, Ireland, and other Celtic-influenced traditions at venues around New England. She regularly accompanies Scottish country dances and leads Scottish and Irish sessions.
Guitarist Eamon Sefton was born and raised on traditional music from Ireland, Scotland, and Cape Breton and has established himself as one of the top fretted instrument players in the American Celtic music scene. In addition to being a master of several acoustic instruments, Eamon is a heartfelt singer/songwriter. He has performed both locally and internationally with some of the top traditional musicians inside and out of the US, including Liz Carroll, Alasdair Fraser, John Doyle, Hanneke Cassel and many others. Eamon was the 2026 champion of the adult Accompaniment category at the all-Ireland traditional music CCE competitions held in Belfast.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Medford Arts Council, a local commission that is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the City of Medford.
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Arts Collaborative Medford, 99 Whyte St, Medford, MA 02155-61ND, United States
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