Donna Hébert bio
“Her fiddle speaks fluent français!” Scott Alarik, NPR’s “Hear and Now”
“Fiddling Demystified should be required reading for all string teachers hoping to branch out into fiddling.” Laura Risk, Strings Magazine, 9/09.
Great Groove Band, main stage, 2009 Philly Folk Fest, with Groovemama
Media kit w/audio/bio/video
Performances with:
- Max Cohen - fiddle-guitar duo
- Mist Covered Mountains Celtic & contemporary folk trio with Max Cohen & Molly Hébert-Wilson
- Groovemama – Donna with Max Cohen, Jane Rothfield, Molly Hebert-Wilson & Stuart Kenney, coaching the Great Groove Bands at Old Songs & Philly Folk Festivals
Recordings:
In Full Bloom is Donna’s best CD ever! Un vrai délice!” Benoit Bourque. In Full Bloom / En pleine floraison” French-Canadian fiddling with Pascal Gemme, Max Cohen, André Brunet, Rachel Aucoin, Sabin Jacques, Stuart Kenney, Marie Soleil-Pilette and Denis Fréchette. Online downloads of the last song, “A Place Called Beautiful,” benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund in honor of Franco-American artist Martha Pellerin. New companion tunebook is available online with CD.
New duet CD with guitarist and co-writer Max Cohen: ”Orange on Blue/L’orange sur bleu” - released this winter.
Donna’s other CDs include
- 2009 - Donna Hébert: In Full Bloom/en pleine floraison book & CD- available in store
- 2008 - Fiddling Demystified book / Fiddlejam CDs - available in store
- 2008 - Beaudoin Legacy
- 1999 - Donna Hébert: Big Boned Beauty - available in store
- 1999 - Mademoiselle voulez vous danser? (Smithsonian/Folkways)
- 1996 - Chanterelle: Soirée chez nous - available in store
- 1994 - Chanterelle: French in America
- 1987 - Rude Girls: Rude Awakening (1988 Indie Award, Best String Band)
- 1981, 1995 – The Grumbling Old Woman tunebook
- 1977 - Gerry Robichaud: Maritime Dance Party
- 1977 - Yankee Ingenuity: Kitchen Junket
Lessons, workshops, summer camps & residencies:
Donna Hébert’s classes, workshops and residencies demonstrate the innovative right and left-hand teaching methods documented in her Fiddling Demystified for Strings teaching series.
Donna is taking a sabbatical summer from running her own camp, which returns in 2013. In winter 2012 she will be teaching and performing at the John C. Campbell Folk School in NC, the Chattanooga Folk School, the Midwinter Celtic Festival in MD and the Blackstone River Theatre in RI. Next summer, the trio teaches and performs at the Goderich, Ontario’s Celtic College and Celtic Festival. Donna also directs the Great Groove Bands for young musicians at Old Songs and Philadelphia Folk Festivals. Calendar . . .
Donna offers online video chat lessons for long-distance learning. Students in November 2011 are from Brooklyn, Buffalo, Alaska, Canada and Melbourne, Australia. Most students re-enroll once the first ten lessons are completed. Some students are still studying online with Donna two years later.
