BANDS
“Donna’s fiddle speaks fluent français!” Scott Alarik, NPR’s “Hear and Now”
11/14/09 concert with Mist Covered Mountains, PACE Theater, Easthampton MA
Contact info at right
I love and play in more than one fiddle style, so I need more than one band to express myself! Here’s info on my performing groups!
Donna Hébert/Max Cohen
Celtic/French-Canadian duo, Fiddling Demystified string workshops, school fiddle residencies (certified in MA) – YouTube clip from 10/4/08 Mass Cultural Council “Keepers of Tradition” Concert.
Donna, Max and Molly Hebert-Wilson
Celtic & French-Canadian fiddle music and songs in French and Gaelic, with fingerstyle guitar. Trio with Molly Hebert-Wilson, Max Cohen. We feature Celtic and French-Canadian fiddling and contemporary folk music in our concerts, teaching workshops for guitar, fiddle, Gaelic singing.
Donna, Max, Jane in Phoenix, 2008
Groovemama
I play and teach with Jane Rothfield, Max Cohen, George Wilson, Stuart Kenney. We play Old-Time music and are also a contradance band, coaching Great Groove Bands at Old Songs (see photo below) and Philadelphia Folk Festivals.
Plus the Great Groove Band
of school age musicians that I founded and direct at the Old Songs & Philadelphia Folk Festivals:
Guest instructor April Verch (right) taught the 2008 Great Groove Band's 'chorus line' a simple step-dance combination for their Sunday main-stage performance
