Field
of Study: Celtic Fiddle
Ensemble:
Director, Fiddleheads
Education:
Studied with master fiddler Seamus Connolly
from 1990 to 1993 under a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts. Bachelor of Arts from Smith
College
Biographical
Information: A traditional Irish Fiddle player, Laurel teaches
Irish fiddle at Boston College and has taught and performed at
numerous
festivals
in the United States and in Ireland. Currently working on her
first solo CD, expected to be released in the autumn
of 2006.
Recordings: Laurel
and Seamus Connolly published a collection of traditional Irish
music, “Forget Me Not: Fifty Memorable Traditional Irish
Tunes” (MelBay, publisher) in 2002.
