Thank you to the Washington Area Music Association and the Washington DC music community for nominating OCEAN for NINE Wammies: |
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 What do you get when you cross Scottish and Irish jigs with a rock and roll rhythm section; power-pop and classical symphonic themes with spine-tingling electronics? You get OCEAN, the intoxicating musical cocktail from genre-bending composer/bandleader Jennifer Cutting. Cutting directs an all-star ensemble of the Washington, D.C.-area's favorite Celtic musicians, ranging in size from an unplugged trio to a 7-piece acoustic-electric big band.The revolving lineup features Cutting on electronic keyboard and accordions; Lisa Moscatiello on vocals, whistle, and acoustic guitar; Zan McLeod on bouzouki, mandolin, and electric guitar; Steve Winick on vocals; Rico Petruccelli on electric bass; Danny Schwartz on drums; plus regional stars on fiddle and bagpipes. Alternately ethereal and house-rocking, an OCEAN concert features Cutting's newest electric folk arrangements of traditional tunes and her award-winning original songs. With its buoyant beats and soaring Celtic melodies, OCEAN provides an uplifting soundtrack for traveling hopefully on life's changing seas. Folk instruments such as button accordion, bagpipes, and fiddle join forces with pulsing electric bass, drums, and electronic keyboard for a sizzling synergy that will appeal to fans of folk, classical, and pop music alike. As much at home in the concert hall as on the festival stage, OCEAN tailors its performances to each kind of audience and venue. Audiences can lose themselves in dreamy reverie, or cut loose and dance to the propulsive beat of electric jigs and reels. It's a marriage of otherworldly Celtic beauty and raw World-Beat energy. There's nothing else like it anywhere...OCEAN is Celtic Music for Ancient Moderns! |
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