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August Week II Bass

Stuart Kenney

Instrument: Banjo, Bass
Session(s): August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I, June Weekend II, VMFC - Feb 2021
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II Banjo, August Week II Bass, June Week Bass, June Weekend I Bass, June Weekend II Banjo, Thumbing Birds

One of the most in demand upright bass, and five-string banjo players on the US contradance circuit, Stuart Kenney’s regional musical interests sweep from Southwest Louisiana to Acadia. He has a long career in many traditional music genres. His interest in Quebecois music formed through the fiddling of Lisa Ornstein, and performances by La Bottine Souriante. The inclusion of French Canadian music into the living tradition of New England contradance music caught his attention early on. (more…)

Mali Obomsawin

Instrument: Bass
Session(s): August Week II, June Week
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II Bass, June Week Bass

Mali Obomsawin is originally from Farmington, Maine, and grew up attending Maine Fiddle Camp for bass and mandolin. A Franklin County Fiddlers alumna, she went on to study jazz performance at Berklee College of Music for four semesters before transferring to Dartmouth College where she will graduate in 2018. Mali sings and plays bass in her nationally touring band Lula Wiles (who met at MFC!), and has performed at premier festivals and venues along the east coast. She has shared the stage with Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, Matt Glaser, Greg Liszt, Caitlin Canty, Stash Wyslouch, and Jason Annick, among others. (more…)

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