Shira Kammen
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GenresEarly Music, Folk Music
Instrument(s)Vielle, Fiddle, Viola da Gamba, Harp and Voice
LabelsBright Angel Records
Websitewww.shirakammen.com
Shira Kammen | |
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 At the 2007 Port Townsend Early Music Workshop | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | Early Music, Folk Music |
| Instrument(s) | Vielle, Fiddle, Viola da Gamba, Harp and Voice |
| Labels | Bright Angel Records |
| Website | www.shirakammen.com |
Shira Kammen is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.
She received her degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. She has performed and taught throughout the world and has played on several television and movie soundtracks, including "O", a modern high school-setting of Othello.[1] Her music was also licensed for the soundtrack of the video game Braid.
She currently lives in El Cerrito, California.
Shira collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for fifteen years, and has been or is a member of or worked with a number of different groups:
- Founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips.
- The Boston Camerata[2]
- Camerata Mediterranea
- Cançonièr, a medieval ensemble
- Ensemble Alcatraz
- Ephemeros new music group
- Fortune's Wheel, a medieval ensemble
- Hespèrion XX
- The King's Noyse[3]
- Medieval Strings
- Panacea, an eclectic ethnic band
- Project Ars Nova[4]
- Sequentia
- Trouz Bras, a band devoted to the dance music of Celtic Brittany
- Joanna Newsom, an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; Kammen plays the vielle and the rebec in the song "Kingfisher" on the 2010 album Have One On Me.[5]
