{"id":7553,"date":"2012-04-30T09:26:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2013-02-07T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:08:26","slug":"unparalleled-fiddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/30\/unparalleled-fiddlers\/","title":{"rendered":"unparalleled fiddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get read for the next 45th Parallel concert &#8211; Greg Ewer&#8217;s brilliant addition to the local concert scene is presenting two of the best violinists\/fiddlers you&#8217;ll have occasion to witness this Thursday and Friday &#8211; May 4th and 5th at 8 PM &#8211; at the Old Church in Portland. Get your tickets <a title=\"BoxOfficeTickets.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/event?id=159765\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, before they&#8217;re gone!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7554 alignnone\" title=\"Kevhome\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Kevhome.jpg?resize=300%2C308\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/html_home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Burke<\/a> is a suave and slyly devilish Irish fiddler who has complete mastery of his instrument and musical genre. He&#8217;ll be joined by members of 45th Parallel and his long-time collaborator, guitarist Cal Scott, in his Irish Sessions Suite. Here&#8217;s a clip of Kevin doing his thing:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FGDki1kJG7s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7555\" title=\"headShot2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/headShot2-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gilles Apap<\/a> is an astonishing violinist. He crosses all genres and styles &#8211; playing everything from Mozart to Grapelli with equal mastery and virtuosity. The great violinist Sir Yehudi Menuhin called him &#8220;a true violinist for the 21st century&#8221;. Here he plays his incomparable cadenza to Mozart&#8217;s G major violin concerto:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VmjGDBWZZFw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get read for the next 45th Parallel concert &#8211; Greg Ewer&#8217;s brilliant addition to the local concert scene is presenting two of the best violinists\/fiddlers you&#8217;ll have occasion to witness this Thursday and Friday &#8211; May 4th and 5th at 8 PM &#8211; at the Old Church in Portland. Get your tickets here, before they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,135,21],"tags":[2076,3035,3037,3036,3666,3662],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-violin","tag-45th-parallel","tag-gilles-apap","tag-greg-ewer","tag-keven-burke","tag-oregon","tag-portland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1XP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18450,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/12\/portland-social-distance-ensemble-the-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":7553,"position":0},"title":"portland social distance ensemble &#8211; the series","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Friday was the debut of a new performance initiative of 45th Parallel Universe. 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