Owen Kennedy, accompanied by Ethan Tischler Stokes, Fern Tamagini-O’Donnell

7 Fairbank Street,Harvard MA 01451

21 October, 2022

Description

Owen Kennedy is a seventeen-year-old fiddler from Maine whose love of traditional music and enthusiasm for performing has captivated audiences from San Diego to the Shetland Islands and all over New England. Owen's musicality and commitment to traditional music have been recognized with several awards, including the Junior US National Scottish Fiddle Champion title and the Young Stars of Maine "Glenn Jenks Future in Music” prize. He was selected for Best of All Things Irish from the Maine Irish Heritage Center and received a Passim Iguana Music Fund Grant for work on his debut album, Oh When: Now which will be available later this year. Owen performs with the Pineland Fiddlers, the Maine Folque Co-op, and Vermont’s Young Tradition Touring Group and has shared the stage with Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Genticorum, Pete Sutherland & Oliver Scanlon, Seán Heely, Andrea Beaton & Troy MacGillivray, and Owen Marshall. As an emerging musician rooted in the Maine Maritime tradition and immersed in his growing passion for Scottish music, Owen’s powerful playing charms audiences whether capturing the melancholy of a Scottish air, mimicking the sound of pipes in a march, or driving a good ol’ New England contradance tune. To follow Owen's journey and hear more, visit www.fiddlerokennedy.com or find him on social media @fiddlerokennedy. Owen will be supported by Ethan Tischler Stokes on guitar. Opening - Fern Tamagini-O'Donnell is a fiddler and Sean Nós style Irish dancer from Wareham, MA. She performs in Massachusetts, Vermont, and beyond, most recently at the Sutton Fiddle Fest in Quebec and the New World Festival in Vermont. Fern, with Hilary Menegaz Weitzner, won Vermont's 2022 Young Tradition Festival Contest.