Harvey Reid and Joyce Andersen
Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Harvey Reid has honed his craft over the last 30 years in countless clubs, festivals, streetcorners, cafes, schools and concert halls across the nation. He has been called a "giant of the steel strings" and "one of the true treaures of American acoustic music." He has absorbed a vast repertoire of American contemporary and roots music and woven it into his own colorful, personal and distinctive style. His 17 recordings on Woodpecker Records showcase his mastery of many instruments and styles of acoustic music, from hip folk to slashing slide guitar blues to bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, ragtime, and even classical.

Joyce Andersen has made a name for herself as a sought-after fiddler and session player in the Northeast for the last ten years, and has played in bluegrass, country, rock, jazz & celtic groups. During stints of playing and/or recording with The McKrells, John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys, Marshall Crenshaw, New England Bluegrass Band, Childsplay Fiddle Orchestra, John Herald, Eric Andersen and Sassygrass among others, her fiery fiddling has run the gamut from Nashville country, alt rock, swing, bluegrass, celtic and folk, to various traditional fiddle styles. Her travels have taken her from Carnegie Hall to the Conan O'Brien show, from the New England coffeehouses to her local pubs, from national folk festivals to houseconcerts, from Sweden to Japan. Now Andersen, a returned native of the Maine/New Hampshire seacoast, is getting attention for her songwriting which Scott Alarki of the Boston Globe said is both "steeped in tradition" and "fresh as tomorrow's newspaper."

The last 3 years, Andersen has teamed up with songwriter and acoustic guitar legend Harvey Reid to record the highly-acclaimed Great Sad River, and to do a lot of concert touring. Reid co-produced her first solo CD The Girl I Left Behind in 2000, which sparked the interest in her as a songwriter and singer. Her new release Right Where I Should Be is turningthe spotlight even more on her own sound that is at once rooted in traditional styles and contemporary. Her clear and powerful vocal/fiddle duets are a sound that is all her own.
-- text used with permission from the Sisters Folk Festival website.

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