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Fiddler's Feast
'Frenzee'

Fiddler's Feast signs to Rouseabout for their 5th album – Frenzee.

Rouseabout Records has signed Australia's premier Celtic music group and is set to send the strings flying! Fiddler's Feast is the name of the band and, as you would expect, it is driven by fiddle music. Established several years back by Marcus Holden, also well known for his role in establishing the National Fiddle Festival, and as the fiddle player on a heck of a lot of Australian recordings including Mark 'Diesel' Lizotte and Richard Clapton, to name just two. The band has recently changed its name from Fiddler's Festival to Fiddler's Feast, reflecting its growing popularity and to avoid confusion with festivals. It's still the same band, highly inventive and highly charged, and always up for a new musical challenge. Above all, it is a music that possesses great fun, vitality and an Australian perspective.  

Boldly splitting genres that no one has split before, Fiddler's Feast play music that is difficult to box. It is vibrant, innovative and zips from Celtic to tongue-in-cheek classical, from twisted jazz classics to rock and reel. The fiddlers are the driving force - Mark Oats and Clare O'Meara (both members of The Bushwackers) and Marcus Holden - with a powerful 'engine room' comprised of Garry Steel (accordions and keyboards), John Coker (bass) and Rodney Ford (drums). The band members also play several other instruments including mandolin, guitars, piano, Theremin, loops and whistles.

Fiddler's Feast play all the big Australian festivals including the National Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival and Woodford. In addition they host their own concert series at the annual Country Music Festival in Tamworth. They have toured Japan (and return again in 2006) and this year will feature for the ten days (and nights) of the prestigious Festival Inter Celtique in Brittany, France.

Fiddler’s Feast will be launching Frenzee Tuesday 22nd August at The Basement in Sydney.

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Fiddler's Feast
'Frenzee' (Album)
Catalogue Number RRR40

 

Frenzee, the new Rouseabout album & the band's 5th, is a ripper-roaring collection and features some mighty guest artists including George Washingmachine, Adrian Keating, Rosemary Byron, Adrian Bent, Nadia Kelvin, Michelle Kelly on fiddles, Willy Qua on saxophone and drums, Shane Flew and Peter Kennard on percussion , Andrew Clermont on mandolin and fiddle, Anthony Donahue on electric bass, Ben Little, Liz Frencham and Michael Vidale on upright bass and John Conley and Steve Elphick on double bass, Margaret Lindsay and Mark Bonetti on cellos, Ian Simpson on banjo, Angela Lindsay and Derek Davies on violas, Matt Hanley and John Blenkhorn on guitars.

Track Listing:

  1. Rocket Pilots
  2. How High the Moon
  3. The North Sea Chinaman/The Linguist
  4. Talk to Tony
  5. Holidays for Strings
  6. My Baby Just Cares for Me
  7. Tinker's Way Part 1
  8. Tinker's Way Part 2
  9. Arachnareelia
  10. Down Under/Sakura/Otter's Holt
  11. Stompsville
  12. Get Stuffy
  13. Someday My Prince will Come
  14. Catgut Strut
  15. Split the Difference
  16. George at the Piano
  17. Eine Kleine Nutmusik

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    Eine Kleine Nutmusik

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What the Media have to Say...

'Frenzee'

"This is a wonderful, eclectic, joyous, tumbling, and bouncing album. It is impossible to categorise this music, except to say this. The Musicianship is absolutely stunning, there is a delicious underlying sense of humour, the arrangements are thoughtful and musically Challenging. I loved this album, and I have no doubt that anyone hearing it will be equally entranced and delighted by it."
(Ian Dearden, Trad & Now, Dec 2006).

"Take a bunch of crazy fiddlers, add in some of the best musicians in the country, and you've got a recipe for - well, a musical feast. Frenzee is superbly crafted, brilliantly performed and energy-packed Album that captures everything that makes the Fiddler's Feast such a special group - and one which is sure to continue taking the world by storm over the next few years."
(Susan Jarvis, Capital News, Nov 2006)

 "If you could have only one live band on your desert island, then choose Fiddler's Feast. They are rollicking fun, with plenty of fiddles, and a tight rhythm section playing with precision and power. Frenzee will put a smile on your face and leave you breathless with its high energy, feet tapping, no boundaries repertoire." (Limelight Magazine, Nov 2006)"I defy anyone to not like this CD. The hi-if speakers spark with the fun the band formerly known as Fiddler's Festival had recording it. They tear through a typically bizarre and eclectic mix of jazz, folk, gypsy, country and rock, including a madcap Holidays for Strings. This beats the socks off the Sydney band's previous releases on all levels, the diversity sounding more cohesive and the multi-violin front line, led by Marcus Holden, augmented by guests galore."
(4 Star Review, John Shand, SMH October 2006)

"Frenzee is a superbly crafted, brilliantly performed and energy-packed album that captures everything that makes the Fiddler's Feast a special group."
(Capital News)

"Frenzee reveals Fiddler's Feast as a combo of superbly talented , inventive musicians, whose landscape spans pure Celtic - with violins gloriously dominant. Bold, and it its best, brilliant music-making."
(Bob Crimeen, Sun Herald-Sun, August '06)

"SENSATIONAL!!!! Gonna start playing the set today. Cheers for the copy!"
(David Kennedy, ABC Goldfields-Esperance)

"Fiddler's Feast keep raising the bar - Frenzee is another great release."
(Raymond Phillips, Country Harvest)

"Frenzee is brilliant!! It will be receiving a lot of airplay on Highland FM because it fits into so many categories - jazz, classical, easy listening, even folk. A track that stood out for me was 'Eine Kleine Nutmusik' - the treatment is superbly tongue in cheek and a sound for sore ears. I also love 'Down Under/Sakura/Otter's Holt', 'How High the Moon', 'Someday My Prince Will Come' and will be listening to all tracks many times. I will do all I can to spread the word!"
(Bob Cady, Highland FM) 

"I am impressed with the album and have already began playing it on air.  Next Wednesday Morning (2/8/06) it will feature as our album of the week."
(Trevor Johnson, Country Capers)

"Great album, quite an eclectic mixture - looking forward to giving it some welly!"
(Julie Cavanagh, The Folk Show)

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