Artist: Caleigh
Genre(s):
Celtic
Discography:
A Caleigh Ceilidh
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
Caleigh, an all-woman ensemble, has four-spot extremely versatile and talented members -- Dee Furfano, Lenore Siems, Deb Steinbar, and April Lawson. Celtic medicine in Bemidji, MN, (and beyond, thanks to the Internet) has benefited from their conjoint performances since 1998.
Dee Furfano performed in musical productions end-to-end midsection and high school, as a choir soloist and madrigal vocaliser as well as playacting percussion section in the Roseau, MN, school band, plus small subservient grouping ensembles. At Bemidji State University she participated in concert choir, chamber singers, children's opera, and the Eurospring educational exchange programme, as well as playacting in Israel with an Europa Cantat festival. In 1981, she standard a bachelor's degree in music and elementary education. She followed that with instruction kindergarten with Ojibwe students on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, and was a 1999-2000 participant and coordinator of a Perpich Center for Arts Education "Theater in the Classroom" cary Grant at the Red Lake school.
In Caleigh, Furfano plays the Irish goatskin brake drum, the bodhran, as well as congas/bongos, spoons, and various percussion instruments, asset the crossover bass.
Lenore Siems' parents gave her a fiddle at age 11, and she's been playing ever since, though she switched over to the viola in tenth gradation, expiration on to perform in the All-State Orchestra. She received a BA in Sociology and Criminal Justice, which lED to work in police force enforcement as a US Customs Inspector, a National Park Ranger, and a Sheriffs Water Patrol Deputy in Minnesota. She later on returned to Bemidji State University to finish a BS level in Music Education with a concentration in K-12 orchestra and classroom medicine.
In addition to playing shrink from, viola, and mandolin with Caleigh, Siems has performed professionally with the Heartland Symphony and the Black Hills Symphony of Rapid City, SD; the Itasca Symphony in Grand Rapids, MN; the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra; and the Amato String Quartet. From 1993-1995 she served as Director of the Itasca Orchestral Society in Grand Rapids, MN. Since 1993, when she was introduced to bluegrass music, she has played in legion monkey festivals and competitions. She has been a U.S. adjudicator for the Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canadian shirk rivalry, as well as director of the Headwaters School of Music and the Arts Fiddle Camp in 1998. Siems is a fellow member of the MN Music Education Assoc. and teaches music in the kindergarten and Early Intervention programs of the Bemidji School District. She also teaches adult fiddle classes.
Deb Steinbar began vocalizing at mob gatherings, and by second level, added piano lessons. Through high school day she was an active accompanyist and church organist. Obtaining degrees in breast feeding and psychology from the University of North Dakota in 1975, she followed this with 2 years as a Peace Corps volunteer nurse in Bahrain. On return to the U.S., she spent 12 years as a wellness precaution professional. Returning to music in 1989, she completed a BA in music at Bemidji State University in 1992 and was a co-recipient of the Carl O. Thompson award recognizing the round top calibrate in instrumental music. She then went on to written report with Dr. Jane Solose at the University of North Dakota and earned a master's degree in medicine in 1994 with a major in piano and minors in articulation and cembalo. Steinbar has also been an active performing artist with the Bemidji Headwaters Trio and a duo-pianist with Sara Bloom, premiering industrial plant by women composers. She holds a MN Music Teachers Association Professional enfranchisement in forte-piano and cembalo and is a National Certified Teacher of Music. She has served as a forte-piano adjudicator for the MMTA and the Lakes Area Federation of Music Clubs. She maintains a private forte-piano studio called La Ricordanza in Cass Lake, MN. From extensive screen background she brings keyboards, mouth organ, tin whistle, and both harmony and pencil lead vocals to Caleigh.
Although April Lawson grew up with music in her life-time, she did non begin pickings music lessons until college. However, she has the ability of readily pick up whatever instrument she tries, and has go good on guitar, harp, keyboard, and percussion, as well as vocals, capably integration these talents into Caleigh. Obtaining a level in Spanish from Bemidji State in 1975, she has since taught it on both high shoal and college levels, as well as traveling widely in Mexico and Spain. She and her family hold likewise served as hosts to many extraneous exchange students. She is retired from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, as substantially. Extremely active mob lives and schedules have coordinative public performances a challenge for Caleigh members, so they tend to decoct on weekly practice roger Huntington Sessions star to studio recordings.
