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Sassanak Lassies
4+ albums
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"Sassanak" A derivatiive of the Scottish word "Sassenach". We wanted a word that communicates the fact that we play Scottish music, but also that we are not indeed from Scotland. Since Sassenach can mean any place South of Scotland, we addapted the word and made something entirely new by misspelling the original. Lynn Rubier-Capron Lynn is the 2004 Scottish Fiddle champion of the Grandfather Mountain highland games at Grandfather Mountain, N.C. Her Scottish fiddle lineage flows backward through her fiddle teacher: John Turner, 10 time winner of the national Scottish fiddle Championship, to his fiddle master J.T. Hector MacAndrew, backwards through the generations to Neil Gow himself! Lynn won her championship because of the unique qualities she brings to all of her music: Beauty, Intensity and Swing! Lynn learned to pull a deep, rich sound from her violin from her first mentor: Dr. Jerrie Lucktenberg, who graduated from The Curtis School of Music. Lucktenberg passed on to Lynn a passion for the beauty that only the violin can produce. Lynn brings a unique intensity to all of her playing. Whether she is competing at the Scottish games, or performing with Toni, she constantly searches for the most effective interpretation of each phrase that she plays. Folk Arts Director of the Rochester Arts and Cultural Council, Susie Chodorow, finds Lynn’s approach to Scottish fiddle music especially moving because of its intensity and the clarity of her particular Scottish style. Lynn
top songs
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Middling Thank You
452Pease Bridge (ABR. Macintosh)
393Scott Skinner’s Compliments to Dr. McDonald (J.S. Skinner)
384The Collier’s Daughter
365The Rocking Horse of Reeling (John Turner)
366Whistle O’er the Lave O’T (John Bruce)
347Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie
308Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston (Nath. Gow)
299The Old Country Bumpkin
2810Farewell to Whiskey (Niel Gow)
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