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Musician for hire – Have music, will travel
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Jo has performed at venues that range from audiences of
8 to 3,000 in Australia, the US & Scotland. A sampling
of these are the Grass Valley Celtic Festival & Pleasantan
Highland Games, California; National, Port Fairy, Cobargo & Jamberoo
Folk Festivals, Australia; Celtic Connections Festival & Edinburgh
Folk Club, Scotland; in Canberra - Llewellyn Hall, Irish & Southern
Cross Clubs, Merry Muse Folk Club and Tilleys.
She has played with fiddler Alasdair Fraser & the
San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers, flautists Grey
Larsen, Kris Willits & Terry McGee, fiddler Sarah
Davies, accompanists Ben Stephenson, Dave O’Neill
and bands The Perfect Cure, Kilkenny and the
Hudson Bay Company.
Jo is available for bookings at weddings, parties, corporate
functions, dances – any event that requires good
Celtic music and a warm personality. She can offer these
performance options:
- Halliracket – Celtic trio
- Piano – background music, or as an accompanist
(Click here for a sample track.)
- Solo spots on concertina or piano
- Dance band musician for bush or set dancing
An unusual combination highlighting the mouth music and
stepdance of the Gaels, this trio weave and blend instrumental
music, songs and step percussion. With collective performing
and composition experience spanning genres and continents,
this new collaboration brings together Ruth Lee Martin,
Jo Cresswell and Bill Grose to create an aural and visual
feast.
You can hear two tracks from Halliracket's sample CD:
Donald Dhu and Mrs.
Jamieson's Favourite set.
Ruth Lee Martin is a Scottish-born Australian
composer and performer of Scottish folk music. She is a
Lecturer in Music Studies at the School of Music, Australian
National University. Ruth sings an old style of Gaelic
mouth music learnt at her grandmother’s knee as well
as her versions of Scottish and Irish ballads. She adds
an extra dimension with her stirring bodhran playing.
Jo Cresswell
is an exponent of celtic music
and stepdance. She is known
in Australia for her
duos with guitarist Dave O’Neill
(Eric Bogle Band, Bushwackers),
Ben Stephenson (Trouble in the
Kitchen) & fiddler
Sarah Davies (Spoot O Skerry)
she brings to the group haunting
melodies on concertina, contemporary
piano accompaniment and step
percussion.
Bill Grose has
a wealth of experience playing
Celtic Guitar and has a CD with
Scottish fiddler Catherine Fraser.
He spent 10 years in
Darwin absorbing tropical music,
playing with Papua New Guinea
fusion band “Drum
Drum” and collaborating
with Balinese musicians. Bill
has taught guitar and performed
widely in Aboriginal communities.
He is also a skilled player of
gypsy jazz.
jo@jocresswell.com
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