NEW POWER POINT and HOLONS:
written and arranged by Duncan Wickel
Duncan Wickel- violin
Kata Kozma- wurlitzer
Stuart Lehmann-Brown- bass
Stefan Bildy- Drums
Avi Gunther- Engineer
ICE CREAM MELTS THE RAIN:
written by Stash Wyslouch
Stash Wyslouch- guitar
Duncan Wickel- Fiddle
Dominick Leslie- Mandolin
Samson Grisman- Bass
Pablo Eluchans- Cajon
Avi Gunther- Engineer
EURAIL PASS:
written by Forrest O'Connor
arranged by THE HAY BRIGADE
Forrest O'Connor- Mandolin
Duncan Wickel- Fiddle
Dan Gurney- Button Accordion
Nicky Schwartz- Bass
LEANIN' ON A WALLl:
Written by Derek Powell
Duncan Wickel- Fiddle and Guitar
NARDIS:
Written by Miles Davis
Arranged by DR. MAGPIE
Ben Powell- Violin
Duncan Wickel- Octave Violin
Eric Robertson- Mandolin
Jon Sosin- Guitar
Adam Tressler- Guitar
Dan Carpel- Bass
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THE HAY BRIGADE is:
Duncan Wickel- Fiddle
Dan Gurney- Button Accordion
Forrest O'Connor- Mandolin
Nicky Schwartz- Acoustic Bass www.thehaybrigade.com
THE CATHIE RYAN BAND is:
Cathie Ryan- Vocals and Bodhran
Duncan Wickel- Fiddle, whistles and Uilleann Pipes
Patsy O'Brien- Guitar and Vocals
Matt Mancuso- Fiddle and Vocals www.cathieryan.com
TAPEIRE is:
James Devine- tap dancer, director, producer
Paul Jennings- percussion
Duncan Wickel- fiddle, musical director, composer
Phamie Gow- electric Harp
Brett Maughan- lighting Design
Tim Redfern- visual Design
Tom Cassetta- sound Design / Veejay www.tapeire.com
THE RED WELLIES is:
Beanie Odell- Fiddle
Duncan Wickel- Fiddle
Vincent Fogarty- Bouzuki
www.myspace.com/redwelliesirish
www.cdbaby.com/cd/redwellies
THE AKIRA SATAKE BAND is:
Akira Satake- Banjo and Shamisen
Duncan Wickel- Fiddle
Julia Weatherford- Cello
River Guerguerian- Percussion www.akirasatake.com/music.asp
THE SPORTING PITCHFORKS is:
Duncan Wickel- Guitar, Fiddle and Octave Fiddle
Hannah Seng- Banjo, Vocals, Fiddle
Jack Devereux- Fiddle
Influences
Wether they themselves know it or not, each artist listed here has influenced me as a musician in some way, big or small. This is more than just a list of everyone I have ever listened to, I want to point out that without any single one of them, I would not play compose, imagine or enjoy music in the same way that I do now, and I consider this even if it is in ways that are subconscious to me. From my own experience, I have found learning from past and present encounters with other artists and/or their work is the only way anyone can develop his/her own voice.
In no paticular order:
Jazz, R & B and Beyond:
Medeski Martin & Wood, Soulive/Neal Evans/Lettuce, Playonbrother/Alan Evans, John Scofield, the Greyboy Allstars/Karl Denson/Robert walter, Harvey Mason, St. Germain, Topaz, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea/Return to forever/Stanley Clarke/Al Di Meola, Miles, Trane, Bird, Diz, Monk, Mingus, Duke, Bill Evans, Dave Holland, the Brecker Bros., Wynton Marsalis, Eleventh House/Larry Coryell, Jimmy Smith, Bobby Sparks, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Chris Potter, Jack Dejonnette, Keith Jarret, Marcus Miller, Poogie Bell Band, Patches Stewart, Ivan Neville/the Neville Bros., Snarky Puppy, Nomo, DJ Logic, The Afromotive, Herb Alpert, Weather Report/Jaco Pastorius/Wayne Shorter/Joe Zawinul, George Duke, Passport, Scalpel, Garadge Mahal, Amon Tobin, Tortoise, Gerardo Nuñez/Chano Dominguez, Vince Medoza, Maynard Ferguson, the New Jersey Kings, Fred Wesley, Bootsie Collins, Parlement/Funkadelic, James Brown, the JB's, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Bobby McFerrin, Victor Wooten, Jimi Henderix, Garage a Tois/Charlie Hunter/Stanton Moore/Galactic, The Philadelphia Experiment/Christian McBride the Crusaders, the Beatles, Roy Hargrove/RH factor,
General Strings/Jazz, Bluegrass, Folkish, Etc:
Jean Luc-Ponty, Christian Howes, Billy Contreras, Jeremy Kittel, Alex Hardgreaves, Darol Anger, John Blake, Sarah Caswell, Victor Lin, Turtle Island/Mads Tolling, Rob Thomas, Mark Feldman, Evan Price, Matt Glaser, Casey Driessen, Bruce Molsky, Brittany Haas, Natalie Haas, Mark O'Connor, Frank Vignola, Sam Bush, Django, Stuff Smith, Buddy Spicher, Tristen and Tashina Claridge, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Tracy Silverman, Stephane Grappelli, Tim O'Brien, David Grisman, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, the Kronos Quartet, James Leva, Stuart Duncan, Mark Wood, Mike Barnett, Tyler Randall, Hanneke Cassell.
Irish/Celtic and Beyond:
Liz Carroll, John Doyle, Solas/Seamus Egan/Winfred Horan/Mick McAuley/John Williams/Karan Kasey, Martin Hayes, Tommy Peoples, James Kelly, Randal Bays, Kieran
O'Hare, Liz Knowles, Mick Maloney, Seamus Connoly, David Power, Lunasa/Kevin Crawford/Cillian Valley, Niall Valley, Flook/Brian Finnagan, Michael McGoldrick, Kevin Burke, Frankie Gavin, John Daily, Teada/Osin MacDirmida/Damien Stenson, Dervish, Bahoula, Trian, Michael Coleman, Andy McGann, Paul Brady, Paddy Reynolds, Brian Conway, Tony DeMarco, Patrick Mangan, Paddy Glackin, Robbie Hannon, Jerry Holland, Andy Irvine, Brendan Mulvihill, Charlie Lennon, Ed Reavy, Paddy O'Brien, Dave Corey, The Kane Sisters, Joel Bernstein, Tim Britton, Todd Denman, Eileen Ivers (yes..I DID listen to her as a kid..) Davy Spillane (got to give him credit, too..) Bill Whelan, Jerry O'Sullivan, Liam O'Flynn, Mick O'Brien John McCusker, Bonnie Rideout, John Skelton, Claire Mann, Aidan O'Rorke, Le Vent du Nord, the Chieftains, Wild Asparagus...I'll Get Back to this one
Classical and Semi-Classical composers, performers and educators: Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Philip Glass, Shastakovitch, Samuel Barber, Jean Sibelius, Antonio Vivaldi, Bruch, Carl Orff, Fritz Kristler, Correlli, Handel, Bhrams, John Williams, Joshua Bell, Itzak Pearlman, Issac Stern, Yo Yo Ma, Gidon Kremer, Astor Piazzola, Suzuki, Ravi Shankar, Sandip Burman, L. Shankar, Dr L. Subramaniam and so many others ...I'll get back to this one too...
all the musicians and artists I have collaborated with, been taught, supported and inspired by in the Asheville area and beyond: Beanie Odell, Vincent Fogarty, Juan Venavides and the Cabo Verde crew, Vance Reese, Eliot Wadopian, River Guerguerian, Richard Shulman, Marcus Wickel-my dad, Billy Jonas, Chris Rosser, Pavel Wlosok, Paul Templon, Mary Daniels, Corine Bower, Bill Gearhardt, James Levy, the Pinelli family, Yvette Gearhardt Ronald Cleafield, Ken and Amy LeDÈroute, Al Pettaway and Amy White, Danny Ellis, Akira Satake, Kima Moore, Julia Weatherford, the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, the Asheville Choral Society, Nicholas Kendall, Dr. John Cobb, Susan Hensly, David Stevenson, Fran Mckendree, Ken Cope, Andrew Magill, William Macmorran, the Koal family, Stephanie Johnston, Sean Mason, Linda Elrod, Quinto, Jeff Thomas, John Hermann, Billy Jackson, Kumar Das, Andi Hearn, Davey Mathias, Patrick Sky, Pat Egan, Mark Dixon, Jason Cade, Joe Mohar, Robin Cape, Severine Gaubert-Rasseau, Debra Roberts, Chuck and Heather Taft, August, Kathryn J. Potter, Pam Robbins, Paul Statski, Nancy Terlacpoot & family, the Colekett family, Zac Leger, Alex Ridinger, Jack Devereax, Hannah Seng, Maya and Monica DeVitry, John Grenant, Steve Jameson, Timothy Ballard, Sam and Nathaniel Humphreys...
All the musicians who I have traveled the road with so far: John Doyle, Cathie Ryan, Patsy O'Brien, Brian Melick, Ben Power, Matt Mancuso, Matthew Bell, James Devine, Paul Jennings, Phamie Gow...
The new cats I play, study, listen to and hang with in the Boston area: Dan Gurney, Forrest O'Connor and the Harvard guys, Nicky Schwartz, Bob Bradshaw, Eric Robertson, Nate Leath, Stash Wyslouch, Samson Grisman, Dominique Leslie, Kimberly Frasier, Ben Powell, John Suze, Mike Barnett, Andy Reiner and the whole fiddle barn crowd, Chris Turner, Rachel Maloney, Julia Metcalf, Hannah Read, Andreas Topoj, Jakub Trasak, Amberly Rosen, Bronwyn Bird, Mariel Vandersteel, Lady B, the Peoples Republic, Luke Price, Jake Joliff, Helen Sherrah-Davies, David Goldenburg, Emily Moore, Amy Alvey, Margret Glaspy, Emma Beaton, Wayne Pearcy, Josh Young, Stefan Bidly, Simon H. Madis, Ayumi Ueda, Yumi Sugimoto, Noriko Terada, Start Leman-Brown, John Parto, Eric McDonald, Tim Connell, Natalie Bergman, Chris Davis. The teachers at Berklee: Kevin Barry, David Fiuczynski, Bruno Raburg, Mimi Rabson, Mark Simos, John McGann, Dave Hollander, Julius Williams, Bertram Lehmann, Josh Rosen, Richard DiMuzo, Richard Kress and a ton of others...
"...Considerable talent...Wickel, currently studying jazz violin at the Berklee college of music, is as persuasive in a traditional Irish ballad as he is country fiddling or ripping through cascading classical flourishes or atonal double stops"
-the Boston Globe
"...19-year old Berklee phenom...Wickel proves to be the standout performer, exploring his instrument more in-depth than one might have guessed one could with a fiddle. He plays his violin as fiddle, bass, ukelele, and even scratches it like an 80’s DJ would vinyl. He is doing exactly what artists do best, stretching the boundaries of his sound through experimentation and play."
-EDGE Boston
"Violinist Duncan Wickel sometimes began with a soulful melody that tightened into a reel or a hornpipe or a bluegrass fiddle tune. In his solos he took off into unimaginable cascades of sound and song. With bowing, plucking, rubbing and tickling, he could turn the violin into a whole orchestra."
-The Boston Phoenix
Violinist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Duncan Wickel is quickly gaining recognition for his unique sound and diverse abilities in Irish traditional, classical, jazz, and world fusion idioms. He began studying classical violin at the age of 4. A native of
Asheville, NC, Duncan grew up in a musical family and by age 14 had already been established as one of the most versatile young violinists in the region. By this time he had joined the violin section in the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, and played his first gig alongside renowned guitarist and singer, John Doyle. Duncan has since toured twice with John throughout the northeastern states, featuring special guests concert to concert such as Liz Carroll, Mick Maloney, John Williams, Alison Brown and Gary West. Duncan and John have appeared on PRI’s Mountainstage and collaborated in the studio for Compass records’ ‘The Light and the Half Light’ a solo record by John’s father, Sean Doyle.
In 2007 Duncan became a member of the acclaimed Cathie Ryan Band, a group that tours nationwide and has recently been featured with the New Jersey and Hartford Symphony Orchestras under the direction of Maestro Jeff Tyzik.
Duncan is also featured in James Devine’s Tapeire- a groundbreaking music and dance show which has received rave reviews by major press in the US and UK. Duncan is currently promoting his new band 'the Hay Brigade' [myspace.com/thehaybrigade] and is a student of Christian Howes at the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, MA studying jazz
violin performance.
yo mang, hope your summer is going well. Everything up north is fine and candy. Fiddlefoxx is coming through asheville July 7th to try and play the grey eagle open mic. Let's hang!
TURNER-" RAIN,STEAM AND THE GREAT WEST" CHECK OUT THE KRONKITES ON MY PAGE/MUSIC. ME, MARCUS, MEL, BARB WALKER AND THE CRISTY & DIANE DUO. GOOD POWERPOPUNK."89 MIXED 2002
"May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air."
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