The Mari Black Trio brings fiddle-fueled dance music to six Montana towns.
Mari Black, called “one of the brightest fiddlers around today” (Brian O’Donovan, WGBH radio), and her trio bring a rich blend of musical styles to Montana March 21-30.
Her tour brings the trio to Polson March 21, Libby on March 22, Eureka on March 23, White Sulphur Springs on March 27, Belt on March 29 and Seeley Lake on March 30.
Raised in Maine on a rich blend of traditional musical styles, Black burst onto the international stage when she became Scotland’s Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion, two-time U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, and two-time Canadian Maritime Fiddle Champion, all within a three-year period. Ever since then, she has been spreading her love for dance-based music, performing as a featured artist at performing arts centers, Celtic festivals, Scottish Highland Games, celebrated folk venues, world music concert series, and acclaimed classical venues, including Carnegie Hall.
She can even be heard (and seen) in the award-winning video game, BioShock: Burial at Sea.
Black has appeared with such diverse artists as Irish fiddle master Liz Carroll, Americana master Mark O’Connor and jazzman Willie Ruff, and been featured on the BBC Radio Scotland, Fox and CBS morning news programs, and NPR’s “Here and Now.”
She has brought her internationally flavored dance music – Celtic, American, and Canadian fiddling, jazz, tango, klezmer, folk and original works – to venues around the globe.
Having earned her doctorate in education from Columbia University, Black is a master teacher who is dedicated to helping students of all ages and levels explore the joy of making music. In fact, all of her performances in Montana include school and community outreach programs, and several of her students are now becoming champion fiddlers in their own right.
She’s released two albums, her debut titled Flight, and on her most recent, Unscripted, a collaboration with three-time world accordion champion Cory Pesaturo.
Learn more about Black and follow her musical adventures online.