Maeve Gilchrist Comes To The Cutting Room 4/1

New York jazz lovers are in for a special treat when Edinburgh-native Maeve Gilchrist and her Quartet make their debut at The Cutting Room on Tuesday, April 1, at 9:45 PM. A musician and composer, Maeve's dazzling harp playing and haunting vocals have enchanted audiences all across Europe and North America.

Maeve will be playing with a quartet that blends her Scottish roots and jazz influence with Latin American rhythms, creating a unique and multi-cultural sound. Maeve is joined by Argentinean-born Andres Rotmistrofsky on bass, Nick Faulk on percussion and John Delucia on woodwinds.  Her debut CD, entitled "Reaching Me," has just been released and is available now at CD Baby!

Maeve Gilchrist was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. Surrounded by traditional music from an early age, Maeve began playing piano at seven and picked up the clarsach (celtic harp) a couple of years later. At age ten, Maeve enrolled in the City of Edinburgh Music School where she studied classical piano while continuing to nurture her traditional roots. She soon became an in-demand member of the traditional music scene in Scotland, balancing her school work with gigs and rehearsals around the country.

 After appearing on The Stevie Wonder Tribute Show, she began playing and recording with such artists as Matt Glaser, Kathy Mattea, Meshell Ndegio Cello, Jamey Haddad, Martyn Bennett, Frank Ferrell, The Unusual Suspects and Skatash.

Maeve plays a Paddy Cafferky harp from Galway in Ireland and a Frank Sieveri electric acoustic "Silmarill III" from Germany. In her performances, she also plays the clarasch, or celtic harp, and ancient instrument used traditionally in the music of both Scotland and Ireland. Although more often used for strictly modal music, modern musicians, including Maeve, are starting to experiment with the instrument, using its set of semitone levers. Maeve uses the levers to allow her to explore the harmonic range of the instrument fully while dampening and bending the strings to create rhythmic vamps similar to that of a pianist or guitarist.

 

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