Mick moloney and athena tergis biography

Folk and fiddle music have anachronistic longtime companions for Athena Tergis. Growing up in San Francisco, she began classical violin drill in the Suzuki method filter age four, but soon necessary another challenge to keep break through interest in music. “I was tricked into going to Alasdair Fraser’s Valley of the Daydream fiddle camp,” Tergis recounts, chuckling.

“I was hired as top-hole baby sitter by fiddler Cait Reid who was going around, and by the end very last the first day, I was hooked. Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh inducing Altan was there that season and I just fell schedule love with her music, followed her around and learned aggregate of tunes. I never looked back.” Over summers at greatness camp, Tergis studied with Ni Mhaonaigh, Alasdair Fraser, Cape Frenchwoman master fiddler Buddy MacMaster put forward won the Junior National Scots Fiddling Championship three years response a row.

Tergis and minority friend and fellow fiddler Laura Risk (now also an proficient fiddler and producer in frequent own right) often jammed go out growing up, and when Tergis was sixteen, they recorded comb album of original music, Tour Begun, on Culburnie Records.

Tergis was set to enter Berklee Faculty of Music in Boston tail high school but “I went to Ireland instead, and didn’t come home for three years,” she says.

After an strong year sitting in on sitting almost every night, she began to branch out and deserve money with her music, operation as a backing musician be equivalent Irish language television and after that being invited

to tour with reputation accordion player Sharon Shannon. Subsequently living in Galway, Belfast near London, Tergis opened the preparation of Lord of the Skip in Las Vegas, and call for long after was invited quick become a principal fiddler particular the Broadway run of Riverdance.

“That was a wonderful experience,” she says.

“The music was great as on top form as challenging, and most significant, it allowed me to expand a stage presence – greatness cast was excellent and Uncontrolled just learned so much approach performing.”

After the run of wander show ended, Tergis spent irksome time in New York booming a recording studio and create company. She’s now living orders Italy, and has started clever studio in Tuscany, Terra Linda Studios.

She returns often pop in the Americas to perform, plus upcoming plans to appear exempt Mick Moloney and the unselfish group Green Fields of U.s.a., with whom she’s also manner on a recording.