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Bio
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Anita LaFranchi
Stewart
plays fiddle and guitar, and sings traditional songs from the British
Isles and America. He plays in Irish sessions and performs at open mics
and other venues, including Northwest Folklife Festival.
His musical education began with piano lessons at age 7 and classical
violin at 8. During high school he gave up violin, bought his first
guitar and began to sing. He studied
voice at Pomona College and the University of Illinois while majoring
in Chemistry. He taught Chemistry at St. Olaf College (Minnesota)
for
28 years and was active in the Northfield Arts Guild, singing lead
roles in summer musicals and opera workshops. He moved to Seattle in
1996 as research professor at the University of Washington, and
picked up the violin again to become a fiddler. He later retired to
begin
a new career as an unemployed folk musician (something he can now
afford!).
With Victory Music he helped set up open mics and an acoustic music venue in
north Seattle, and writes a monthly column, Musical Traditions, for
the Victory Review. He is a member of the Haller Lake Arts Council and chair of their Performing Arts Committee. He has produced two CDs: “Paddy Graber – The Craic
Was Great” (2004), songs by an Irish traditional singer and story
teller from Vancouver, B. C.; and “Songs of the Pacific Northwest”
(2005), original and traditional songs of the Pacific Northwest sung by
various regional musicians.
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