Nashville Fiddler Barbara Lamb
To perform at the Pendleton Center for the Arts
2/19/10
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Date: Friday, February 19th
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Pendleton Center for the Arts, 214 N. Main, Pendleton, Oregon 97801
Tickets: $8 for adults and $3 for youth 12 and under
Nashville Fiddler Barbara Lamb will be performing at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on Friday, February 19th in an all-ages solo concert. Tickets are now on sale for the 7 pm show. Barbara Lamb picked up the violin when she was eight years old in Seattle, WA. Her father was a music teacher and “it just seemed like the thing to do”. After taking somewhat grueling classical violin lessons for three years, her teacher "fired" her because she’d learned a tune by ear.
“I really just wanted to play by ear and by feel”, says Lamb.
She saw her first live bluegrass band when she was twelve knew right then that she had to be a bluegrass fiddler. In 1975 she and fiddler Vivian Williams and recorded an album of twin fiddle tunes called Twin Sisters. She remembers carrying around the large vinyl records every day at school, selling them.
When Lamb was 14 she won the WA State contest and the NW Regional contest, both in the junior (under 18) division, at the National Old Tyme Fiddle Championship in Weiser, ID and placed fourth in the Nationals
In 1980, performing with the band Ranch Romance, she toured with k.d.lang during her Torch and Twang tour. They later signed with Sugar Hill Records, releasing two band albums. In 1992 she signed with Sugar Hill Records on her own, released Fiddle Fatale produced by Tim O’Brien in 1993 and moved to Nashville, TN to pursue the life of a freelance/touring/studio musician in 1994. She went on the road with The Sweethearts of the Rodeo and did session work for The Riders in the Sky.
In the summer of 1994 she joined the western swing band Asleep At The Wheel and moved to Austin, TX. She met and performed with a lot of her heros, including Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and Bruce Hornsby. She recorded with swing fiddle king Johnny Gimble, played on a Grammy winning record, danced with Robert Duvall and made shots of espresso on a moving tour bus without holding onto anything
This solo show is really a one woman band. Lamb uses looping gear, lots of hand percussion instruments, body parts as drums, an electric kalimba, wine glasses, her fiddle and her voice to create audio sculptures.
Lamb will be working with students from the Pendleton Public Schools while she visits the northwest in addition to her performance. The event is made possible through the generous support of The Center for Women & the Family. In addition to covering costs to keep ticket prices low, they are providing a number of complimentary tickets for students studying fiddle and violin.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $3 for youth 12 and under and can be reserved by calling 541-278-9201.
Contact:
Pendleton Center for the Arts
214 N. Main, Pendleton, Oregon 97801
541-278-9201
email: info@pendletonarts.org
website: http://www.pendletonarts.org
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