Piper's CrowNamed “Best Acoustic Performer” by City Pages in 2007, Piper’s Crow celebrates the release of Dick Hensold’s solo CD “Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes”. They are joined by cellist Michelle Kinney and violist Ginna Watson.
“Although all four members of this phenomenal Celt band have myriad projects… it is in Piper's Crow that they appear to shine most brightly. The group's ensemble play… is often breathtaking... Each Crow can be counted. Dick Hensold is a master piper with an exquisite touch. Violinist Zack Kline plays sprightly lines, sometimes with a jazz inflection. Karen Mueller provides earthy drive on guitar and bouzouki. And MacKenzie, when not singing, enriches the lush melodies on flute, concertina, and more pipes. Together, the acoustic quartet twist around each other with empathetic agility, feeding off one another's ideas…” –City Pages, Apr 25, 2007 “Best of the Twin Cities”
Hensold has reputation in the piping community as an innovator, and nowhere is this more apparent than on his new CD, “Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes”. The CD is largely original material, and the “big” part of the title comes from the length of some of the pieces and the size of the band required, so for this concert extra strings have been added to facilitate pieces for pipes, flute, violin, viola, cello, and guitar.
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