"Bagpipes of the World" CD |
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"Bagpipes of the World" CD |
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For information click on cover |
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Sean was the guest of honor at this 1996 event |
| A few of the more noteworty credits accumulated over the years by Sean Folsom are listed below. This list only touches on the highlights - no attempt is made here to cataloge the constant musical activities of Sean over the past three decades. |
| Film Soundtrack: "Northern Lights," a Cinemafest Production directed by Rob Nilson; winner, "Best New Film" at Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, 1979; Sean Folsom on Irish and Northumbrian bagpipes (and his wife Sharon on Irish Harp). |
| Film Soundtrack: "Host of the Air," a 1982 dramatization of a W.B.Yeats poem; Sean Folsom on Irish pipes, Dudelsack and Great Highland bagpipe. |
| Film Soundtrack: "Eroica" (that's the correct spelling...), a computer animation short by Roberto Ziche ( producer & animator) using Kinetex "3D Studio Max" software; winner of the 1998 Silicon Graphics Character Animation Contest; Sean Folsom on Uillean Pipes (in C), playing music composed by Mike Crowley (who also plays whistle, flutes & drums on the soundtrack). The animation is featured on its own web site. |
| Album: "Beautiful Vision," Van Morison (Warner Bros., 1982); Sean Folsom plays Uillean Pipes (in D) on the song "Celtic Ray;" this album was later re-released with different arrangements and musicians. |
| Album: "Lost It In The Surf," Ron Wilson And His Surfaris (Bennet House Records, 1987); Sean plays Irish Pipes (in D) on the song "Moonshine," Great Highland bagpipe on "Louie Louie" and tenor sax on "Lost It In The Surf." |
| Album: "Holy Well," Sheila Na Gig (Cailleach Records, 1985); Sean plays Spanish bagpipes, Irish bagpipes, Scots' Lowland bagpipes, dudelsack (bagpipe), Vielle a Roue (wheel-fiddle), whistle and crwth on this album. |
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1973-74, Santa Rosa, California Highland Games 1975, New Castleton, Scotland Folk Festival 1975, Yorkshire, England Rotherum Folk Festival 1975, County Donegal Ireland Fleadh Ceol Buncrana 1975, Irvine, Scotland Martinmass Folk Festival 1977-78, Novato, Calif. Renaissance Pleasure Faire 1980-82, Fort Mason (San Francisco) Irish Fair (with group Sheila Na Gig) 1982-84, Nortonville, California Black Diamond Mine Folk Festival 1983-84, Ben Lomand, Calif. Highland Fling 1984-93, Los Angeles Irish Fair (with group Sheila Na Gig) 1986-89, San Francisco Bay Area Golden Gate Highland Games 1986-87, Los Angeles Midsummer Dulcimer Festival 1988-89, Columbia, California Folk Festival 1989-94, Monterey, California Christmas in the Adobes 1990, 93,94,97, North Hero, Vermont Northumbrian Pipers' Convention 1992, Albany, New York Old Songs Folk Festival 1992-98, Auburn & Sonora, California, Fire on the Mountain Christmas Fair 1993, Kent, Ohio, Kent State Folk Festival 1993,94,96,97,98, Oakland, California Dunsmuir House Highland Games 1994, Quebec City, Canada Double Reed Festival 1995, Albany, New York District Highland Games 1995-98, San Juan Baptista, California Early Days Festival 1996, Estes Park, Colorado Longs Peak Highland Games 1996, Scapoli, Italy 20th Festa Della Zampogna (guest of honor & flown to Italy by the organizers) 1996, Wainui, New Zealand 21st Canterbury Folk Music Festival 1996-97, Ben Lomand, California Highland Games 1997, 98, San Francisco North Beach Festival (with Ted Anderson on Piffero) 1998, Fresno, California Highland Games 1998, Bakersfield, California Highland Games 1998, Mackerricher State Park (Ft. Bragg, California) Scots Heritage Days 1999, San Francisco, Tionol 1980,81,82,83, University of California at Berkeley Celtic Coloquium (with group Shile Na Gig) 1982,83, San Francisco State Irish Studies 1984 University of San Francisco W.B.Yeats Conference 1985 Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, Washington) Irish Literature Conference 1987 University of California at Santa Cruz Dept. of Ethnomusicology (Prof. John Schlecter) 1988 University of California at Berkeley Dept. of Near-Eastern Studies Open House (Prof. Anne Kilmer) 1993 Kent State (Kent, Ohio) Center For World Music (Prof. Terry Miller) 1996 Dept. of Ethnomusicology, Dunedin, New Zealand (Prof. Henry Johnson) 1996 Dept. of Ethnomusicology, Auckland, New Zealand (Prof. Greg Booth) 1978 San Francisco DeYoung Museum Treasures of Irish Art, 3 months of lectures & concerts (with the group Shiela Na Gig) 1988 Santa Rosa, California Sonoma County Museum Italian Christmas Exhibition 1997 Fort Mason (San Francisco) Museo Italo-Americano Zampognas Lecture/Demonstration (with Ted Anderson on Piffero) 1984 Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey, California) Grand Opening 1996 Monterey Bay Aquarium Outer Bay Opening 1984 Monterey Bay Aquarium 5th Aniversary of Monterey Bay Ocean Sanctuary 1970-1999 Uncounted weddings, funerals, memorial services, openings, arrivals, departures, private parties, commercial events, corporate meetings, school functions, charity events, boat launchings, birthdays, aniversaries, and so on and so forth..... |