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2015 FESTIVAL ARTISTS Yann Falquet - Acoustic Guitar, Voice, Foot-Tapping, Jaw Harp
A native of Montreal, Quebec, Yann is a founding member of the
Yann Falquet Quebec trad trio Genticorum and toured for three years with the award
winning celtic/world group The McDades. He has taught at the Irish
World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick, at the Goderich Celtic
College and for Alasdair Fraser’s Fiddle Train, as well as Fraser’s venerable
Sierra Fiddle Camp in California. Familiar to standard tunings, alternate
tunings and DADGAD styles, Yann brings much to the musical table in
performance and teaching.

Yann is a veteran acoustic guitar player on the burgeoning Québecois
music scene and likes to explore many styles. Though primarily a
trad player, he holds a Bachelor’s in Jazz Performance. Since his time
in conservatory, he has developed a personal guitar style for Québecois
music, inspired by the music of different cultures including Breton,
Scandinavian, Irish, and North American. His involvement in the
traditional music scene resulted in performing on numerous recordings,
and to regularly tour throughout Canada, the United States,
Europe and Australia.

Christopher Layer Christopher Layer - Flutes and Pipes As a teacher of the flute and
pipes, Chris has worked for Scotland’s Feis Na Gael, in the Scottish
Hebrides, The Augusta National Heritage Center, The Hamish Moore
School of Piping, and countless workshops at music festivals the world over.

Over the last fourteen years, Chris has toured four continents with
the Trinity Irish Dance Company as their principal pipe soloist and
flutist. His father is traditional fiddle great, Edwin Layer, and his mother
is soprano Dolores Layer. Chris played his first professional engagement
at the tender age of eleven. Since then, he has gone on to great success in
the worlds of traditional and classical music at home and abroad. Since
2003, Chris has been the Artist-In-Residence for the Moab Music Festival
in Moab, Utah, teaching there for ten weeks each year, and is the creator of
the Moab Community Dance Band in that rural community.

Layer contributed his arrangements of original and traditional music to
the New York Theater’s production of “Twelfth Night” for Shakespeare
In The Park in New York City, performing onstage with the company. As
a sideman, he has toured, performed, and recorded with many talents in
traditional, classical and modern music, most recently in the Broadway
production of Sting’s “The Last Ship.”

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