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2015 FESTIVAL ARTISTS

Patrick Ourceau Patrick Ourceau - Irish Fiddle A master Irish fiddler, Patrick
was born in France. He emigrated first to New York City and then
Toronto, Canada. Patrick’s style was influenced early on by the great Irish
traditional fiddlers Paddy Canny, Bobby Casey and Paddy Fahey. Patrick
loves the music and people of County Clare, Ireland and has performed
with his friend and mentor, Paddy Canny, and flute and fiddle player Peter
O’Loughlin. In New York City, Patrick played with Andy McGann, Paddy
Reynolds and others, and was influenced by County Galway flute player
Jack Coen. Patrick is a member of the band Chulrua. He has toured North
America and Europe with a variety of bands and players, including Gearoid
O’hallmhurain, Andrew Mac Namara and the legendary Tulla Ceili band.

Notable recordings include Chulrua: The Singing Kettle, Live at Mona’s
(with Eamon O’Leary and Chris Layer), Long Expectant Comes at
Last (Cathal McConnell), Celtic Roots (John Whelan), Lowlands (Steve
Johnson with O’Leary and Layer), and Geantrai, a TG4 release, celebrating
the first ten years of that traditional Irish music TV program. Patrick founded
Toronto’s Traditional Irish Music School in 2010 with local Uilleann piper
Debbie Quigley.

patrickourceau.com

Mazz Swift Mazz Swift - Violin A native New Yorker, Mazz began violin at
age six, studying with Elisabeth Small, Shirley Givens and Timothy
17 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School Baker. She attended LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, and
while there, played at New York’s AliceTully Hall with members of the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra. She later studied at the Juilliard School of
Music. Mazz’s diverse musical interests in classical, rock, trad music, hip
hop and most recently jazz, have made for a strange and wonderful life
journey. She has worked with a wide variety of artists: Whitney Houston,
Perry Farrell, Dee Snider, James “Blood” Ulmer, Vernon Reid, DJ Logic,
William Parker, Butch Morris, Black Rock Coalition, Jason Lindner,
Kanye West, Common, and Jay-Z.

Her solo alias, “MazzMuse,” has performed at the National Action
Network’s twentieth Annual Keepers of the Dream awards
ceremony for President Obama, on the TODAY Show, NPR’s Weekend
Edition, and for TEDx. In Budapest, Hungary, she is a collaborator for
the project Budapest Bar; the CD “Zene/Music” on Sony Hungary is
double platinum there. She served as Musical Director and Co-Curator
of Fire + Fire = Gypsy Meets Black, a show exploring the musical and
cultural similarities and differences between African-American music and
Hungarian gypsy music. Ms. Swift recently toured West Africa with the
band MATUTO.

mazzmuzik.com