Four-time National Scottish Harp Champion Sue Richards and INDIE Award-winning multi-instrumentalist Robin Bullock have been friends and colleagues for decades and were longtime stalwarts of the Baltimore-Washington area Celtic music scene, where they both won WAMMIE Awards from the Washington Area Music Association for solo albums on the Maryland-based Maggie’s Music label. Now both transplants to the western North Carolina mountains outside Asheville, Sue and Robin celebrate their mountain home and its rich heritage of Scottish and Irish tradition with their duo debut, Highland Ramble: Celtic Music from the Carolina Mountains. A long-overdue chamber-Celtic collaboration between two masters, Highland Ramble blends the ancient and magical tones of the Celtic harp with the powerful resonance of the steel-string guitar, cittern and mandolin, drawing on Scottish, Irish, Swedish and American traditions to create something truly unique: beautiful and timeless, yet fresh and alive.
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