Live! Folklife Concert: Hildaland

Hildaland is a contemporary collage of Scottish and American traditional music. The duo approaches geographic borders as markers of exploration rather than boundaries. Fiddle player Louise Bichan (originally from Orkney, Scotland) and mandolinist Ethan Setiawan (originally from Goshen, Indiana) move from traditional Scottish roots through progressive bluegrass and jazz, with music inspired largely by places and the journeys between them, both physical and musical.

While Hildaland currently call New England home, they maintain a strong connection to the music scene in Glasgow. “We have been lucky to be able to travel back to Scotland fairly often in the past couple of years and plan to continue doing so. We often find ourselves in the Glasgow pubs playing Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian, and even old-time with friends old and new,” says Bichan.

The duo has an unmistakable sound and has refined a specific, innovative voice within traditional music.

Website: http://www.hildaland.com

Concerts are filmed with a 3-camera shoot; excerpts are edited and posted on the Folklife Center YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/thefolklifecenteratcrandallpubliclibrary

A second performance will take place at the partner site in nearby Washington County: the Historic Salem Courthouse, Salem, NY.

Live! Folklife Concerts are hosted and produced by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, funded in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor's office and the New York State Legislature.