Live! Folklife Concert on the Road: Hildaland

This is the second performance of the band, thanks to the support of our partner site in nearby Washington County — the Historic Salem Courthouse, Salem, NY.

A contemporary collage of Scottish and American traditional music, Hildaland is a duo that approaches geographic borders as markers of exploration rather than boundaries to be wary of. Fiddle player Louise Bichan, originally from Orkney, Scotland, and mandolinist Ethan Setiawan, originally from Goshen, Indiana, have taken their duo from traditional Scottish roots through to 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.

Regardless of their physical or musical location, the duo has an unmistakable sound. In defining their goal within traditional music and refining the scope of their musical territory, Hildaland has honed in on a specific, innovative, and beautiful voice as a band.

www.hildaland.com

Live! Folklife Concerts are hosted and produced by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library thanks to a grant to the Folklife Center from the New York State Council on the Arts supported by the Governor's Office and the New York State Legislature. Concerts are filmed on Thursdays at Crandall with excerpts edited and posted on our YouTube page http://www.youtube.com/thefolklifecenteratcrandallpubliclibrary.