WIND & FIRE: MARK HOLLAND & N. SCOTT ROBINSON - PHOTOS
WIND & FIRE BIO
Wind & Fire features Mark Holland, one of the USA's most innovative Native American & world flute performers, with world percussionist extraordinaire N. Scott Robinson. Together their masterful concert performances astound audiences across the USA. Both skilled musicians and effective teachers, they tour as a unique duo of flutes and world percussion giving concerts and a special workshop on and how to play flute & world percussion together. They also teach private lessons on flute & world percussion while touring.
Their work has been featured on the Public Radio International show Echoes and its live Living Room Concerts, hosted by John Diliberto. Their music has been featured on 2 previously released CDs by Autumn's Child entitled In Performance and Progressive World. Winthin 7 months of its release, Wind & Fire by Mark Holland & N. Scott Robinson was voted 163 in the Echoes 20th Anniversary Listener Poll of Best 200 CDs of 20 Years of Echoes programming on Public Radio International.
Their new duo CD Wind & Fire was released in April 2009 for their Spring, Summer & Fall tour of the USA.
Mark Holland's & N. Scott Robinson's stunning new CD, Wind & Fire, easily their best work, has reached new heights in the world music / Native American flute / jam band scenes.
Mark Holland's evocative melodies and improvisations feature him on an array of 20 flutes including Native American (single & dual chambers, Anasazi) and world flutes such as the Indian bansuri, Chinese dizi, and the Andean quena.
N. Scott Robinson's fiery improvisations and colorful rhythmic textures feature him on a diverse variety of 30 musical instruments including frame drums (Irish bodhran, Indian kanjira, Azerbaijani ghaval, Arabic riqq), African finger pianos (Zimbabwean mbira dza vadzimu & Central African sanza), Brazilian berimbau (musical bow), Indian tabla, Tuvan overtone singing, melodic vocals, Brazilian caxixi, Milltone metal slit drum, Australian didjeridu, donso ngoni (harp from Mali), hindewhu (Central African Pygmy whistle), and a variety of world percussion.
A real musical breakthrough in their duo work together - thoughtful compositions and inspiring improvisations with stunning production and packaging offering audiences their unique and original musical voice full of accessible depth, breadth, and beauty.
INDIVIDUAL BIOS:
MARK HOLLAND BIO
Mark Holland is considered by many authorities on the Native American flute to be among the top flutists performing and recording today. Leader and founder of his other ensemble Autumn's Child, Mark Holland has been called, "the Jimi Hendrix of the Native American Flute." His unique approach and usage of the flute along with his technical skills brings about such comparisons. Through his various ensembles such as Autumn's Child, Wind & Fire, and Reflections, Holland showcases the versatility of the Native American flute, creating a new acoustic instrumental fusion, an eclectic sound
that is truly one of a kind. Mark Holland started Autumn's Child in 1995 and began his publishing and record label, Cedar n Sage Music in 1997. He has recorded 16 CDs of his own music to date. Holland has a B.A. in Music from the University of Missouri where he studied with two members of the Saint Louis Symphony.
Mark Holland is known for his unique soulful style of "playing from the heart." Holland has been a featured artist at three International Native American Flute Association Conventions in Kent, Ohio and Taos, New Mexico, Belmont, California, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He has also been a guest artist appearing at Musical Echoes Flute and Art Festival in Fort Walton, Florida, Zion Canyon Flute and Art Festival in Zion Canyon National Park, Utah, Potomac Native Flute Festival in Rockville, Maryland, Flower Mound Native Flute Retreat in Texas, Chippewa Valley Flute Retreat in Michigan, and the Magic Valley Flute Festival in Idaho. Holland has recorded some tracks for a future PBS documentary, Redemption Road and has also appeared as a guest on Capitol recording artist Chris Ledoux's CD Horsepower.
Mark also recorded a feature profile as well as three live concerts on John Diliberto's Echoes on Public Radio International. A live version of Mark's composition, "The Distance Between" is included on the CD Bridges: Living Room Concerts Vol. 9 from Echoes. His CD Visions & Dreams was voted 15 in the Top 25 CDs for 2005 for the Echoes listener's poll. It was also nominated for an Indian Summer Music Award 2006. Mark's solo flute CD For Such A Time As This was voted 23 in the Top 25 CDs for 2004. It was also nominated for an Indian Summer Music Award 2005. The Autumn's Child CD Four Winds was nominated for a Native American Music Award in 2004 and their CD Progressive World was voted 12 in the Top 25 CDs for 2002 and was a finalist for World Music CD for Just Plain Folks Music Awards 2006. For more about Mark Holland, please visit http://www.autumnschild.com.
N. SCOTT ROBINSON BIO
World percussionist N. Scott Robinson brings an enormous breadth of diverse experience in ethnic percussion traditions to the stage and the classroom. Currently teaching world musics as well as American and popular music at Towson University in MD, he has performed with a long list of instrumentalists, composers, vocal artists and ensembles, including Benny Carter Big Band, The Cleveland Orchestra, Glen Velez, Marilyn Horne, Paul Winter Consort, John Cage, George Crumb, Annea Lockwood, Howard Levy, Malcolm Dalglish, Autumn's Child, Gerald Alston, and Jeanie Bryson, among others. Robinson’s music has been released on 2 CDs by the German label United One (World View-1994 & Things That Happen Fast-2001), his instructional video was published by Wright Hand Drum (Hand Drumming: Exercises for Unifying Technique-1996), and 15 scores of his compositions have been published by HoneyRock Publishing (2003) and New World View Music-BMI (2004/2009). He earned his BA degree in music at Rutgers University and graduate degrees in ethnomusicology & musicology at Kent State University. His music has been featured on John Diliberto's Echoes on Public Radio International, among others. For more about N. Scott Robinson, please see http://www.nscottrobinson.com.
MARK HOLLAND & N. SCOTT ROBINSON - PHOTOS OF 2009 TOUR
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