Community Corner
WFL Concert: Kathleen Guilday, Harp & Laurel Martin, Fiddle
Kathleen Guilday has been performing traditional Irish music on the harp for nearly 30 years. She has appeared at Boston's Symphony Hall with the popular Irish band, The Chieftains, and entertained President and Mrs. Clinton and Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Ahern at the White House on St. Patrick's Day 2000.
Traditional Irish fiddler, Laurel Martin, learned her music from Seamus Connolly with whom she studied under a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts from 1990-1993. She is an instructor of Traditional Irish Fiddle for the Boston College Irish Studies program and the director of the Fiddleheads ensemble a Wellesley College.